MEMORIALS
John W. Carpenter Jr. ’47
John Carpenter died May 8, 2013, in Orange City, Fla. He was born in Cleveland and attended the University School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, before…
Ernest L. Ransome III ’47
Ernie died May 5, 2013, in Okatie, S.C. He is remembered as an outstanding athlete in football and lacrosse, and an All-American in lacrosse in…
Paul C. Hudson ’47
Paul died Feb. 4, 2013, in Baltimore, Md. After graduating from Gilman School, Paul was accepted at Princeton but joined the Marine V-12 unit in…
Charles E. Getler ’47
Charles Getler died April 20, 2013, in Naples, Fla., from Parkinson’s disease. Born in Detroit, Charlie prepped at Detroit University School and entered Princeton in…
John K. White ’44 *45
John died May 5, 2013, at home in Arlington, Va., from the effects of a stroke he suffered last year. Preceded at Princeton by two…
Paul M. Douglas ’41 *48
Former class president Paul Douglas died Feb. 27, 2013, in Cathedral Village, a continuing-care retirement community in Philadelphia. He came to Princeton from Pasadena (Calif.)…
James B. Armstrong ’39
Jim died March 24, 2013, at the Longwood at Oakmont retirement community in Verona, Pa., a few miles from his 70-acre farm, “Lodgegrass,” in Allison…
John M. Searles ’38
Jack Searles died April 9, 2013, at his home in Davenport, Iowa. He was 97. Jack was raised in Englewood, N.J., and prepared for Princeton…
Richard F. Ober ’37
Dick Ober died April 13, 2013, in Baltimore, where he lived all his life. At the time of his death he was living at Blakehurst…
John P. Jones ’36
J.P. died Jan. 30, 2013, in La Jolla, Calif., after a brief illness. He was 98. He was born May 3, 1914, in Youngstown, Ohio…
Robert T. Riley ’84
Bob Riley died Aug. 30, 2007, from respiratory complications related to HIV. His Princeton friends and former roommates only recently learned of his passing. Bob…
Maria Grayson-metaxas ’83
Maria Grayson-Metaxas (formerly Maria Ross Hanahan) died peacefully Aug. 13, 2012, at her home in Berkeley, Calif., after an inspiring three-year battle with colon cancer…
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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