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Everett Garretson *51

Everett Garretson, an electrical engineer and 60-year resident of Princeton who became co-owner of H.P. Clayton Inc., the women’s department store on Palmer Square, died…

John M. Steadman III *49

John Steadman, an accomplished author and educator, died peacefully March 4, 2012, at the age of 93. After receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory…

Michael R. Verter *76

Michael Verter, retired vice president of an electronic components firm, died from a stroke Sept. 18, 2011. He was 62. Verter received a bachelor’s degree…

Shoei-sheng Chen *68

Shoei-Sheng Chen, a retired senior mechanical engineer at the Argonne (Ill.) National Laboratory, died Feb. 11, 2012. He was 72. Born in Taiwan, Chen was…

Dale F. Ritter *64

Dale Ritter, former professor of geology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, died June 1, 2012, after a long battle with esophageal cancer. He was…

Whiting R. Willauer ’53 *59

“Whitey,” who was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency while still an underclassman and lived an exciting life, as did his Colonial clubmate, astronaut Pete…

Henry R. Alexander *52

Henry Alexander, who had been a staff engineer with Raytheon Corp. for 47 years, died March 16, 2012, at home after a brief battle with…

Roy J. Britten *51

Roy Britten, a retired biophysicist who discovered “junk” DNA, died Jan. 21, 2012. He was 92. Britten graduated from the University of Virginia in 1940…

John L. Bender ’42 *49

John Bender died Aug. 13, 2012, in Fairfax, Va. John was a native of Princeton. His father, Harold Bender, was professor of Indo-Germanic philology at…

George H. Morrison *48

George Morrison, professor emeritus of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University and an international authority on trace-element analysis and materials characterization, died June 11…

Edward C. Page Jr. ’42 *46

Ned Page died Sept. 2, 2012, in Chestnut Hill, Mass., from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Ned prepared for college at St. Paul’s. At Princeton he…

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