MEMORIALS
Irving A. Portner ’52
Irv came to Princeton from Harrison High School in Chicago. He worked on The Daily Princetonian for four years, ending as editorial co-chairman. He joined…
L. Ebersole Gaines Jr. ’51
Eb was born April 21, 1927, in West Virginia to Betty Chilton and L. Ebersole Gaines Sr. 1916. He attended Lawrenceville and served two years…
Charles R. Biggs ’50 *51
Charlie died Nov. 2, 2012, at the Winchester (Va.) Medical Center. He was a resident of Berkeley Springs, W.Va. After graduating from Wilmington (Del.) Friends…
David S. Bingham ’50
Dave died Dec. 21, 2012, in Holyoke, Mass., after a long affliction with Alzheimer’s disease. He graduated from Westfield (N.J.) High School in 1944, and…
Arthur V. Savage ’48
Art died Dec. 26, 2012. He was born in New York City, and grew up in Morristown, N.J. Art and Harriet (“Hat”) lived all their…
T. Scott Fillebrown ’48
Scott was a lifelong prominent community and church leader in the Nashville, Tenn., area. He died Dec. 26, 2012, in Nashville after an extended illness…
John A. Pell ’48
John died Dec. 10, 2012, in Princeton. He was 86. John’s career as a senior executive in international commercial and merchant banking took him from…
William Granger Blair ’47
Bill Blair died of cancer Nov. 19, 2012, in New York City, where he lived all his adult life except for New York Times stints…
Robert C. Specht ’44
Bob died Jan. 6, 2013, in Falmouth, Mass., a day after his 90th birthday. At Princeton he majored in biology, roomed with Bob Deming and…
Lowell Huntington Brown Jr. ’41
Hunt died Oct. 16, 2012. He and his wife, Ann, were residents of the Retreat in Rio Rancho, N.M., where they moved in 2011. He…
George B. Chapman Jr. ’39
George died Nov. 18, 2012, 11 days short of his 95th birthday. At his service in Aurora, Ohio, all five of his sons took part…
Robert James McKay Jr. ’39
Jim, our pediatrician and professor of pediatrics, died Nov. 23, 2012, at Wake Robin, the life-care community he and his late wife, Liz, helped found…
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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