MEMORIALS
William D. Wu ’61 *79
Bill succumbed to lung cancer Dec. 18, 2007, while traveling in Shanghai, the city of his birth. Long before his death he had become an…
Hugh Bell Ogburn ’45 *55
Hugh Ogburn died Oct. 23, 2007, at his home in Honolulu. Hugh entered Princeton from Westville (N.J.) High School and joined Dial Lodge. Accelerating his…
Frederick Seitz *34
Frederick Seitz, a distinguished physicist and president emeritus of Rockefeller University, died March 2, 2008. He was 96. Seitz received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford…
John Garrett Penn *68
John Garrett Penn, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C., died Sept. 9, 2007, of cancer. He was 75. Penn graduated…
Howard S. Merritt *58
Howard S. Merritt, a longtime professor of art at the University of Rochester, died peacefully June 25, 2007, at the age of 92. Merritt earned…
Rex D. Davis *66
Rex D. Davis, former director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) who started out by arresting “moonshiners,” died Jan. 7, 2008…
Houston Flournoy *56
Houston Flournoy, a political-science professor who spent 14 years in California state politics, died Jan. 7, 2008, of heart failure. He was 78. A graduate…
Frederick E. Balderston *53
Frederick E. Balderston, emeritus professor of the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, died Oct. 18, 2007, of emphysema. He was 84. A…
William Whipple Jr. *36
William Whipple Jr., a retired Army brigadier general, Rhodes scholar, and civil engineer, died Aug. 23, 2007, in Princeton. He was 98. Whipple graduated from…
Paul F. Norton *52
Paul F. Norton, an emeritus professor and founder of the University of Massachusetts’ art department, died Aug. 26, 2007, after a short period of declining…
J. Edward Lundy *40
J. Edward Lundy, a retired Ford Motor Co. executive who joined the company with Robert McNamara and eight other World War II veterans known as…
Karen M. Kirby *75
Karen M. Kirby, a mathematician and insurance actuary, died July 19, 2007. She was 57. Kirby was the valedictorian of her Garden City (N.Y.) High…
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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