MEMORIALS
F. Claiborne Johnston Jr. ’64
Jay died March 31, 2025, in Raleigh, N.C., after two years of a debilitating illness. He was a lifelong resident of Richmond, Va. Jay graduated…
Thomas H. Ferrer ’64
Tom died Feb. 17, 2025, surrounded by his family at his home in Charlotte, N.C., from Parkinson’s disease and heart failure. He was born in…
Robert Schirn ’63
Bob died April 12, 2025. He was born at sea to Jewish refugee parents on one of the last passenger ships leaving Europe during World…
Uldis Kordons ’63
Odie died Jan. 22, 2025, in an assisted-living home near Cincinnati. Ginny, his wife of 58 years, said he had suffered for three years with…
Christopher D. Kelly ’63
Chris, a parish priest in the Episcopal Church for over 50 years, died of cancer March 15, 2025, at home in West Palm Beach, Fla…
William L. Focht ’63
Bill died Jan. 11, 2025, after a long illness. A native of Syracuse, N.Y., he came to Princeton from Garden City High School. The recipient…
Peter M. Eisenberger ’63
Peter, a pioneering physicist and environmental visionary, died Feb. 5, 2025, in San Francisco upon returning from a holiday in Mexico. He lived in Elk…
Richard Rosner ’62
Dick, a pioneering doctor whose writing and practice helped to establish the field of forensic psychiatry, died Jan. 6, 2025. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln…
Arthur B. Monroe ’62
Arthur died Nov. 10, 2024. He suffered from Parkinson’s disease for several years. He came to Princeton from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia. Arthur was…
Edmund H. Gaunt Jr. ’62
Ned died in Duluth, Minn., April 13, 2025. He graduated from Red Bank (N.J.) Regional High School, where he was president of his class in…
Frank G. Wisner ’61
The class suffered a major loss when Frank died of lung cancer Feb. 24, 2025, in Mill Neck, NY. Born in New York City, he…
Christopher F. Pool ’61
Kit died July 22, 2024, at home in Kennett Square, Pa. Born in New York City, he came to us from St. Paul’s School. At…
Memorial PAWcasts
Remembering Hendrix Niemann ’73
‘A relationship with Drix, even in business, it was personal. You couldn’t be with him ... and not treat it as a friendship that you either wanted to develop or…
Remembering Richard Springs III ’64
Dick was ‘a philosophy major playing football, which always bemused our father enormously. Or maybe a football player
majoring in philosophy ... ’ — Lanny Springs ’64
Remembering Bill Miller ’55
"When Bill was at Elm Club, as an undergraduate, he wasn’t especially remarkable. As a person in the landman field, I don’t think he was especially remarkable there. But he…
Remembering Jennifer Parmelee ’80
“Jenni had the deepest sense of responsibility to give back and to do good and to support the little guy. … as time went on, she never lost that sense…
Remembering Victor Brombert
“Brombert was very concerned that I talk about his love of teaching. He said, ‘My love isn’t war, it’s teaching and I hope you’ll find a place to mention that,’…
Remembering Karl Hummel ’67
“What’s unique about Karl is he represented all these great, broad, national economic and management and philosophy trends. He touched on every one of them. I don’t know many other…
Remembering Isabella De La Houssaye ’86
‘We had a rule. You can’t compare yourself to Isabella because fool’s errand. But whatever race you were on, you always could push yourself further thinking of her and thinking…
Remembering Ernie T. Pascarella ’65
‘Just so that everybody knows, this was one outstanding guy in every way,’ said Cosmo Iacavazzi ’65
Remembering Joe Schein ’37
Joe Schein ’37 the oldest living alum in Princeton's history at the time of his death. He carried the 1923 Silver Cane eight times at the P-rade during Reunions.
PAW IN PRINT
July 2026
Architect Tod Williams ’65 *67 reflects on the Obama Presidential Center; rain and revelry at Reunions.
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