MEMORIALS
Lindley Welsh Tiers ’34 *35
Lin Tiers, a nationally ranked tennis player in the late 1930s and a former executive in the overseas division of Citibank, died July 29, 1998…
Darwin L. Vexler *35
Biology, Dec. 13, 2003
Alfred Theodore Drury ’34 *35
Ted Drury, who retired in 1975 as head of the Technical Services Dept. at the U.S. Naval Ship Research & Development Center in Bethesda, Md…
James Archibald Kerr ’32 *35
Arch Kerr died Mar. 20, 1996, at the Meadow Lakes retirement community in Hightstown, N.J. After graduation, Arch went on to graduate studies in architecture…
Joseph R. Perkins *35
JOSEPH R. PERKINS JR., aged 80, died Jan. 24, 1992, in Newark, Del. A Princeton Graduate School alumnus electrical engineering, he had a long and…
Remsen Eyk Ten Schenck ’34 *35
REM SCHENCK passed away Mar. 1, 1992, after a long illness. He roomed with Ernie May at the Grad College for one year and then…
John M. Dickey ’33 *35
JOHN DICKEY died at home in Westtown, Penn., Sept. 19, 1990. John was born Jan. 9, 1911, in Chicago. He lived in Germany and in…
Thomas Richard Shoaff *34
Thomas Richard Shoaff, a Fort Wayne, Ind., architect, died May 13, 2005. He was 96. Well before the age of motorized travel, Shoaff was born…
Robert Carl Ficke Jr. ’33 *34
Bob died Jan. 3, 2006, at home in Wilmington, Del. He was 96. Born Feb. 21, 1909, in Davenport, Iowa, he attended the Lawrenceville School…
Jack Levine *34
Jack Levine, a retired professor of mathematics, died June 9, 2005. He was 98. Levine graduated from UCLA in 1929 and enrolled the following year…
Harold D. Gresham *34
Economics and Social Institutions, Jan. 4, 2004
William T. Martin *34
Mathematics, May 30, 2004
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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