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Gerald D. Sjaastad *63

Sjaastad graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952, and retired as a colonel in the Air Force in 1974. He attended the Princeton Graduate…

Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving ’53 *60

Tom’s three art degrees and an honorary doctor of humane letters degree (1968) from Princeton sparked a career as scholar, flamboyant director of New York’s…

R. Brock Fuller ’49 *52

Brock Fuller died Nov. 6, 2009, at the age of 82. He prepared for Princeton at Phillips Andover Academy, and at Princeton he majored in…

Carter H. Hills *50

and the U.N., died Dec. 8, 2009. He had Alzheimer’s disease and was 87. Hills served in the Navy in World War II and graduated…

Roger Coit Dixon ’36 *42

Roger died of a cerebral hemorrhage Jan. 30, 2010, in his hometown of Mitchellville, Md. The son of a Princeton economics professor, Roger majored in…

Nathaniel S. Preston *60

Nathaniel Preston, a retired professor of government at American University in Washington, D.C., died Nov. 27, 2009 from a fall. He was 81. At age…

Bertrand A. Goldgar *58

Bertrand Goldgar, the John N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities and the longest-serving faculty member in the history of Lawrence University (Wisconsin), died Oct. 14, 2009…

Norval White *55

Norval White, an architect and co-author of the AIA Guide to New York City, died Dec. 26, 2009, of a heart attack. He was 83…

John B. Hughes ’47 *53

With Jack’s death Dec. 5, 2009, we lost a wonderful classmate. Returning to Princeton after Army service during World War II, Jack became an avid…

Roger A. Hornsby *52

Roger Hornsby, professor emeritus of classics at the University of Iowa, died Oct. 20, 2009, at the age of 83. Hornsby received a bachelor’s degree…

Edward Seckel ’43 *48

A professor of aeronautical engineering at Princeton for 25 years before he retired in 1977, Ed died Sept. 28, 2009, at the University Medical Center…

Howard Julian White Jr. ’42 *47

Howard White died of Alzheimer’s disease Jan. 7, 2010. Howie was born in Batavia, N.Y., in 1920, the son of a DuPont Corp. executive, and…

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2023: Lives Lived & Lost

PAW Published memorials for 569 alumni in 2023, and in this issue, we reflect on 13 of those lives, the impact they had on Princeton, their families, and the world.

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