MEMORIALS
Dale Fremont Sprankle ’53 *55
Dale grew up in Kingsport, Tenn., and came to Princeton from Redland High School. He majored in architecture and was a member of Quadrangle Club…
William T. Black Jr. ’53
Bill was born in Mount Holly, N.J., and graduated from Trinity School in New York City before coming to Princeton. He was a member of…
William E. Gilbert ’50
Bill died Oct. 26, 2021, in Hilton Head Island, S.C., where he moved in 2007 from his longtime home on Gibson Island in Maryland’s Chesapeake…
Joseph O. Rand Jr. ’48
Joseph died Aug. 5, 2021, at the Charles George Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Asheville, N.C. He had turned 95 about two months…
Joseph F. Cassin ’48
Joe, a resident of Glenside, Pa., died July 28, 2021, at age 94. Joe came to Princeton from Seton Hall Prep. He majored in biology…
Marshall Forrest ’40
Marshall, our last surviving member, died Jan. 12, 2022, in Medford, Ore. He was 103. Born in Chicago, he came to us from the Lawrenceville…
Louis A. Simpson *60
Lou died Jan. 8, 2022, in Chicago, after a prolonged illness. Born in Chicago Dec. 23, 1936, Lou attended Northwestern before transferring to Ohio Wesleyan…
Jonathan M. Brown *64
Jonathan died Jan. 17, 2022, at his home in Princeton. Born July 15, 1939, in Springfield, Mass., he graduated from Dartmouth in 1960 and earned…
Albert C. Dierckes Jr. *65
Albert died Nov. 11, 2021, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born June 15, 1938, in Covington, Ky. Albert earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering…
Robert S. Strichartz *66
Bob died Dec. 19, 2021, in Ithaca, N.Y., after a long illness. He was born Oct. 14, 1943, in New York. After graduating from Dartmouth…
William D. Irvine *72
Bill died May 14, 2021, of cancer in Toronto. Born in 1944 in British Columbia, Bill earned a bachelor’s degree in 1965 from the University…
Traci Schlesinger *06
Traci died Dec. 19, 2021, in Chicago. She was born April 14, 1976, in Dumont, N.J., where few of her friends or family had attended…
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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