MEMORIALS
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…
James Wesley Samuels ’34
Jimmy Samuels, the perennial host of our "Big Three" luncheons in Jadwin Gym, died on Aug. 6, 1989, at his home in Princeton while watching…
Theodore Eugene Briell Jr. ’34
Ted Briell, who described himself not long ago as becoming a "mechanical man: first, spectacles; second, hearing aid, one in each ear; third, hip replacement…
Jackson Penrose Serfas ’34
Jack Serfas, a prolific writer of letters to the editor of several papers including The New York Times, died Aug. 4, 2005, it recently was…
John Wesley Haubner ’34
Wes Haubner, a retired patent attorney associated with General Electric Co. for 42 years, died March 26, 2006, of an apparent heart attack in Media…
Joseph Holland Burchenal ’34
Joe Burchenal, whose pioneering work with drug treatments for leukemia and other forms of cancer earned him, in 1964, one of the first three of…
Henry Williamson Ghriskey ’34
Bill, who at 93 continued working as managing director of Trainer, Wortham and Co. Inc., a NYC investment-counseling firm, where he had been since 1978…
Theron Ludlow Marsh ’33
Theron Ludlow Marsh, known to the class as Curly, died, July 30, 2007, at the age of 95. He was born Dec. 9, 1911, in…
Robert Carl Ficke Jr. ’33 *34
Bob died Jan. 3, 2006, at home in Wilmington, Del. He was 96. Born Feb. 21, 1909, in Davenport, Iowa, he attended the Lawrenceville School…
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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