MEMORIALS
Andrew J. Packer ’72
Andy, an enthusiastic classmate who participated fully in our class events, died at home in Hartford, Conn., Dec. 22, 2024, surrounded by his family. Andy…
Michael A. Marrese ’72
Mike died in New York City Dec. 26, 2024. He was a devoted Catholic and known to his family and friends as a rock of…
William P. Trotter ’70
Our friend Bill died Aug. 25, 2024, after serving for decades in his own private artistic purgatory. Growing up the son of a dean at…
Stephen E. Palmer ’70
Steve the very image of a teaching intellectual, died of multiple systems atrophy at his retirement home in New Mexico July 29, 2023. He came…
Mark LaMonte Cottrell ’70
One of our spirited Jerry Garcia loyalists, Monte died June 4, 2024, of respiratory failure in Sacramento, Calif. He came to us from Shawnee Mission…
John Patrick Apel ’70
Pat, whose search for knowledge and combativeness in the arena were each equal to anyone in the class, died Nov. 29, 2024. He came to…
Louis H. Reich ’66
Louis died Jan. 3, 2025. He came to Princeton from the Horace Mann School, where he was president of the glee club, business manager of…
William D. Sherman ’64
Bill died Aug. 31, 2024, in San Francisco, with his family by his side. He grew up in San Francisco and came to Princeton from…
Peter S. Goltra ’64
Peter died June 10, 2024, at his home in Middleburg, Va., in June. He was born in Chicago and attended Deerfield Academy before coming to…
Michael W. Lewars ’63
Mike, a senior executive with Procter & Gamble, died Jan. 2, 2025, at his home on Bainbridge Island, Wash., where he had retired and built…
Thomas M. Conrad ’63
Tom died Jan. 17, 2025, surrounded by family in a hospital near his home in Tellico Village, a retirement community in Loudon County, Tenn. He…
Charles M. Swift Jr. ’62
Charley died Dec. 30, 2024, in Berkeley, Calif. He came to us from Phillips Exeter, where he participated in crew. At Princeton, he majored in…
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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