MEMORIALS
John I. H. McGiffert ’37
Brilliant teacher, director, writer, and "saloon" piano player, Jack McGiffert died on May 10, 1989, of a heart attack. Jack was the class valedictorian at…
Victor Barnouw ’37
EMINENT ANTHROPOLOGIST Vic Barnouw, celebrated for his quick wit and his ability to come up with great puns, died on May 9, 1989, of pancreatic…
Yorke Allen Jr. ’36
Yorke Allen died on Apr. 6, 1989. He was born on Apr. 28, 1915, the son of Yorke Allen ’94 and Mary Findley Allen. A…
E. Avery McCarthy ’31
Ave McCarthy, who had been quite ill for several years, died on Feb. 7, 1989, in Pasadena, Calif. After graduation, Ave returned to California and…
John Warren Kaine ’31
John Kaine died on Jan. 28, 1989. He was one of the group that prepared at Exeter for admission to Princeton. Although he did not…
Donald S. Gilpatric ’31
Don Gilpatric died of emphysema on Jan. 30, 1989, in St. Augustine, Fla. Few classmates can match Don in the number and variety of assignments…
William Kenneth Boone III ’31
Bill Boone died in Mexico in Oct. 1988. He joined us at Princeton in our sophomore year but did not stay the course, withdrawing in…
Harry Norman Packer ’27
From his executor, Mr. Richard G. Hyer, we have learned of Harry's death, on Apr. 24. For many years, he lived in Forked River, N.J…
Edwin J. Dikeman Jr. ’27
Ed’s death, on May 7, 1989, closed a career that was distinguished by a devotion to finance, military service, athletics, and Princeton family tradition. He…
Pieter Willem Van Nuis *59
AFTER A courageous struggle with lung cancer, Pieter Willem van Nuis, 56, died on May 24, 1989, at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati. A native of…
James Morris Markham IV ’65
JIM MARKHAM died by his own hand in Paris on Aug. 9, 1989. He was about to return to the U.S. as a deputy foreign…
Thomas B. Miller ’64
TOM MILLER died suddenly on Nov. 1, 1989, in Evanston, Ill., less than one month after having been diagnosed as having lung cancer. He was…
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.
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