MEMORIALS
Samuel B. Vrooman III ’47
SAM VROOMAN died Jan. 16, 1992. He had generated warm, fond memories among all who knew him. For many of us they began in the…
Henry Disston II ’47
After a long struggle with cancer, Henry died Feb. 14, 2006. He was an engineer at Princeton, graduating in 1949 after service in the Air…
Harold MacKay Cashmore ’46
Mac died Dec. 5, 2005, in Virginia Beach, Va. He joined the class from the Pingry School in September 1942. An engineer, he served in…
Horace Y. Seidel III ’46
Hotch Seidel died Feb. 27, 2004, at his home in Hollywood, Fla., after a long illness. Born in Pottstown, Pa., he came from The Hill…
John M.T. Finney III ’46
John Finney died March 18, 2007, at age 85, in Lutherville, Md. The cause of his death was pneumonia. He was at Princeton for…
Robert G. O'Brien ’46
Bob O’Brien died Jan. 22, 2006, in Louisville, Ky. Bob, who also was known as “Obie,” entered Princeton in 1942 and joined the Army…
Thomas Vaughan McMahon ’46
Tom died Feb. 17, 2004, at his home in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, he came to Princeton from Poly Prep. In college he…
Edwin Leonard Knetzger Jr. ’46
Ed Knetzger of Bryn Mawr, Pa., died Dec. 27, 2003, of pulmonary fibrosis. Born in St. Louis, he came to Princeton in 1942 from Webster…
Robert E. Gajdusek ’46
A prolific author and poet, Robin died peacefully at home in California June 26, 2003. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., he entered Princeton in Jan. 1943…
Alexander L. Taggart III ’46
Sandy Taggart, a lifelong Indianapolis resident, died Sept. 27, 2003. Grandson of Alexander L. Taggart 1904, who founded the Colonial Baking Co. of which Sandy…
Samuel H. Kauffmann III ’46
Sam died Apr. 4, 2002, in Palm Springs, Calif., of cancer. He grew up in Washington, DC, where his father owned the Washington Evening Star…
Gilbert Post Von Totten ’46 *48
Gil died Mar. 8, 2002, of leukemia in East Tennessee, where he lived for 20 years on a horse ranch in a home that he…
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
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