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Ernest Courier ’51

Mort was born Jan. 21, 1930, in Brunswick, Ga., to E.P. and Louise Stephens Courier. Mort graduated from Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H. At…

William John Cobb ’51

Bill was born Feb. 9, 1928, in Walton, N.Y., to Russell and Gertrude Sawyer Cobb. After high school he served in the Navy for a…

John Ball Bunnell ’51

John was born May 18, 1929, in Summit, N.J., to Richard and Dorothy Becker Bunnell. He came to Princeton from Jonathan Dayton Regional High School…

Robert Pierce Bodine Jr. ’51

Bob was born Dec. 9, 1929, in Trenton, N.J., to Robert and Edith Nicely Bodine. A graduate of Trenton Central High School in 1947, he…

Hewitt F. Ryan ’50

Hew, as we knew him, died May 23, 2017, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Hew graduated from Woodberry Forest. At Princeton he participated in Theatre Intime, worked…

Robert E. Dougherty ’50

Bob died April 9, 2017, in Princeton, N.J., where he was raised and lived all of his life except for prep school at Exeter and…

John Pemberton III ’49

Jack died Nov. 30, 2016, in Amherst, Mass., his home for more than 50 years. He lived a rich, full, and rewarding life — more…

Richard D. Mercer ’49

Dick died March 23, 2017, in Vero Beach, Fla., just 11 days after his 90th birthday. Born March 12, 1927, Dick served in the Marines…

Augustín E. Edwards ’49

Gus Edwards, a Chilean who transferred to Princeton in 1947 and graduated in 1949, died in Chile April 24, 2017, following complications from an operation…

George T. Whittle ’48

George was born Jan. 1, 1927, in Lakewood, N.J. He was a distinguished genito-urological physician and surgeon. He was a champion ocean-racing sailor along the…

B. David Hostetter ’48

David died July 22, 2014, in Rochester, N.Y. He was a Presbyterian minister and religious educator. (Most of the information we have about him is…

Edgar George Gordon Jr. ’46

In his autobiography for our 50th-reunion book, Ed wrote, “My greatest satisfactions in life have come from a variety of sources: meeting intellectual challenges, community…

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