MEMORIALS
Louis James Brangan ’60
Jim died of colon cancer April 13, 2006. He was raised in Lansdowne, Pa., but spent most of his adult life in Franklin Lakes, N.J…
Eric MacDonald Erskine ’60
Mike died May 3, 2004, in Baltimore from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Born in Denver, Mike came to Princeton from Evanston Township [Ill.] High School. Originally…
Baxter Hart Wrightson ’60
Baxter died March 13, 2005. Born in Los Angeles, Baxter was raised in Darien, Conn., and graduated from The Hotchkiss School. Following college, he served…
David M. Ransom ’60
David Ransom's heart stopped Dec. 4, 2003, at a time when his life was filled with great happiness. After 32 years of achievements in the…
Joseph Melville See Jr. ’60
On March 19, 2000, Mel See died in Arizona. He was 62. At Princeton, he majored in geology and joined Tiger Inn. He also played…
Alan McCarthy ’60
When Peter Williamson called to announce that Al McCarthy had died, he said, "there's been a death in the family." And indeed there has. Al's…
Alan Stewart McDowell ’60
Alan died June 16, 2006, at his home in Wayzata, Minn., after a long battle with prostate cancer. Alan came to Princeton from Hackley School…
John Tettemer O'Neill Jr. ’60
Jack, a longtime Princeton resident, died suddenly of a heart attack April 5, 2006, at his winter home in Key Biscayne, Fla. He was born…
Ivan Allen III ’60
IVAN ALLEN died in Franklin, Ga., on Sun., May 17, 1992. He was 53. Ivan was president of the Ivan Allen Co., and was an…
Willard Allen Speakman III ’60
Bill died of pancreatic cancer April 11, 2006, in Antigua, British West Indies. He prepared for Princeton at Westminster School and was vice president…
Carl Henry Kappes III ’59
The class lost one of its most exuberant members when Carl lost his tenacious battle with prostate cancer July 13, 2005. He had fought the…
Michael Patrick McCarthy ’59
Mike died unexpectedly July 3, 2005, when a blood clot formed following cardiac catheterization. Mike stopped breathing, and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. Mike…
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.
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