MEMORIALS
Frank H. Wells ’54
Frank Wells died June 20, 2014. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., he prepared for Princeton at Buffalo Technical High School and the Lawrenceville School. At Princeton…
Martin R. Hoffmann ’54
Martin Hoffmann died July 14, 2014. Born in Stockbridge, Mass., he graduated from Middlesex School. At Princeton, he was an English major and a member…
Charles Twiggs Myers ’52
Twiggs, the son of Charles 1909, graduated from the Haverford School. At Princeton he majored in history, joined Colonial Club, and roomed with Andy Deiss…
Prescott Jennings Jr. ’49
Peck Jennings died peacefully on Dec. 8, 2013. He was one of those rare ’49ers who changed careers after 10 years on Wall Street. He…
Leonard Myrton Gaines ’49
Myrt Gaines died June 26, 2013, at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson, Md. He came to Princeton from Andover and graduated as an English major…
Stewart Sullivan ’49
Stewart Sullivan died Oct. 28, 2013, in New York at the age of 84. Stewart, nicknamed “Sully,” came to Princeton from Nicholas Senn High School…
Howard R. Jones ’49
Howard Jones died March 19, 2013, in Davidson, N.C., at age 87. Howard was born July 4, 1925, in Tacoma, Wash. A graduate of Coolidge…
Henry M. Irwin ’47
Henry Irwin died July 10, 2014, in Westwood, Mass. Henry was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Germantown Academy in 1943. His World War II…
Richard R. Neill ’46
Only 14 years after Dick Neill joined textbook publisher Prentice Hall, fresh out of Princeton, he was asked to establish a company subsidiary, which he…
John Rea ’46
If you read the Old Testament of the New American Standard Bible published in 1971, you are reading the work of John Rea, who was…
Frank Midgley Jr. ’94
Frank Midgley died March 24, 2014, at home surrounded by family from non-small-cell lung cancer after 3 1/2 years of, in his own words, “kicking…
H. Patricia Twitchell H ’81
Tricia Twitchell died May 13, 2014, and was buried in Princeton Cemetery wearing her prized Class of 1981 Reunions jacket. Tricia was among a long…
Memorial PAWcasts
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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