MEMORIALS
Willem Hendrik Van Breda Kolff ’45
On Aug. 22, 2007, the class lost arguably its most colorful member with the death of Bill “Butch” van Breda Kolff. Butch prepared at The…
Thomas Buchan Hartmann ’45
On Nov. 7, 2007, the class lost one of its stalwarts with the death of Tom Hartmann. Tom entered Princeton from Andover, played freshman and…
Charles Eugene Wagner ’45
Charles Wagner died Oct. 5, 2007, in Louisville, Ky. Chuck entered Princeton from Mercersburg Academy, following in the footsteps of his father, Daniel Wagner 1904…
Christy Wilkes Bell ’44
Christy died Aug. 3, 2007. He was 84 and from an extended Princeton family. Born in New York, his father was Samuel D. Bell ’13…
William Smith Warfield IV ’42
William Smith Warfield IV died of congestive heart failure Oct. 30, 2007. Bill came to Princeton from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. His…
John C. Richards ’42
Jack graduated first in his class at Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, N.Y. At Princeton he majored in chemistry, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa…
John Montague Ely Jr. ’41
Jy died March 30, 2007, from complications following surgery, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A descendant of one of Cedar Rapids’ founding families, his father was…
Robert Gunther McCullam ’41
Bob died March 21, 2007, after a long and courageous bout with cancer. He came to Princeton from the Pingry School, where he was president…
Oliver Hershman Havens ’39
Ollie died Oct. 28, 2007, in Florida of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He came to us from Westfield (N.J.) High School, where he was class…
David Scott Thompson ’39
Dave died Oct. 30, 2007, at Monroe Village in Jamesburg, N.J., a retirement community where he and his wife, Barbara, were living in order to…
Norman McClave Jr. ’34
Norm McClave, who worked at Northern Trust Co. in Chicago from 1934 to 1977 and retired as a senior vice president, died Nov. 16, 2007…
F. Tremaine Billings Jr. ’33
F. Tremaine “Josh” Billings Jr., Rhodes Scholar, gifted athlete, and respected professor of medicine, died Sept. 16, 2007, in Nashville, Tenn. He was 95. Josh…
Memorial PAWcasts
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
October 2025
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott ’92; President Eisgruber ’83 defends higher ed; Julia Ioffe ’05 explains Russia.
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