MEMORIALS
Charles Van Pool Gelder ’29
VanVan died May 21, 1997. He prepared at Tower Hills Friends School. At Princeton he was in the band, orchestra, and crew and belonged to…
Graham Nash ’29
Gray died Mar. 10, 1998, in Santa Barbara. He prepared for college at Lake Forest Academy. At Princeton he was on the pistol team and…
Henry Alfred Loeb ’29
Henry died Jan. 27, 1998. He prepared for college at Horace Mann School in NYC. After Princeton he went to Harvard Law School and joined…
William King Murray ’29 *30
King died Nov. 3, 1997, after some years in a nursing home. He prepared for college at Flushing H.S. At Princeton he roomed with Harry…
Goodwin G. Weinberg ’29
Goodwin died Oct. 22, 1997. He never gave us much information about his life, but his father, an immigrant from the Ukraine, was famous as…
Donald Ralston Gibbons ’29
Don died Sept. 27, 1997. He had prepared for college at East Orange H.S. and Asbury Park H.S. After Princeton Don went immediately into electronic…
Chester Baylis Jr. ’29
Chet died Nov. 25, 1997. He prepared for college at Montclair Academy. At Princeton he was on the crew and a member of Tiger Inn…
Garland Miller Lasater ’29
Gar died in his native Texas Aug. 18, 1997. He had prepared for college at Andover. At Princeton he was in Ivy Club. He was…
Blair Birdsall ’29 *30
Blair died June 25, 1997. He prepared at Barringer H.S. and Blair Academy. At Princeton he played freshman and scrub football, was secretary of the…
Courtland Hastings ’29
Court died Jan. 2, 1997. He prepared for college at Passaic [N.J.] HS. At Princeton his roommates were Bretaigne Windust, John P. Thatcher '28, and…
Charles Robert Neidlinger ’29
Charlie (his later nickname, but we knew him earlier as Junie and Chas) died Mar. 19, 1996. He prepared at Lawrenceville, Hill, Westminster, and Clark…
Alexis Du Felix Pont Jr. ’29
Felix died Dec. 30, 1996. His long aviation career started with his first airplane ride in 1918 and first solo flight in 1927. He graduated…
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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