MEMORIALS
Jack W. Bredenberg ’37
BEER BARON and golf and gin rummy expert Jack Bredenberg, who had progressed to playing golf again after having a knee replacement in 1991 and…
Harold B. Spencer ’37
MINING ENGINEER and bird watcher Bebe Spencer died Dec. 17, 1993, of emphasema, leaving five children and seven grandchildren. He came from a large Princeton…
John Meirs ’37
STRUCTURES ENGINEER and enthusiastic Princetonian John Meirs died Nov. 1, 1993, leaving a host of friends. He had been in declining health since suffering a…
William B. Kline ’37
WE HAVE JUST LEARNED that sales engineer Bill Kline died July 28, 1990. As of 1966, he had a daughter Billie, with a master's degree…
Edward Potter Lebens ’37
GENTLE GIANT ED LEBENS died of lung cancer on Sept. 11, 1993. He was a retired director and V.P. of The First Boston Corp., NYC…
Richard B. Wilder ’37
DICK WILDER, enthusiastic Princetonian, tank destroyer, old car buff, handsome model, and outdoor advertising executive, died in his sleep in Naples, Fla., Sept. 20, 1993…
John R. Fales ’37
SUPERB OCEANSAILING racer and yacht builder Johnny Fales died July 20, 1993, after having been on dialysis for three years, leaving his wife of 55…
Lester A. Collins ’37
MAGNIFICENT landscape architect Les Collins died July 7, 1993, of cancer, leaving his wife of 47 years, Petronella, and a son, Oliver. Daughter Abigail and…
William L. Dyson ’37
LANKY, FRIENDLY Dutch Dyson, ardent golfer and one of the first to use lithium to treat manic-depressive illness, died May 12, 1993. He left his…
Edward E Beale ’37
WHIMSICAL, TALENTED, expert bridge player Ned Beale died Apr. 28, 1993, of emphysema. He was married just short of 50 years to wife Peggy (Allen)…
George Ii Brown ’37
GEORGE BROWN, grandson of King Kamehameha's prime minister, died in a nursing home in Hawaii Apr. 28, 1993. His wife, Julia, died in 1987, as…
Richard P. Parsons Jr. ’37
LIFELONG FAN of steamengine trains, Dick Parsons died July 18, 1992, of cancer. He is survived by four sons, Rick, Peter, Jonathan, and Billy; two…
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.
PAW IN PRINT
July 2026
Architect Tod Williams ’65 *67 reflects on the Obama Presidential Center; rain and revelry at Reunions.
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