MEMORIALS
John Whitney Nixon ’34
JOHN (NODDY) NIXON, whose career was as an engineer with Shell Oil and National Distillers, died Dec. 4 after a long illness. His wife, Barbara…
William Pagenstecher ’34
BILL PAGENSTECHER, who retired in 1971 as V.P. and senior investment officer of the Boatmen's Natl. Bank in St. Louis, died in that city Oct…
George Harold Wegener ’34
GEORGE CWEG) WEGENER, a longtime resident of Ridgewood, NJ., until he moved to Va. in 1980 when he retired as national account executive in the…
Roger Bertine Kirkpatrick ’34
ROG KIRKPATRICK, whose matchless wit and perfectly tuned sense of pure fun endeared him to persons of all stages and stations in life, died Aug…
Alfred Leonard Florman ’34
AL FLORMAN, a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics, honored for his contributions to die Academy of Pediatrics, the N.Y. Academy of Medicine, and the March…
Perry Kimball Sellon ’34
PERRY (PETE) SELLON died April 23, 1990, after a long and persistent illness. He had been associate director of the international staff at U.S. NEWS…
Robert Zane Collings Jr. ’34
BOB COLLINGS, who served as a physician/commander in the Navy for 13 years before settling in rural Arizona, where he practiced for another 27 years…
William Earl Garrison ’34
BILL GARRISON, whose interests over the years included writing, camping, traveling, history, architecture, gardening, tennis, and spectator sports, particularly Princeton football, died Dec. 16, 1989…
Douglas Evon Nelson ’34
DOUG NELSON, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church in New Haven, Conn., for 23 years, died in that city on Nov. 2, 1989, after…
Ralph Hutchinson Poole Jr. ’34
RALPH POOLE, whose varied career included building Marineland in Florida, operating a successful dairy farm in upstate New York, serving as president of a real-estate…
Edmund Delong Bowman ’34
Delong Bowman, head of the A. Smith Bowman Distillery, a family business that has produced Virginia Gentleman bourbon at Sunset Hills Farm in Fairfax Cty…
Robert Habgood Patton Jr, ’34
BOB HABGOOD, a prominent civic leader of his home¬town, Bradford, Penn., died on Sept. 15, 1989. The local newspaper wondered in an editorial "how one…
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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