MEMORIALS
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…
Fred Chu ’67
Fred died Oct. 31, 2017, in St. Louis as a result of pancreatic cancer. A University Scholar, Fred majored in biology, was a member of…
Bill Black ’67
Bill died March 18, 2017, of a recurrence of lymphoma. Bill came to Princeton from Paducah, Ky., where he lived the remainder of his life…
John P. Withers Jr. ’65
John died Aug. 20, 2018, at home in Los Altos, Calif., after a lengthy battle with pulmonary fibrosis. During his final months he even flew…
Joseph M. Sisco ’65
Joe died July 20, 2018, in Sioux Falls, S.D. Born in Chicago, he grew up in Oak Park, Ill., playing baseball, captaining the football team…
George Finkelstein ’65
George died Sept. 2, 2018, in São Paolo, Brazil, and was buried in the Israeli Cemetery of Butanta there. He, along with classmate Mark Granovetter…
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
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