MEMORIALS
Nicholas Holt ’49 *52
Nick died of Pick's disease April 10, 2006. He was 78. He prepared for Princeton at the Putney School and majored in the humanities as…
H. Freeman Matthews Jr. ’49
Free, a retired Foreign Service officer, died at Sibley Hospital July 22, 2006, of renal failure. He was 78. He had been a resident of…
Jack H. Oppenheimer ’49
Jack died April 16, 2006, after a long illness. He was 78. He prepared for Princeton at East Orange (N.J.) High School and majored in…
Joseph Patrick Oconnor ’49
WHEN JOE O'CONNOR died Aug. 23, 1991, following emergency bypass surgery, the Class lost one of its most buoyant spirits. How he remained that way…
Seward Groves Byam. Jr. ’49
SEWARD "TAD" BYAM, a financial executive, died June 3, 1991. Tad was born in Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 9, 1928, and prepared for college at Tower…
William Vroom Adams ’49
BILL "ACE" ADAMS passed away Jan. 23, 1991, of advanced arterial disease. Bill was born in N.Y.C. Nov. 8, 1927, and grew up in Ridgewood…
Donald Maclaren Simmons Jr. ’49
DON DIED May 7, 1991, in Tucson, of complications from emphysema. He was born Aug. 13, 1922, in Sewickley, Penn., and prepared for college at…
Roy Taylor Ellegard ’49
FOLLOWING A VALIANT 18month battle against inoperable colon cancer, Roy died Mar. 12, 1991. Roy was born in Hartford, Conn., may 26, 1927, and graduated…
Robert Gumalia Gallagher ’49
BOB DIED Mar. 12, 1991, at Flagler Memorial Hospital, Bunnell, Fla., of complications from emphysema. He was born Nov. 3, 1924, in Albany, N.Y., and…
William Raymond Hilliard ’49
BILL HILLIARD passed away in St. Joseph's Hospital, Lexington, Ky., July 1, 1990, of pancreatic cancer that had been diagnosed only four weeks earlier. Bill…
James Hartman Blessing ’49
JIM DIED of cardiopulmonary arrest, brought on by postpolio syndrome Dec. 17, 1990, at his home in Washington, D.C. Born June 13, 1928 in Philadelphia…
Francis Xavier Houghton ’49
WE LOST Francis Houghton, "X" to many of us, to a sudden heart attack suffered at his Manhattan home Oct. 3, 1990. Francis was born…
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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