MEMORIALS
Francis F. Carpenter ’32
FRAN CARPENTER died Apr. 6, 1993, of heart failure, after a long illness involving several strokes. We will always remember him for being able to…
Hugh W. Handsfield ’32
HUGH HANDSFIELD died Feb. 17, 1993, in a hospital in Charlottesville, Va. At the end of his sophomore year at Princeton, Hugh transferred to St…
Joseph Hodgson Jr. ’32
JOE HODGSON died Feb. 8, 1993, in the aftermath of a stroke he had suffered in 1991 while playing golf As soon as he graduated…
Stephen Krauss Myers ’32
STEVE MYERS died Feb. 12, 1993, after a short illness. He was born and spent most of his life in Savannah, Ga., where he contributed…
Joseph Wallace Oman ’32
WALLY OMAN died peacefully, after a stroke, on Nov. 18, 1992, at his home in Berkeley, Calif. After graduation from Princeton, Wally took courses in…
Walter Hamer Gahagan Jr. ’32
A BIG MANboth in physique and in contributions to the world around himWalter Gahagan died of lymphoma Jan. 4, 1993, at the DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center…
Walter Bruce Dunn ’32
WAI.T DUNN died Oct. 16, 1992, at his home in Ft. Lauderdale, after a lingering illness. Walt's activities at Princeton with the Glee Club and…
William Epperson Gilmore ’32
BILL GILMORE died Oct. 16, 1992, of congestive heart failure, at his home in Naples, Fla. Until his retirement in 1982, he had been a…
Jack Millender Cotton ’32
JACK COTTON died of congestive heart failure Oct. 19, 1992, at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had homes in Bethesda, Md., and Clearwater, Fla. Jack was…
Robert Gordon Fairburn ’32
ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S eminent industrialists, Bob Fairburn died Sept. 26, 1992, at the Community Hospital in Monterey, Calif. He lived in Carmel and in…
William Campbell ’32
BILL O'NEIL, another of our eminent lawyer classmates, died Sept. 8, 1992, after a long, brave struggle with cancer. After graduating from Harvard Law School…
John Milton Ranck ’32
AFTER A LONG BOUT with cancer, Johnny Ranck died Aug.2, 1992, at his home in Strasburg, Penn., thus ending a distinguished career as a lawyer…
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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