Stanley N. Rubin ’55

Stan died Dec. 28, 2025, in Delray Beach, Fla.

Arriving at Princeton with the class, it took him very little time to create and establish his jazz band, The Tigertown Five, as the favorite musical entertainment on Prospect Street and many other places. The original Five included classmate Rich Herbruck at the drums. While Stan was still an undergraduate, The Tigertown Five played a sellout at Carnegie Hall and later they played at the Newport Jazz Festival. A year after graduation, the band was invited to, and played at, the festivities around the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier in Monaco.

Stan was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., and graduated from Blair Academy, where he captained the golf team and was valedictorian. At Princeton, he majored in English, wrote his thesis on Eugne O’Neill, joined Elm, and roomed with Bob Raymond. Music and travel took up most of his time at Princeton and later at Fordham Law School, but he graduated from both.

His career later included organizing and leading a swing band and a business supplying musical groups for events such as weddings, proms, and the like. His personal involvement was cut short after 1984 by a tumor of the acoustic nerve and surgery for it that rendered him unable to play the clarinet. However, he continued to manage musical groups until shortly before his last illness.

Stan is survived by his wife of 55 years, Judy; their daughter Jennifer; his children from a prior marriage Deborah, Jonathan and his wife Ewelina, and Barrie; and grandson Dylan Stevens ’15.