MEMORIALS
Carl Pope ’55
When the parents of Carl Pope delivered their baby boy in Jamaica, Queens, N.Y., May 17, 1932, they had absolutely no idea that they were…
Jean E. Smith ’54
Historian and biographer of presidents Grant, FDR, Eisenhower, and George W. Bush, and of Justice John Marshall, and Gen. Lucius Clay, Jean died Sept. 1…
Dwight C. Harris ’54
Dwight died July 11, 2019. He prepared for Princeton at Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wis., where he was active in football, basketball, and track…
Donald R. Weaver ’52
Doc came from Mercer (Pa.) High School and roomed with Mike Ely. He left at the end of freshman year and finished his college years…
William E. Davis ’51
Bill was born April 16, 1929, in Denver to Roblin 1907 and Margaret Davis, granddaughter of John Evans, Colorado’s second territorial governor. Bill came to…
John Herman Richard Polt ’49
John died in Oakland, Calif., April 12, 2019. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1929, John was educated in America, his Czech father having retired here. He…
Richard Bartholomae ’46
Dick died June 27, 2019. He was 93. Born in Detroit, Dick graduated from Chatham (N.J.) High School in 1942 and enrolled at Princeton, playing…
Herbert W. Hobler ’44
Herb died Aug. 10, 2019, at Stonebridge, in Skillman, N.J. He was 96. A Hill School graduate, at Princeton Herb was on the basketball and…
Amin Jafarian *16
Amin Jafarian, who earned a master’s degree in finance in 2016 from the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton and had been a lecturer there…
Douglas H. Keare *66
Douglas Keare, a retired international-development official with the World Bank, died Jan. 8, 2019, at the age of 84. Keare graduated from Dartmouth College with…
Myron Glazer *65
Myron Glazer, retired professor of sociology at Smith College, died Feb. 3, 2019, of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 84. In 1956 he graduated…
Michel L. Balinski *59
Michel Balinski, a major figure in bringing operations-research methodology to bear on the electoral process, died Feb. 4, 2019, in France. He was 85. Born…
Memorial PAWcasts
Remembering Hendrix Niemann ’73
‘A relationship with Drix, even in business, it was personal. You couldn’t be with him ... and not treat it as a friendship that you either wanted to develop or…
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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