MEMORIALS
Blair E. Olmstead ’49
Blair died March 18, 2022, in Charlotte, N.C. He was a son of Paul Olmstead 1919 and came to Princeton from Carteret (N.J) Academy. After…
John Schofield ’48
John died March 10, 2022, in North Branford, Conn. He was 93. Born in Timperley, England, John came to the United States in 1940 at…
Edgar Beugless Jr. ’48
Edgar died Feb. 10, 2021, at 93. He was born in Wilmington, Del., and lived there before his family moved to Louisville, Ky. Edgar graduated…
John Howell Mitchell ’45
John died Jan. 19, 2020. He was a descendant of Edward Howell, an English settler, on both sides of the family. His ancestors had strong…
Francis Xavier Newman *63
Frank died Nov. 25, 2021, in Silver Spring, Md. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1932. The first in his family to attend a…
Robert E. Garrison *65
Bob died Nov. 26, 2021, in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was born Oct. 25, 1932, in Texas and graduated from Stanford in 1955 with a…
William Francis Burns *69
Bill died June 5, 2021, in Carlisle, Pa. Born in Scranton, Pa., in 1932, he graduated from La Salle College in 1954. He earned an…
Francisco Swett *74
Francisco died Jan. 27, 2022, in Quito, Ecuador, at the age of 74. He was born Oct. 26, 1947, in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador. After earning…
Gwendolyn J. Gordon *14
Gwen died Jan. 1, 2022, in Philadelphia. She was born May 14, 1980. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell in 2002 and a law…
Edward J. Cotter *63
Ed died May 13, 2022, in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was 85 years old. Ed graduated from Tufts in 1958. He began graduate school at the…
Joseph Andrew Ball *63
Joe, who lived in Laramie, Wyo., died April 13, 2021, at a Loveland, Colo., hospital as the result of a fall. He was 88 years…
Gary C. Breitweiser *61
Gary died Dec. 8, 2021, in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was born Jan. 28, 1937, in Alton, Ill. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Northwestern…
Memorial PAWcasts
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.
PAW IN PRINT
December 2025
Judge Michael Park ’98; shifts in DEI initiatives; a night at the new art museum.
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