MEMORIALS
Howard R. Witt *59
Howard Witt, professor emeritus and retired dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Oakland University in Michigan, died Oct. 18, 2015, at…
Thomas E. McGill *58
Thomas McGill, who had been the Hales Professor of Psychology at Williams College, died Nov. 26, 2017, at the age of 87, after a brief…
Donald P. Gaver Jr. *56
Donald Gaver, who had been a distinguished professor of operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School, died Feb. 11, 2018, at home in Monterey, Calif…
John T. Craig *50
John Craig, whose work involved foreign aid in a six-decade career with USAID and the State Department, died Feb. 3, 2018, of complications of Alzheimer’s…
Hugh F. Young Jr. ’72
Hugh died Sept. 12, 2018. His wife of 47 years, our classmate Gayle Glidewell Young, and his four children were present. Hugh came to Princeton…
Charles R. Dressel ’71
Chuck died Jan. 22, 2018, in River Forest, Ill., after a long battle with late-onset bipolar disorder and progressive heart disease. He entered Princeton after…
Joe Dehais ’71
Joe died Jan. 10, 2018, of complications from diabetes. Born in Glens Falls, N.Y., he grew up there and in Waterville, Maine, where he prepped…
Clifton H. Hawley III ’69
Cliff died May 2, 2018, in Atlanta, the community in which he had lived since he was 9. The president of the student body at…
Theodore J. Ronca ’67
Ted died June 6, 2016, after a monthlong battle with multiple myeloma. He graduated from Brooklyn Poly Prep, where he ran cross country and track…
Phillip F. Erkenbrack III ’65
Phil died July 24, 2005, in Las Vegas from congestive heart failure. He came to us from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Va. At…
Mark L. Holmes ’60
Mark died Aug. 17, 2018, after a struggle with cancer. Tulsa (Okla.) Central High School produced a bumper crop of four Tiger cubs in 1956…
Richard A. Carrick ’60
Rick died Sept. 12, 2018, of complications from colon cancer. Rick joined us from Haverford High School in suburban Philadelphia. At Princeton he entered Army…
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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December 2025
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