MEMORIALS
Varnum C. Mead ’21
VARNUM C. MEAD died Sept. 3, 1990, after a long illness. He was 92 years old. He was born and lived all his life in…
Richard M. Ehret ’21
RICHARD M. EHRET died April 10, 1990, in Haverford, Penn. Born in Edgewater Park, NJ., he and St. Paul's Schools. At Princeton he was on…
Edward Lawrence Keyes ’21
LARRY KEYES died Feb. 11, 1990, at his home in St. Louis. He was 90 years old. In senior year he was voted "Best AllAround…
William Rogers ’21
WILLIAM ROGERS died in his sleep July 14, 1990, in Medford Lakes , NJ. He was born in Cheltenham, England, where he lived and prepared…
George King Churchill ’21
GEORGE DIED at the age of 93 on July 12, 1989, at his summer home in Water Mill, N.Y. He was born in N.Y.C. and…
Thomas F. Paddock ’21
Thomas Paddock died on July 7, 1989, at the age of ninety. A native of Detroit, he prepared for college at the Taft School. Tom…
Claude Gortatowsky ’21
Claude Gortatowsky died suddenly on Apr. 16, 1989, within one month of his 91st birthday. He transferred to Princeton after his junior year at UVA…
Walter L. Morgan ’20
Walter L. Morgan, the last surviving member of the Class of '20, died Sept. 2, 1998, at Bryn Mawr [Pa.] Hospital. He was 100. Walter…
George William Bauernschmidt ’20
Rear Admiral George William Bauernschmidt USN (SC) Ret. died Apr. 18, 1998, at the Ginger Cove Health Center in Annapolis, Md. He was 99. George…
Carl H. Donner ’20
Carl H. Donner, of Summit, N.J., died Nov. 29, 1996, of congestive heart failure in Overlook Hospital in Summit. He was 97. He had been…
Richard Hartshorne ’20
OUR CLASSMATE Dick Hartshorne died of cancer Nov. 5, 1992. He was a professor emeritus of geography at the Univ. of WisconsinMadison. He specialized in…
Homer Hart Hewitt Jr. ’20
HOMER DIED at 96 Aug. 2, 1992, in the Broomall, Penn., Presbyterian Home. He had practiced law in Philadelphia from 1923 until he retired from…
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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