MEMORIALS
Richard C. Conroy ’55
Dick died June 4, 2020, of kidney failure in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 86. He was born Dec. 28, 1933, in Bloomfield, N.J…
Charles Swift ’54
Charlie died July 1, 2020, of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He prepared at Belmont (Mass.) Hill School. At Princeton he majored in mathematics and joined…
Eugene Lewis Wishod ’53
Gene died Feb 14, 2020, in Ridgefield, Conn. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and came to Princeton after graduating from the James Madison High…
William Clayton Torrey ’53
Bill died Feb. 21, 2020, at his home in Phoenix, Ariz. He was born in Detroit, Mich., but his family moved soon after to Bermuda…
George John Miller ’53
George was born in Bradford, Pa., and came to Princeton from Bradford High School. He was one of eight Millers in his family to attend…
James K. Fulks Jr. ’53
James was born in Detroit, Mich., and came to Princeton from Culver Military Academy. He joined Elm Club, majored in geology, and wrote his senior…
Philip Stockton May Jr. ’52
Phil served in the Army after graduation from Robert E. Lee High School and before coming to Princeton. He majored in history and ate at…
Charles R. Krigbaum ’50 *52
Charlie, an eminent organist and professor emeritus of music at Yale, died April 30, 2020, of COVID-19 in Beverly, Mass. A colleague noted: “He leaves…
Charles R. Krigbaum ’50 *52
Charlie, an eminent organist and professor emeritus of music at Yale, died April 30, 2020, of COVID-19 in Beverly, Mass. A colleague noted: “He leaves…
John J. Pohanka ’49
John came to Princeton in 1945 from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., where his father had maintained an Oldsmobile dealership since 1919. While on…
Theodore N. Pockman ’49
Ted died April 2, 2020, in Albuquerque, N.M., his home after his retirement. The cause of death was complications 0f COVID-19. Ted came to Princeton…
John S. Abbott ’49
John died peacefully Nov. 8, 2019, in Jacksonville, Fla., just one week shy of his 92nd birthday. John worked for many years in the insurance…
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.
PAW IN PRINT
January 2026
Giving big with Kwanza Jones ’93 and José E. Feliciano ’94; Elizabeth Tsurkov freed; small town wonderers.
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