MEMORIALS
Nicolas A. Oreamuno ’50
Nick, whose father had once been vice president of Costa Rica, died Feb. 1, 2011, in that country. He came to Princeton from Liceo de…
Thomas R. Holland ’48
Tom Holland was born Oct. 22, 1926, in Morristown, N.J., and spent most of his long and distinguished medical career in his hometown. (Among his…
James Bartley Given III ’48
Dr. Bart was born in Brooklyn and died June 18, 2013, in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 86. He had lived in West Hartford, Conn., and…
James F. O'Neill ’48
Jim O’Neill was an ophthalmologist who practiced for 30 years in St. Petersburg, Fla. He died June 11, 2013, at age 86. He was born…
William H. Wallop ’47
William “Bunky” Wallop died of a brain tumor June 1, 2013, at his home in Annapolis, Md. He joined our class in 1943 after graduation…
Robert M. Paisley ’47
Bob died May 28, 2013. Bob and his wife, Jean, had lived in Garden City, N.Y., their whole lives, and it is where their children…
John Hemphill Jr. ’47
Jack Hemphill died June 9, 2013, in Victoria, B.C., where he and his wife, Wenche, had lived for 42 years. He grew up in Princeton…
George M. Lethbridge Jr. ’47
“Bud” Lethbridge died peacefully May 20, 2013, at his home in Essex Meadows, Conn., where he had lived for the past six years. Bud came…
Brian F. Hoffman ’46
Calling Dr. Brian Hoffman “a father of modern electrophysiology,” Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) said he revolutionized the study of the heart’s arrhythmias…
Lay M. Fox ’46
President Lyndon Johnson was a gall-bladder-surgery patient at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Medical Center when he met Dr. Lay Fox, the hospital’s chief of medicine. Shortly…
Warren W. Francis ’46
Having discovered Rhode Island during his naval service, Warren Francis went straight to Rhode Island Hospital in 1952 for his surgical residency. And Rhode Island…
Michael Potter ’46
A longtime scientist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Dr. Mike Potter studied mouse plasma cells, a form of white blood cells that produce antibodies…
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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