The following memorial was published online with the July 8, 2015, issue.
Lance died Feb. 23, 1975.
He graduated from Peekskill Military Academy, a private preparatory school in Peekskill, N.Y., which closed in 1968. At first, Lance was not happy at Princeton and, in February 1959, he told the administration he wanted to transfer to Cornell; in the end, however, he stayed with us. He majored in biology and took his meals at Elm Club. For sophomore and junior years, Lance roomed in North West College with Larry Myers, Chick Carroll, Russ Tornrose, Dave Conners, Steve Ball, Jon Wang, and Larry Wolff.
In the summer of 1961, he married Ronny August, then a student at Adelphi College. During senior year, the couple lived in an off-campus apartment.
Lance attended SUNY Downstate Medical University, obtaining his medical degree in 1968. His specialty was gastroenterology. He served in the Army and was stationed at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colo. He also conducted research in his specialty; he wrote and co-wrote articles published in a number of professional journals, including the "Journal of the American Medical Association." After completing his military service, he established a gastroenterology practice in New York and New Jersey.
Lance and Ronny had divorced not long before his death. The couple had two children, a son, Gregory Warren Lipitz; and a daughter, now Dr. Stacey Lipitz-Kilcullen, D.V.M.
Chick Carroll recalls that he and Lance saw a lot of each other right after graduation as they were both in New York City: "We often went together to Princeton games and events, as he came to realize that he loved his Princeton experience."