MEMORIALS
John Miller Gayner III ’52
JOHNNY GAYNER died Oct. 14, 1987, in St. Vincent's Hospital, Jacksonville, F1a., from complications of severe cardiovascular disease. His funeral was in St. Mark's Episcopal…
W.W. Keen James ’51
Keen was born May 2, 1929, in Doylestown, Pa., and died of respiratory failure Sept. 16, 2005, in Albion, R.I. He was the son of…
James Mathews Mead ’51
Jim was born Nov. 4, 1928, in Erie, Pa., the grandson of John J. Mead, founder of The Erie Daily Times. He died July 21…
James Franklin Oates III ’51
Jim died of prostate cancer April 19, 2005, in Richmond, Va. He was the son of James F. Oates '21. A graduate of Phillips Exeter…
J. Lee McCormick ’51
Lee was born in New York City Jan. 26, 1929, son of the late Harold and Anita Burmester McCormick. He died April 23, 2004, in…
Philip Matter III ’51
Phil died of cancer Sept. 27, 2003. Born Aug. 3, 1929, in Marion, Ind., he was the son of Milton Matter '09, the nephew of…
William James Askin III ’51
Bill Askin died Oct. 30, 2003, of complications from bone marrow disease. Born in Pittsburgh in 1929, he came to us from Shady Side Academy…
Robert Alfred Barron ’51
Bob died of cancer Aug. 23, 2003, in Sarasota where he had retired in 1991. He came to us from Washington Irving HS in Tarrytown…
William Arthur Babson II ’51
Bill succumbed to ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) Aug. 17, 2001. He was 76. His father was Clifford Rea Babson '03. After serving in the Army…
Gerald Mortimer Mayer Jr. ’51
Gerry died of cancer and Parkinson's disease July 22, 2006, in Newbury, N.H. He was 77. He attended Eaglebrook School and Deerfield Academy prior to…
Richard Kates Paynter III ’51
When Dick died June 26, 2006, the class lost its longtime secretary. From 1966 to 2001 he wrote 700 columns for PAW and many memorials…
Donald G. McLean ’51
Don died May 7, 1998, of cancer. He was a former editor of the old Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and a conservationist. He joined the paper…
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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