MEMORIALS
William Van Fowler Deventer ’28
BILLVAN DEVENTER died Nov. 6, 1991, after a long illness, at his home in Tubac, Ariz. He retired in 1969, and, after living in Far…
Raymond Smith Willis Jr. ’28 *33
PETE WILLIS died Nov. 24, 1991, at his home in Monroe Village, Jamesbung, N.J. He had served on the faculty of Princeton University for 43…
Kenneth Biddle Atkinson ’28
KEN ATKINSON died at his home in Mclean, Va., Nov. 6, 1991. He had been slowed down by Parkinson's disease, but kept active in many…
William Alanson Alexander Jr. ’28
ALEX DIED July 10, 1991, in Montclair, N.J. He went to Newark Academy. At Princeton he majored in economics, with considerable additional study of architecture…
Alexander Brown Griswold ’28
ALEX GRISWOLD died Oct, 4, 1991, at his home, Breezewood, in Monkton, Md. He was a graduate of Gilman School. At Princeton he majored in…
Jaquelin Holliday Hume ’28
JACK HUME died Oct. 1, 1991, in San Francisco, after a long illness. He came to Princeton from Exeter, and at college served on the…
Robert Sturm Rau ’28
BOB RAU died June 13, 1991, at New York HospitalCornell Medical Center. He had suffered complications after back surgery. Bob prepared for college at Taft…
John Masury Sturges ’28
JACK STURGES died Aug. 6, 1991, in Southampton, N.Y. He prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville, and in college he majored in modern languages, was a…
Willard Beuren Van King ’28
VAN BEUREN KING died May 25, 1991, in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, following a stroke. The evening before he was stricken, he and his wife…
John Raymond ’28
RAY MURRAY died Apr. 24, 1991, at Clearwater, Fla. He had never fully recovered from a broken leg, but was alert and full of humor…
Walter Bothwell George ’28
WALT GEORGE died Apr. 4, 1991, at the Mount Holly Nursing Center in Lumberton, near the Leisuretown section of Vincentown, NJ., where he lived in…
Robert Easton Boyes ’28
BOB ROYES DIED Feb. 19, 1991, in Ashbrook Nursing Home in Scotch Plains, NJ. He had never recovered completely from injuries suffered in Apr. 1981…
Memorial PAWcasts
Remembering Hendrix Niemann ’73
‘A relationship with Drix, even in business, it was personal. You couldn’t be with him ... and not treat it as a friendship that you either wanted to develop or…
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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