MEMORIALS
Frank J. Gratzer *71
Frank Gratzer, a retired electrical engineer who had been with Bell Laboratories and its successors for 30 years, died at his home Oct. 24, 2010…
Edward N. Beiser *67
Edward Beiser, professor emeritus of political science at Brown University, died Sept. 4, 2009, of Parkinson’s disease at an assisted-living facility. He was 67. Beiser…
Jean-claude Bajeux *77
Jean-Claude Bajeux, a Haitian human-rights activist and scholar, died of lung cancer Aug. 5, 2011. He was 79. Bajeux received a degree from the University…
James H. Foxgrover *59
James Foxgrover, a retired rear admiral, naval aviator, and engineer, died July 30, 2011. He was 85. Foxgrover completed his bachelor’s degree in 1948 at…
Alan Pasch *55
Alan Pasch, a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, died June 9, 2011, of heart disease. He was 85. After Army service…
Alan E. Marshall *68
Alan Marshall, an Australian geologist, died July 16, 2011, after a long battle with a rare brain disorder. He was 72. Marshall graduated from the…
Patrick P. Billingsley *55
Patrick Billingsley, professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at the University of Chicago who also was a movie actor, died April 22, 2011, after a…
Solomon Leader *52
Solomon Leader, a professor emeritus of mathematics at Rutgers, died Aug. 13, 2011. He was 85. Leader served in the Army from 1944 to 1946…
Albert H. Hastorf *49
Albert Hastorf, the Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology emeritus at Stanford, died Sept. 26, 2011. He was 90. Hastorf received a bachelor’s degree…
Vernon J. Dixon *73
Vernon Dixon, who had been the Merit Professor of Economics at Haverford College, died April 23, 2011. He was 78. In 1954, Dixon received a…
Hobart D. Betts III ’56 *61
Hobie died Nov. 28, 2011, at Stony Brook (N.Y.) Hospital of complications resulting from a fall. He was 78 and had lived in Sag Harbor…
John S. Toll *52
John Toll, a physicist who presided over two major research universities, died of respiratory failure July 15, 2011. He was 87. Toll graduated from Yale…
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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