MEMORIALS
Robert McKay ’50
Bob died June 26, 2006, in Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital after a long illness. He was 81. Bob left Loomis School at 18 to join the…
Edward Ward Purnell ’50
DR. EDWARD W PURNELL died of lung cancer in Cleveland on Oct. 8, 1993. He was 65. At the time of his death, he was…
Hugh Hamilton Wilson ’50
HUGH WILSON died April 26, 1990. After a teaching career in English, which had taken him from the Univ. of Wisconsin, to Rutgers, to Wagner…
Gordon M. Loos ’50
Gordon died Feb. 3, 2006, in Haverford, Pa., of complications from liver disease. Gordon was born in Nanjing, China, but grew up in Princeton. He…
F. Alexander Waters III ’49
Sandy died June 17, 2003. He was 79. He prepared for Princeton at Kent School and served as a Naval aviator in the Pacific during…
Charles A. Webster ’49
Chuck died Jan. 30, 2005, while residing near Washington, D.C. He was 81. A graduate of Clinton (Ind.) High School, Chuck came to Princeton as…
Samuel R. Boggs II ’49
Sam died of heart failure July 24, 2005. He was 77. He prepared for Princeton at Jenkintown (Pa.) High School. Sam majored in history at…
Murrray Peabody Brush III ’49
Murray died Dec. 13, 2003. He was 74. He prepared at California Prep and followed his father and both grandfathers to Princeton, where he majored…
Louis A. Muinzer ’49 *56
Louis died Sept. 8, 2004. He was 76. Louis prepared for Princeton at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Ind. At Princeton he majored in English…
S. Dunham Wilson ’49
Dunham died April 11, 2004. He was 76. Dunham prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville and served in the Navy from 1945-46 in the Pacific theater…
Herman H. Isacs III ’49
Herm died Apr. 2, 2003; he was 75. He came to Princeton from LaSalle Military Academy. At Princeton he majored in politics, and was a…
Leroy Frantz Jr. ’49
Lee died on Oct. 5, 2002, of pancreatic cancer. He was 74. He came to Princeton from Deerfield Academy and served in the Army from…
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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