MEMORIALS
Melville H. Bearns Jr. ’27
WE HAVE just received word of Buss's death Apr. 20, 1992, of heart failure at his farm in Warrenton, Va. Buss left Princeton in Feb…
Heber Smith Morris ’27
HEBE DIED Sept. 6, 1991. In '27's THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR RECORD he declared that his principal pastime was "the family," to which he could have added…
Donald Robert McLean ’27
DON, WHO DIED Aug. 9, 1990, inherited a long Princeton tradition. His greatgreat grandfather, Samuel Finley, was president, 176166, when Princeton was the College of…
Carl F. Fayen ’27
CARL DIED Sept. 29, 1990, in retirement at New Canaan, Conn. There he read, walked, golfed, played tennis, and enjoyed the senior men's club. He…
Nicholas Fletcher Palmer III ’27
Nick died on Aug. 1, 1989, in his 84th year, in West Palm Beach, Fla. After preparing at St. Mark's School and enjoying life at…
John Wahl Queen III ’26
Johnny died Apr. 6, 2004, at his winter home in Naples, Fla. He was 98. Born in Jersey City, N.J., his career in the steel…
A. Gilmore Flues ’26
Gil died Mar. 1, 2003, of congestive heart failure. He was 99. Born in Saginaw, Mich., and raised in Toledo, Ohio, Gil majored in English…
Lewis Rumford II ’26
Lew Rumford, well known in Baltimore and a loyal member of the class, died July 25, 1997, a cancer victim, at Broadmead, a retirement community…
Chester E McSpadden ’26
CHET MCSPADDEN, former advertising executive and always a loyal Tiger, died at his home in Glenview Place, Naples, Fla., Mar. 2, 1994. Chet was 90…
Robert McDougal Jr. ’26
BOB McDOUGAL, wellknown Chicago lawyer, excellent golfer, and supporter of childcare and minority causes, died of heart failure May 23, 1993. At Princeton, Bob was…
Dewitt Hendee Smith ’26
DeWitt, scholar, athlete, and distinguished physician, died Mar. 4, 1991, at Corvallis, Ore. A junior Phi Bete, DeWitt rowed on the crew and was a…
William J. Lonnquist ’26
BILL LONNQUIST, of Northfield, Ill., died on March 11, 1990, after a long Illness. Bill came to Princeton from Lake Forest Academy, was a member…
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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