MEMORIALS
William Kennedy Cromwell III ’46
In our 50th reunion yearbook, Ken Cromwell wrote, “My last Foreign Service assignment was as foreign affairs adviser to the commandant of the U.S. Coast…
William C. Douglas ’45
William Douglas died March 6, 2013, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Bill entered Princeton from the Hotchkiss School, following in the footsteps of…
Robert L. Dwight ’45 *46
Bob Dwight, engineer and conservationist, died March 22, 2014. After Pearl Harbor, Bob enlisted in the Navy V-12 program, pursuing engineering at Cornell and midshipmen’s…
William R. Crosbie ’45
Bill died Oct. 21, 2013. He entered Princeton from Suffield Academy after his parents moved to Massachusetts from Cuba, where Bill was born and raised…
Robert W. Marks ’45
Bob Marks died July 6, 2013. Bob entered Princeton from the Kiski School in Pennsylvania, following in the footsteps of his brothers Wilson ’36 and…
Charles B. Gordon ’44
Charlie died Aug. 30, 2014, at home on Singer Island, Fla. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School, and at Princeton he roomed at different times…
Henry Hilliard ’43
Hank died Feb. 1, 2014, in Cumberland Foreside, Maine. He prepared for Princeton at St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H. He had a lifelong attachment…
Richard Myrick ’43
Dick died Feb. 2, 2012, in Santa Barbara, Calif. He came to Princeton from the Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., where he was on the…
John C. Laflin ’43
The class lost a true and devoted supporter when “The Hacker” died Feb. 3, 2012. Jack was our class secretary for 27 years, during which…
James R. Arnold ’43 *46
Jim died Jan. 6, 2012, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Between 1969 and 1973, when astronauts returned from the moon with a trove of rocks…
Howard Robinson ’43
Howie Robinson died Dec. 9, 2011, in Grosse Pointe, Mich. He prepared for Princeton at Cranbrook School, where he was on the soccer and hockey…
W. Gardiner Young ’43
Gard Young died Feb. 3, 2012, at Edgewood Manor in Farmington, Maine. He left Princeton in February of our junior year to enlist in the…
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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