Melinda Beth Starn ’94

Mindy died on May 3, 1999. Born in Redwood City, Calif., she was from Honolulu, Hawaii, and graduated from the Punahou School. Although Mindy left Princeton during her first semester in 1990, many will remember her from Outdoor Action, Forbes College, and her sorority. Mindy went on to graduate from Colorado College, and she received her MSN from Vanderbilt, specializing as a family nurse practitioner.

Hawaii was home for Mindy, and she worked as a nurse practitioner in the Caravan Project, a program that serves homeless people around the island. She loved to hike in the mountains, swim in the ocean, write poetry, and engage in intellectual discussion.

Appropriately, there was a beautiful service next to the beach, with the sounds of the warm ocean nearby. Her friends and family came from all over to celebrate Mindy's life with laughter and tears as her poetry and prose were read by those close to her.

Mindy is survived by her mother, Jane, her father, Peter, stepmother, Jane'e, brothers, Sean, Andrew, and Wyatt, and her sister, Paris. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1994