MEMORIALS
Lemuel Skidmore Jr. ’39
LEM DIED Aug. 24, 1992. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in Jan. 1991 and given six months to live, Lem kept the monster at bay for…
Pitt Sawyer Willand ’39
PITT DIED June 14, 1992, in Tucson, where he and his wife, Anne, had settled in 1988 at the end of a long career that…
Richard Ralston Hough ’39
TWO LIVES FILLED with accomplishment and service ended tragically on July 9, 1992, when Dick and his wife died in the crash of their personal…
John Cobbs Lewis Laslie ’39
WIDELY KNOWN BANKER and financial consultant, John died June 13, 1992, at his home in Cocoa, Fla., following a long and valiant struggle against cancer…
Robert Dudley Thum ’39
A FAMILY MAN of many talents and wideranging interests, Bob died of heart failure Mar. 10, 1992, while visiting his son Robert '67 in Berkeley…
Samuel Taylor Bodine ’39
SAM DIED Dec. 22, 1991, at Waverly Heights, Gladwynne, Penn. Throughout a long final illness, he was, as always, a good sport, clinging to a…
Burnett Gordon Britcher ’39
GORDON DIED June 23, 1991, at his home in Syracuse. At the time of his death he was still active as treasurer of Syracuse Pottery…
John Caleb Cushing ’39
JOHN DIED Nov. 6, 1991, at his home in Hinsdale, 111. He had retired from U.S. Steel (USX) in 1975, after 38 years in various…
John Phelps Chamberlain ’39
AFTER A LONG BOUT with Parkinson's disease, Jack died Nov. 29, 1991, in a nursing home in Florida. In his distinguished undergraduate career Jack won…
Willhun Frederick Hofmann Jr. ’39
BILL DIED at his home in Belmont, Mass., on Oct. 4, 1991. Courageous and uncomplaining through a long illness, he at least had the satisfaction…
Harold Hawley Seymour ’39
HICKEY DIED Dec. 3, 1991, at his home in Montour Falls, N.Y. He had retired in 1977, but with no idea of leaving a countryside…
John Alan Wilson ’39
JACK DIED on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Dec. 2, 1991. He had moved to Sea Pines Plantation in 1981 and a year later retired as…
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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