MEMORIALS
Michael R. Verter *76
Michael Verter, retired vice president of an electronic components firm, died from a stroke Sept. 18, 2011. He was 62. Verter received a bachelor’s degree…
Shoei-sheng Chen *68
Shoei-Sheng Chen, a retired senior mechanical engineer at the Argonne (Ill.) National Laboratory, died Feb. 11, 2012. He was 72. Born in Taiwan, Chen was…
Dale F. Ritter *64
Dale Ritter, former professor of geology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, died June 1, 2012, after a long battle with esophageal cancer. He was…
Whiting R. Willauer ’53 *59
“Whitey,” who was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency while still an underclassman and lived an exciting life, as did his Colonial clubmate, astronaut Pete…
Kennard F. Stephenson Jr. ’51 *55
Ken was born July 6, 1926, in Albany, N.Y., the son of Mary Flugel and Kennard F. Stephenson 1912. Ken attended Milne High School in…
Henry R. Alexander *52
Henry Alexander, who had been a staff engineer with Raytheon Corp. for 47 years, died March 16, 2012, at home after a brief battle with…
Roy J. Britten *51
Roy Britten, a retired biophysicist who discovered “junk” DNA, died Jan. 21, 2012. He was 92. Britten graduated from the University of Virginia in 1940…
John L. Bender ’42 *49
John Bender died Aug. 13, 2012, in Fairfax, Va. John was a native of Princeton. His father, Harold Bender, was professor of Indo-Germanic philology at…
George H. Morrison *48
George Morrison, professor emeritus of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University and an international authority on trace-element analysis and materials characterization, died June 11…
Edward C. Page Jr. ’42 *46
Ned Page died Sept. 2, 2012, in Chestnut Hill, Mass., from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Ned prepared for college at St. Paul’s. At Princeton he…
Nathaniel Wollman *40
Nathaniel Wollman, retired dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Mexico, died June 10, 2012. He was 97. Wollman…
John D. Hunter ’90
John Hunter, loving father, devoted husband, caring son, and generous friend, died from cancer, Aug. 28, 2012. He was 44. John was raised in Dyersburg…
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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