MEMORIALS
Ellis Laurimore Phillips Jr. ’42
El, of Medfield, Mass., died Sept. 28, 2006. He prepared at Deerfield Academy and graduated from Princeton summa cum laude and as a member of…
John Ryckman Walbridge ’42
John, the son of Ernest A. Walbridge ’15, died Oct. 21, 2006, in Babylon, N.Y., after a long and happy life. Having prepared at Deerfield…
Gordon Bent ’42
Gordy, brother of the late William Bent ’41, died Sept. 19, 2006, at home in Lake Forest, Ill. A graduate of The Hill School, at…
Stuart Hamilton ’42
Stu, son of Samuel Hamilton 1910, died Sept. 19, 2006, in Glastonbury, Conn., after a period of declining health. A graduate of the Loomis School…
Shelby Rees Lee Jr. ’42
Shelby, grandson of James Lee Jr. 1853, died Dec. 30, 2005, in a hospice in Memphis. He prepared at the Harvey School and Hotchkiss. At…
William Henry Osborn Jr. ’42
BILL DIED Sept. 15, 1993, at his home in Locust Valley, N.Y. Having spent his entire business career in the securities field, he had retired…
Joseph Condon Hoopes ’42
JOE DIED of heart failure on Aug. 20, 1993, in Skagway, Alaska, while he and Betty, his wife of more than 50 years, were on…
Phillip Nathaniel Ellis Greene Jr. ’42
PHIL DIED Aug. 20, 1993, in Fair Haven, N.J., of a stroke during openheart surgery. He and Barbara, his wife of 51 years, had just…
John Avon Nevius ’42
A PRINCETON WINDSOCK dominated Jack Nevius's hospital room when he died Apr. 23, 1993, of lymphoma and Lou Gehrig's disease. The class lost a committed…
John Nixon Brooks Jr. ’42
JOHN DIED July 27, 1993, at the Southampton (L.I.) Nursing Home, following a debilitating stroke, his second, suffered more than two years ago. He was…
Henry Drinker Riley ’42
HANK DIED Mar. 28, 1993, in Hanover, N.H., after a long illness. He retired to Vermont in 1969 and had been a volunteer at the…
Augustus Paine Gibson Il ’42
GUSTY PAINE died on May 9, 1993, at his home in Hobe Sound, Fla., where he had lived since 1973. At the time of his…
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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