MEMORIALS
Thor E. Wood *59
THOR E. WOOD, age 55, chief of the Performing Arts Research Ctr. of the N.Y. Public Library, died Apr. 28, 1988, at Beth Israel Hospital…
Robert E. Biggers *58
Chemistry, Nov. 7, 2005
Peter Andru *58
Civil Engineering, June 9, 2005
Fred G. Burke *58
Fred G. Burke, architect of sweeping change in public school financing and accountability, died March 11, 2005, in Newton, N.J., from a pulmonary embolism. He…
William H. Cherry *58
William H. Cherry died Feb. 19, 2005, in Princeton. He was 85. Cherry received a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton, well after his 1941 start…
Arthur M. Adlerstein *58
Psychology, April 21, 2004
Maximilian A. Kraft Jr. *58
Maximilian A. Kraft Jr. died of lymphoma in Philadelphia June 7, 2004. He was 71. Maximilian grew up in Philadelphia and matriculated at Drexel University…
Oscar S. Rothaus ’48 *58
Math, May 24, 2003
George Galavaris *58
George Galavaris, an expert on Byzantine and Greek art, died in March 2003. Born in Athens, Greece, Galavaris studied at the U. of Athens before…
David B. Lewin *58
David B. Lewin, a relatively unknown yet influential musical theorist and composer, died May 5, 2003, of heart disease in Cambridge, Mass. He was 69…
Jiro Tokuyama *58
Woodrow Wilson School, October 14, 2000
William Pomeroy Ryan ’49 *58
Roy Ryan died Aug. 19, 1995. He was 67. He prepared for Princeton at Princeton H.S., where he was active in tennis, student government, and…
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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