MEMORIALS
John D. Velte ’49
John died June 6, 2015. He was the son of F.M. Velte 1915 and had many Princeton relatives. His parents were Presbyterian missionaries, and John…
Huntly G. Mayo ’49
Huntly died June 5, 2014, in Bronxville, N.Y. He had suffered a massive stroke in Cambridge, N.Y., his home since 1989, and was 87 years…
Jim Lebenthal ’49
Jim died Nov. 14, 2014, after 86 frantically busy years. You could not be near Jim without feeling his energy and enthusiasm, and somehow, no…
W. Barklie Henry ’49
Barklie died Oct. 29, 2014. He was born Nov. 18, 1927, in New York City and was raised on Long Island. Barklie came to Princeton…
Charles J. Hahn ’49
Jack died Feb. 24, 2014, at his home in Buffalo, N.Y. He came to Princeton from the Lawrenceville School and majored in basic engineering. Jack…
Otto Emil Lohrke Jr. ’46
In 1968, when a job change took Zeke from New Jersey to San Francisco, he and his family all became (in his words) “ardent Californians.”…
Jacob D. Bekenstein *72
Jacob Bekenstein, the Michael Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who revolutionized the study of black holes, died, unexpectedly…
Abner E. Shimony *62
Abner Shimony, who earned doctorates in philosophy and physics and was a professor in both fields, died Aug. 8, 2015. He was 87. Shimony graduated…
Arnold Brooks *56
Arnold Brooks, a retired technology manager at the General Electric Co., died July 24, 2015, at the age of 89. Brooks graduated from Columbia with…
James M. Hund *54
James Hund, retired professor emeritus of management at Emory University, died Sept. 13, 2015, at the age of 93. Hund graduated from Amherst College in…
Hartley Rogers Jr. *52
Hartley Rogers, professor emeritus of mathematics at MIT, died July 17, 2015, at age 89. Rogers graduated from Yale in 1946 with a bachelor’s degree…
Kelly B. Sponberg ’98
Kelly died Aug. 28, 2015, in Silver Spring, Md., of cancer. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and later moved to Bentonville, Ark. Kelly…
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
Giving big with Kwanza Jones ’93 and José E. Feliciano ’94; Elizabeth Tsurkov freed; small town wonderers.
Newsletters.
Get More From PAW In Your Inbox.
