Michael S. McAshan ’61

Mike died Sept. 14, 2012, of Alzheimer’s disease in Ennis, Texas.

Born and raised in Houston, he came to Princeton from St. John’s High School there. At Princeton he majored in physics, ate at Wilson Lodge, and was a member of Theatre Intime. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. His roommates were Gordon Goodfellow and David Armstrong.

After Princeton, Mike earned a Ph.D. at Rice University and went to work at Stanford. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories and Superconducting Super Collider in California, then Fermilab in Illinois, returning to Texas in 1989. Mike enjoyed building greenhouses, raising orchids, and photography. He built his own photographic equipment.

We saw and heard from Mike very little over the years, but his daughter, Sarah, tells us he read every issue of PAW.

In 1968, Mike married Juliana Cashman, whom he had first met in preschool. She survives him, as do his daughters Elizabeth, Sarah, and Molly; three grandchildren; and a brother and his family. With them, we mourn Mike’s passing.