MEMORIALS
William Campbell Gay ’27
DIED Sept. 3, 1991, at his house in Huntington Bay, Long Island. He retired in 1970, after many years as a partner in the brokerage…
George Clinton Denniston ’27
DENNY DIED Oct. 19, 1991 appropriately he would have thought on his way to a Princeton football game. Questioned about his hobbies, for '27's THIRTYFIFTH…
Chauncey H. Marsh ’27
CHAUNCE DIED July 27, 1991, "a release from long confinement," his wife Khe writes after seven and a half years in nursing homes, paralyzed by…
Hallock Sherrard Johnson ’27
HAL DIED Aug. 23, 1991, at Lima, Penn. His has been a devoted Princetonian family, including John E. Johnson 1884, Walter L. Johnson 1896, Hal's…
Lewis Hall Gordon ’27
A PHYSICIAN'S SON, he devoted his life to organ music and to those musical languages, French and Italian. Classmates might have predicted his future, when…
Charles Lewis Henricks Jr. ’27
CHICK DIED Mar. 10, 1991, after a brief illness, in his longtime retirement home, the Canary Islands. His widow, Pat, reports that he was in…
Karl Gustav Pearson ’27
KARL DIED Mar. 6,1991. His background was unusual for a Princeton undergraduate of the 1920s, when the campus was Eastern and Anglo. He was born…
Thomas B. Wanamaker Jr. ’27
TOM DIED Feb. 23, 1991. He came to Princeton from Ardmore, Penn. and Haverford school, and left the campus in June 1924. He led a…
Henry J. Butler ’27
"HANK" DIED Feb. 23, 1991, after a stroke, at the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. For many years he was president of Butler, Kohaus, Inc…
Emilio L. Roma Jr. ’27
TED BACHRAN reports that Emilio L. Roma Jr., of Chestnut Hill, Penn., died Feb. 3, 1991. He was one of die'27ers who had forsaken a…
George Hamilton David ’27
GEORGE DIED Aug. 16, 1988. After Princeton, die Univ. of Pittsburgh, and a few years with the Consolidated Gas Co. of N.Y., he devoted himself…
Alfred Robert Gessinger ’27
AL DIED Sept. 19, 1990, in retirement at New Canaan, Conn. He was one of the 1927ers who have enjoyed two successful careers. The first…
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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