MEMORIALS
Dean G. Abercrombie ’47
Dean died June 18, 2015. After graduating from George School in Newtown, Pa., he served as a paratrooper in the Army from July 1943 to…
John R. Colver ’45
Jack died Feb. 2, 2014. He entered Princeton from Tenafly (N.J.) High School, following in the footsteps of his father, Frederic 1910, and joined Campus…
Howard O. Allen ’43
Howie died Nov. 6, 2015, of complications from cardiac and pulmonary disease. He came to Princeton from Episcopal High School in Arlington, Va. Howie’s family…
Robert Meckauer ’40
Bob died Jan. 26, 2016, at his home in Roseville, Calif. He grew up in Larchmont, N.Y., and prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he…
Hendryk S. Weeks ’39
Hank — one of the five who came back for our 75th reunion in 2014 — died Jan. 12, 2016, in Montclair, N.J. He was…
Francis W. Nelson ’39
Frank died Dec. 7, 2015, in Granville, Ohio. He was 97. Frank interrupted his 15 years of living in Greenwich Village (from 1939 to 1954)…
George M. Elsey ’39
George, an adviser to President Harry Truman and former Red Cross president, died Dec. 30, 2015, in Tustin, Calif., with his daughter, Anne, by his…
Harold Van Buren Richard ’36
Van died Aug. 27, 2015, in his beloved summer home in York Harbor, Maine, at age 100. Van was raised in New York City and…
T. Scott Jones ’36
Scott died in his sleep Nov. 2, 2015, in Hinsdale, Ill., at age 101. His family dressed him in his Princeton blazer and tie after…
Gregory V. Leftwich *87
Gregory Leftwich, a scholar of classical art and archaeology, died Dec. 13, 2015, at age 64. Leftwich graduated from NYU in 1973, and after independent…
George M. Tronsrue Jr. *66
George Tronsrue, retired Army colonel, died Dec. 30, 2013, at age 83. Tronsrue graduated from West Point in 1952. After tours in the United States…
Herbert E. Scarf *54
Herbert Scarf, the Sterling professor of economics emeritus at Yale, died of heart failure Nov. 15, 2015, at the age of 85. In 1951, Scarf…
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.
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