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Jim Lebenthal ’49

Jim died Nov. 14, 2014, after 86 frantically busy years. You could not be near Jim without feeling his energy and enthusiasm, and somehow, no…

W. Barklie Henry ’49

Barklie died Oct. 29, 2014. He was born Nov. 18, 1927, in New York City and was raised on Long Island. Barklie came to Princeton…

Charles J. Hahn ’49

Jack died Feb. 24, 2014, at his home in Buffalo, N.Y. He came to Princeton from the Lawrenceville School and majored in basic engineering. Jack…

Otto Emil Lohrke Jr. ’46

In 1968, when a job change took Zeke from New Jersey to San Francisco, he and his family all became (in his words) “ardent Californians.”…

Jacob D. Bekenstein *72

Jacob Bekenstein, the Michael Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who revolutionized the study of black holes, died, unexpectedly…

Abner E. Shimony *62

Abner Shimony, who earned doctorates in philosophy and physics and was a professor in both fields, died Aug. 8, 2015. He was 87. Shimony graduated…

Arnold Brooks *56

Arnold Brooks, a retired technology manager at the General Electric Co., died July 24, 2015, at the age of 89. Brooks graduated from Columbia with…

James M. Hund *54

James Hund, retired professor emeritus of management at Emory University, died Sept. 13, 2015, at the age of 93. Hund graduated from Amherst College in…

Hartley Rogers Jr. *52

Hartley Rogers, professor emeritus of mathematics at MIT, died July 17, 2015, at age 89. Rogers graduated from Yale in 1946 with a bachelor’s degree…

Kelly B. Sponberg ’98

Kelly died Aug. 28, 2015, in Silver Spring, Md., of cancer. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and later moved to Bentonville, Ark. Kelly…

John Briggs ’83

John died June 12, 2015, shortly before his 53rd birthday. Born in Memphis, Tenn., John prepared for Princeton at Milton Academy, where he was an…

John R. Hare ’79

John died May 17, 2015, in New Haven, Conn., after a lengthy illness. John, known to many as “Jay,” came to Princeton from The Taft…

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