MEMORIALS
John S. Dickey Jr. *69
John Dickey Jr., scientist, author, and poet, died Oct. 8, 2019, of cancer at his home in Puerto Rico. He was 78. Dickey grew up…
Franz J. Moehn *67
Franz Moehn, the retired head chef at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, died Dec. 15, 2019. He was 88. Born in 1931 in…
Edward L. Claiborn *64
Edward Claiborn, professor emeritus of economics at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), died peacefully Jan. 15, 2019, at age 85. After graduating from the University…
Sufian Y. Husseini *60
Sufian Husseini, retired professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, died Dec. 30, 2017, at the age of 88. Husseini graduated from Rutgers…
Karl E. Meyer *56
Karl Meyer, a noted foreign correspondent and editorial writer for The Washington Post and The New York Times, died Dec. 22, 2019, at age 91…
Shinya Inoué *51
Shinya Inoué, an innovative microscopist and cell biophysicist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Falmouth, Mass., died Sept. 30, 2019, at age 98. Inoué…
James W. Clark *50
James Clark, who, served five U.S. presidents in the Executive Office of the President, and was the deputy director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory…
Suzanne Palminteri ’87
Sue died Nov. 30, 2019, after a vigorous fight with multiple myeloma. Sue was born in New Jersey on a small farm 90 minutes from…
Michael Franklyn Sligh ’82
Michael died March 17, 2019. Born May 2, 1960, in Fort Eustis, Va., he grew up in Long Branch, N.J., and graduated from Long Branch…
Robert Smith ’78
Bob died Jan. 9, 2020, after living a year with an untreatable neurological disease. A tenacious man and an unfailing optimist, he accepted his situation…
Frances Hoar Foster ’77
Frances died Oct. 4, 2019, in California. She graduated magna cum laude in Slavic languages and literatures. Her classmates remember her as a natural linguist…
Frederick Hewitt Smith ’75
With courage, dignity, and wry humor to the end, Fred died of pancreatic cancer on Nov. 18, 2019. The son of Frederick ’37 and Marjorie…
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
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