MEMORIALS
Gairdner Bostwick Moment ’28
GAIRDNER MOMENT died Aug. 25, 1990, at the Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. He graduated from Montclair H.S., and at Princeton was a debater and…
Harry Crockett Grumpelt ’28
HARRY GRUMPELT died June 25, 1990, at his home in Salisbury, Conn. After graduating from Englewood (NJ.) High School, he majored in English at Princeton…
James Bateman ’28
JIM BATEMAN died April 23, 1990, at his winter home in Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, Ariz. He prepared for college at Culver Academy. At Princeton he…
William Carson Bodine ’28
BILL BODINE, a lawyer in Philadelphia throughout his career, died April 29, 1990, at the Devon Manor Nursing Home in Devon, Penn. He went to…
Edward Coe Embury ’28
RED EMBURY died June 6, 1990, at the Winchester (Va.) Medical Center. After Lawrenceville he studied architecture at Princeton, and was a member of Charter…
Frederick William Brown ’28
FRED BROWN died on May 18, 1989, in York, Me., where he had retired after 44 years with the N.Y. Telephone Co. in offices in…
John Scott Parker Jr. ’28
JACK PARKER, a prominent figure in the field of aviation throughout his career, as an airline executive, an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps…
William Murphy Walker Jr. ’28
BILL WALKER died in Naples, Fla., on Sept. 13, 1989, after a long period of poor health. He was born in Chicago on May 7…
Henry Alexander Greene ’28
HANK GREENE died on Aug. 14, 1989, while visiting his family in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he had been a prominent businessman and civic leader…
Howard Francis Corcoran ’28
Howie Corcoran died of cancer at his home in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 1989. He had a long and distinguished career with the federal…
Victor Evan William Payne ’28
Victor Payne died on June 19, 1989, at the Princeton Medical Center. He was born in Sunbury, England, and came to the U.S. at the…
Marshall Bowman Davidson ’28
"Nip" Davidson, a prolific historian of American art and culture, died of pneumonia on Aug. 8, 1989, at Lenox Hill Hospital, in N.Y.C. His secondary…
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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