MEMORIALS
Howard Adelson *52
Howard Adelson died Dec. 5, 2003; he was 78. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he graduated from NYU in 1945 and joined the Army as a…
Carl N. Saldin *52
Material Sciences Engineering/Aeronautical Engineering, Dec. 11, 2002.
Alfred T. Whatley ’44 *52
Al died July 20, 2002. He came to Princeton from Fountain Valley High in Denver, Colo. He majored in physical chemistry and, after service in…
George V. Walsh *52
George V. Walsh died on Nov. 8, 2001, at his home in Salisbury, Md., after a long illness. He earned his AB in philosophy from…
Thomas R. Meehan *52
Thomas R. Meehan, a dedicated and beloved history professor at Oregon State University, died Oct. 3, 2006. He was 87. Meehan’s mother died after giving…
Robert Rinehart France *52
Retired v.p. of the U. of Rochester [N.Y.], Robert R. France, died Apr. 12, 1998. He was 78. He had battled Parkinson's disease for several…
Alexander Papamarkou *52
Alexander Papamarkou, philanthropist and international investment banker, died Apr. 23, 1998, of a heart attack at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. He was 68…
Charles L. Gandy Jr. *52
Aeronautical Engineering, July 24, 2006
William W. Woobury *52
Mathematics, June 20, 2004
Augustus Robert Towers Jr. ’45 *52
Professor Bob Towers died May 2, 1995, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, of pancreatic cancer. Bob entered Princeton from St. Christopher's in Richmond and was…
Francis H. Sleeper *52
Francis H. Sleeper, an old-fashioned, respected, and hardworking business reporter, died Sept. 8, 2006, in Portland, Maine, after a long struggle with prostate cancer. He…
David Erickson Brickl *52
DAVID ERICKSON BRICKL *52, aged 64 years, retired physicist at the I.B.M. facilities located in East Fishkill, N.Y., died Aug. 12, 1991, at Vassar Brothers…
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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