MEMORIALS
Charles Claxton Cowing ’39
Charlie died Feb. 20, 2001, of heart disease, which he had had since his first cardiac attack in 1985. According to Marion, his wife of…
Richard Howard Demaree ’39
Dick died at home in West Long Branch, N.J., on Mar. 6, 2001, after a lengthy illness. From the day he opened his practice in…
Gardner Fordyce Gillespie Jr. ’39
"Spider" died Mar. 25, 2001, of post-polio syndrome at a hospital near his assisted living home in Chester, Conn. He had been having trouble walking…
Wallace Wylie Judd ’39
Wylie died Feb. 5, 2001, of a massive heart attack. He and Vera, his wife of 61 years, had just moved in November to Adamstown…
Richard Bernard Wathen ’39
Dick died Mar. 14, 2001, near his longtime summer residence in Maine. Born in Jeffersonville, Ind., he served for 18 years in that state's legislature…
John Stanley Bell ’39
After a year of illness, John died of a massive stroke on Feb. 13, 2001, in Milwaukee, where he had lived all his life. After…
George Burnham Calkins Jr. ’39
Burnie died at a hospital near his home in Bethesda, Md., on Feb. 16, 2001, following a stroke. A mechanical engineer, he exercised his skills…
William Cleever Darcy Jr. ’39
Bill died Dec. 30, 2000. For many years he and his wife, June, had divided their time between their home in Rochester, Minn., and at…
Nelson Pierce James ’39
Nels died Nov. 5, 2000, in Kirkwood, N.Y. For many years he had been the owner of his own travel bureau serving the area in…
Louis Petito ’39
Lou died Jan. 26, 2001, at a health care center in St. Petersburg, Fla., near his home in North Redington Beach, where he and Estelle…
William Henry Lippitt ’39
Bill died Dec. 8, 2000, at Candler Hospital in Savannah, where he had practiced general surgery for 35 years before he retired in 1982. After…
Frederic Leake Jr. ’39
Ted died July 7, 2000, in Beaufort, S.C., where he had moved after he retired from a 40-year association with NL Industries (National Lead) located…
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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