MEMORIALS
Robert E. Pollock *63
Robert Pollock, distinguished professor of physics emeritus at Indiana University (IU), died peacefully Aug. 28, 2018, of Parkinson’s with Lewy body dementia. He was 82…
Léon-François Hoffmann *59
Léon-François Hoffmann, professor emeritus of French and Italian at Princeton, died May 25, 2018, at age 86. Born in Paris in 1932, Hoffmann and his…
Arthur A. Kovitz *57
Arthur Kovitz, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, died April 30, 2018, at the age of 89. The son of Polish-Jewish émigrés who…
David Pines *50
David Pines, a prominent physicist, died May 3, 2018, at age 93. Pines graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944, and served two…
Richard H. Bube *50
Richard Bube, professor emeritus of physics at Stanford, died June 9, 2018, at age 90. Bube graduated from Brown in 1946 and earned a Ph.D…
Patty Braverman Klein ’83
Patty died Sept. 19, 2018, of ovarian cancer. She came to campus from Birmingham Seaholm High School near Detroit. She dove with gusto into Princeton’s…
Nicholas E. Donatiello Jr. ’82
Nick died suddenly of natural causes June 26, 2018, at his San Francisco home. Nick came to Princeton from Livingston (N.J.) High School. A civil…
William C. Pate ’77
William died peacefully June 4, 2018, at Prestige Centre in Mount Pleasant, Mich. He was born Oct. 30, 1950, in Denver. William graduated from Princeton…
James L. Weiner ’72
Jim died peacefully Sept. 27, 2018, at his home in La Grange, Wis., of brain cancer that was first diagnosed in 2016. He was 68…
William T. Schmeling ’72
Bill died Sept. 20, 2018, in Muskego, Wis., after a long battle with cancer. He was 68 years old. A Wisconsin native, Bill came to…
Edwin S. Davis Jr. ’67
Ed died Feb. 17, 2018, in Beaufort, N.C. He came to Princeton from Weehawken, N.J., and the Peddie School, where he was an active art…
Bert H. Cohen ’68
Bert died unexpectedly Jan. 17, 2014, of kidney cancer. He came to the college from Belle Harbor, N.Y. A graduate of Far Rockaway High School…
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.
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