MEMORIALS
Barclay Morrison ’34
Barc Morrison, cited by his 1974 class award for outstanding achievement as a "distinguished professional engineer, accomplished amateur pilot, and effective leader in civic, church…
John Nicoll Durrie ’34
John Durrie, who served six years as Princeton's assistant secretary under Alex Leitch '24 before becoming, in 1949, the first secretary of the Univ. of…
Edward Hume Dudley Johnson ’34
Dudley Johnson, who taught English at Princeton for 34 years and retired in 1978 as the Holmes Professor Emeritus of Belles Lettres, died Dec. 9…
Norman Low Kennedy ’34
Norman Kennedy died in Montclair, N.J., Nov. 8, 1995. He was born and grew up in Maplewood, N.J., from where he entered Princeton via Lawrenceville…
David Laurance Chambers Jr. ’34
Dave Chambers, who back in senior year created our beer suit design, died Sept. 24, 1995, after a long illness. For 12 years he struggled…
John Joseph Gill ’34
John Gill, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1991 that left him blind and paralyzed, died May 29, 1995, in Scottsdale, Ariz. He had lived…
Walker Atta Van Thomas ’34
Walker "Tommy" Thomas, an executive with Allstate Insurance Co. for 25 years before he retired in 1972, died May 16, 1995. Before Allstate, his career…
Nelson Paul Yeardley ’34
Nelson Yeardley, who taught mathematics at Thiel College in Greenville, Penn., for nearly 30 years, died Feb. 2, 1995. He had a heart attack while…
R. Kenneth Fairman ’34
KEN FAIRMAN, Princeton's director of athletics for 32 years and one of the most prominent members of our class, died Mar. 8, 1994, following a…
H. Wisner Miller Jr. ’34
WIS MILLER, who retired in 1971 as a v.p. and group executive of I.B.M., died Feb. 18, 1994, at his home in Stuart, Fla. He…
Eric R. Braun ’34
ERIC BRAUN, formerly director of operational services at Merck & Co.'s chemical division in Rahway, N.J., died Jan. 9, 1994. At Merck, his responsibilities covered…
Carlos Coolidge Alden Jr. ’34
COOL ALDEN, whose WWII exploits as a flight surgeon and deeds of daring behind enemy lines brought him recognition as "the most gallant combat surgeon…
Memorial PAWcasts
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.
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