MEMORIALS
Montgomery Meigs Orr ’33
Monty Orr died at his home in Santa Fe on Jan. 16, 2000. He was 88. Monty was born in the American Embassy in Rio…
Burt H. Etherington ’33
Burt, president of the Class of 1933 in its first 10 fledgling years, died Dec. 19, 2006. He was born in Philadelphia. After he graduated…
Willard Winn Erdman ’33
Winn was born Jan. 22, 1912, in Quincy, Ill., and died Dec. 9, 1999, in Las Cruces, N.Mex. At Princeton, he majored in classics and…
William Flynn Powell ’33
Bill Powell died Oct. 7, 1999, at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Center. He was 90. Born in Jackonsville, he went to Lawrenceville before Princeton and then…
James Redel Tencher ’33
Jim Tencher died peacefully in his sleep in Waterbury Hospital on Sept. 18, 1999. He was 90. Jim was born in Chicago, the son of…
Frederick Robbins Swan ’33
Fred Swan died Nov. 18, 1999 on board the Sea Cloud as he sailed the Caribbean. He was 86. Fred was born in Hartford and…
Frederick William Williams ’33
Bud Williams died July 21, 1999 in Trenton. He was 88. The NY Times had this brief announcement of his death: After graduation from Princeton…
James Gordon Taylor ’33
Gordie was born in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 18, 1908. He died in Alexander City, Ala., Aug. 14, 1999. He was 90. Gordie came to Princeton…
Anthony Henry Forbes ’33
Tony Forbes died April 3, 1999, in Duluth, Minn. He was 89. He was born in NYC and attended Salisbury [Conn.] School. After two years…
Miller Schlager Gaffney ’33
Miller S. Gaffney died May 18, 1999, in Binghamton, N.Y., following a stroke. Miller prepared at Hill. At Princeton, he majored in economics, played freshman…
George Danforth Gorin ’33
George Gorin died June 28, 1998, in Louisville, Ky., after an extended illness. Following graduation, he went into the insurance business, a partner of the…
David Fendrich Hack ’33
David Fendrich Hack died July 1, 1999, at Farren Care Center in Turner Falls, Mass. He was 87. He prepared for Princeton at Princeton Prep…
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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