MEMORIALS
Rudolf Kirk ’22 *32
RUDOLF KIRK died of heart failure in San Marcos, Tex., Nov. 7, 1989, at age 91. Rudolf prepared for Princeton at Sidwell Friends School in…
Francis C. Wood ’22
FRAN WOOD died Dec. 16, 1990, at his home in Haverford, Penn. He was born in South Africa, Oct. 1, 1901. He moved to the…
Thomas Stanley Matthews ’22
TOM MATTHEWS died Jan. 4, 1991, of lung cancer at his home in Cavendish, England. He was born in Cincinnati, Oh., Jan. 16, 1901. He…
Thurston V. Lawshe ’22
THURSTON ("FAT") LAWSHE died March 26, 1990, at age of 91. He was born Dec. 24,1898, at Newark, NJ. He lived in Waterbury, Conn. He…
Leo August Jiranek ’22
LEO AUGUST JIRANEK died of cancer Jan. 27, 1990. Jerry was born Aug. 30, 1900, in Grand Rapids, Mich. He prepared for college at western…
Lawrence Crane Woods Jr. ’22
OUR CLASS suffered a real loss with the death of Pete Woods Apr. 25, 1990, in Newtown Square, Penn. Pete was born July 18,1899, in…
Henry Littleton Page Jr. ’22
HENRY (HANK) Littleton Page, a retired coal executive, died June 14, 1989, in Union Memorial Hospital in the Baltimore area. Hank was born at Plattsburgh…
Arthur Christie Regan ’22
ARTHUR C. REGAN died on Oct 21, 1989, at the age of 89, having been born Dec. 4, 1899, in Fessenden, N.D. He came to…
Nelson Atlee Kenworthy ’22
The class lost a determined, independent, traditionalist, and vigorous member when Ken Kenworthy died on May 30, 1989, after having suffered for nearly five years…
George Kalb Davies ’22
George Davies died of complications following surgery in Marysville, Tenn., where he lived with Martha Burchfield, his second wife. His first wife, Winnifred Hendrickson, whom…
Watt Reynolds Matthews ’21
Watt Matthews died Apr. 13, 1997, at Lambshead Ranch, his 45,000 acre West Texas spread. He was 98. At Princeton, Watt majored in economics, was…
Charles Huston Haines ’21
Charles Huston Haines died Mar. 20, 1996, in Roxborough, Pa., of the effects of a stroke. He was 97. Chas came to Princeton from Choate…
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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