MEMORIALS
Robert Maury Peers ’45
On June 28, 1996, cancer took Bob Peers with merciful rapidity. Bob entered Princeton from Trinity and became a member of Cannon Club. He played…
Henry Jay Melosh III ’45
Hank Melosh died Dec. 19, 1995, at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J., after a long struggle with leukemia. Hank entered Princeton from Holderness Academy and…
Haugan Weld Figgis ’45
Haugan Weld Figgis died Apr. 26, 1995, at Leelanau Memorial Hospital Care Center in Michigan, after a battle with cancer. Fig, after enrolling in M.I.T…
Charles J. Vermilye Jr. ’45
JOHN VERMILYE DIED Dec. 5, 1993. Since 1957, he had lived in Bethesda, Md. John came to Princeton from Taft in the fall of 1941…
Wilson Rufus Page II ’45
RUFUS PACE died Sept. 25, 1992, after valiantly combating throat cancer for several years. Appropriately, Rufe passed away in his boyhood city, Tulsa. Rufe, who…
John P. McComb Jr. ’45
JOHN MCCOMB died from a stroke on Mar. 1, 1992, at his retirement home in Englewood, Fla. A lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, he was a…
George F. Rand III ’45
GEORGE RAND died Aug. 8, 1991, in Buffalo, after a long battle with cancer. George, grandson of George F. Rand, a former president of Marine…
James Francis Bell III ’45
JIM BELL died Nov. 24, 1990, at his home in Antigua, Guatemala, where he is buried. Although Jim was with us for only our first…
William McCray Evans ’45
BILL EVANS died Jan. 22, 1991, at his home in Indianapolis, after a long and courageous battle with lymphatic cancer, Bill was a lifelong resident…
Selden Spaulding ’44
Our quiet painter died Oct. 31, 2005, in San Francisco. Denny, as he was known to most, was raised in Santa Barbara, Calif., and prepped…
John H. Van Ness ’44
Jack died May 28, 2005, in Venice, Fla., where he and his wife had lived for more than 20 years. He was buried in Arlington…
Thomas M. McMillan III ’44
A pioneering cardiologist in New Jersey for more than 40 years, Tom died April 7, 2005, in the former Burlington County Memorial Hospital (now Virtua…
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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