MEMORIALS
Peter C. Speers Jr. ’44 *49
Peter died Feb. 8, 2010, in Austin, Texas, where he had lived since his retirement in 1981. Born and raised in India by missionary parents…
Logan Chappell Bostian ’44 *49
Logan died April 8, 2010, in Williamsburg, Va. He was 87. A chemistry major at Princeton, he roomed with Bob Claytor, Ben Burns, and Tom…
John J. Simonetti III *81
John Simonetti, an expert in materials science, died Dec. 24, 2009, at home. He was 60. Simonetti received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1972…
Albert James Fenton Jr. ’54 *59
Jim died March 8, 2010, of colon cancer. Born in Passaic, N.J., he graduated from Willoughby Union High School. His Princeton major was chemistry. He…
Wesley R. Smith *57
Wesley Smith, a professor of physics at Lehigh University for 43 years, died Jan. 2, 2010, at the age of 81. Smith received bachelor’s and…
Henry John Fitzell Jr. ’44 *54
A career educator who earned his bachelor’s ( cum laude), master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in modern languages and literature from Princeton, John died Feb. 2…
John Krom Rudd ’38 *39
John K. Rudd died Jan. 23, 2010, at his home in Lakeville, Conn. John prepared for Princeton at Asheville School in Asheville, N.C. At Princeton…
Alan S. Zuckerman *71
Alan Zuckerman, a professor of political science who had taught at Brown University since 1970, died Aug. 20, 2009. He was 64. Zuckerman received a…
Franklin A. Cleland *54
Franklin Cleland, a longtime research scientist with Shell Development Co., died Dec. 20, 2009, at the age of 81. Cleland graduated from Texas A&M University…
Joseph M. Starita *70
Joseph Starita, a chemical engineer who led corporations in engineering and manufacturing, died Nov. 17, 2009, of brain cancer. He was 65. Starita received a…
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…
Memorial PAWcasts
Remembering Hendrix Niemann ’73
‘A relationship with Drix, even in business, it was personal. You couldn’t be with him ... and not treat it as a friendship that you either wanted to develop or…
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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