MEMORIALS
George Boyd Thomas ’56
George Thomas died of lymphoma at Boston U. Medical Center on July 1, 1996. He had planned to attend our 40th, but his illness prevented…
Richard L. Bonello ’56
Richard Leon Bonello died July 22, 1995, in San Diego, Calif. He was 60. Dick came to Princeton from Long Branch [N.J.] H.S., majored in…
George A. McMoran ’56
GEORGE MCMORAN DIED of cancer on Jan. 28, 1994, in his hometown, Greenwich, Conn. George came to Princeton from Bloomfield (N.J.) H.S. and majored in…
C. M. John Hofer ’56
JOHN HOFER died Oct. 9, 1992, of cancer at the age of 58. Born in Plainfield, N.J., John came to Princeton from the Hill School…
Henry Thomas Heald II ’56
HENRY DIED of heart complications in Miami, Fla., Oct. 7, 1990. He was born Dec. 9, 1933, in Grand Rapids, Mich., and grew up in…
Dickson William George III ’56
Dick died Jan. 4, 2006, in Mexico of complications from cancer treatment. Dick prepared for Princeton at St. Paul's. Concentrating in religion and Oriental studies…
Harvey Scott McMillin Jr. ’56
Scott McMillin died March 29, 2006, in Ithaca, N.Y. A native of Pittsburgh, Scott came to Princeton to study engineering, but after his introduction to…
Thomas B. Grootemaat ’55
Tom died May 15, 2004, in Naples, Fla. He was born in Madison, Wis., but grew up in Milwaukee. Tom attended the Milwaukee University School…
Morris Ruggles Brownell III ’55
Ruggles died March 14, 2007, at Renown Medical Center in Reno, Nev., following a valiant struggle against several diseases. He came to us from…
Ernest H. Ruehl ’55
Ernie Ruehl died Easter Sunday, Apr. 12, 1998, at his home in Orinda, Calif., after a long, hard-fought battle with prostate cancer. He was 64…
D. Verne McConnell ’55
Verne McConnell died July 22, 1996, at his home in Wheeling, W. Va., where he had lived for 23 years. He had been diagnosed with…
Chester Odlin French III ’55
CHET (LIN) died of throat cancer July 21, 1990, at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. Known to many of us as Lin, 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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January 2026
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