MEMORIALS
Dorsey Alexander ’37
Dorsey Alexander died Jan. 18, 2009, in Mendocino, Calif. He was born in Clarksburg, W.Va., and attended the Calvert and Gilman schools in Baltimore. At…
Robert Parry Rye ’37
Robert Parry Rye died April 23, 2008. He was born in Wilmette, Ill., and also lived in Montclair, N.J. He prepared at Montclair Academy, Newark…
Robert Wiedenmayer ’37
Robert Wiedenmayer died April 28, 2008. He was born in Newark, N.J. He attended Montclair Academy and Lawrenceville, where he was on the student council…
Charles D. Ridgeway III ’36
Charles was born in Santo Domingo and prepared for Princeton at Montclair (N.J.) High School. He left college in February of our sophomore year. He…
Gaylord Wilson Gillis Jr. ’34
Gay Gillis, who was with us at college for only part of freshman year but developed into an enthusiastic classmate after 1934, died Dec. 31…
Donald Howard Whitney ’30
Don died March 4, 2009, in Statesboro, Ga. Born in New York City, he graduated from Horace Mann School and cum laude from Princeton, where…
Herbert Donald Kistler ’30
Doc Kistler left us Dec. 29, 2008, his centennial year. The end of his long and useful life was clouded by dementia. Born in Montana…
Thomas J. Tucker ’95
Tom Tucker died Jan. 4, 2009, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 35. Tom was raised in Calgary, Canada, where he flourished as…
Sam Schatten ’74
Sam Schatten was taken from us Sept. 27, 2008. Sam loved sports, partying, and lively discussions. He was a lifelong supporter of The Daily Princetonian…
Geoffrey Herr Longenecker ’68
Geoff died Jan. 13, 2009, at home in Versailles, Ky., following a battle with cancer. He was 62. Geoff was born in Pittsburgh and prepared…
John Bruce Hagan ’63
We lost Bruce on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008, after a brief illness. He was an active community member whose life’s work was in finance…
Walter F. Petraitis ’61
Walt died Dec. 27, 2008, at Maui (Hawaii) Memorial Medical Center of coronary artery disease after a long illness and hospitalization. Walt came to Princeton…
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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