MEMORIALS
Robert Harold Messing ’59
BOB DIED in West Palm Beach Apr. 19, 1990. Coming to Princeton from the Choate School, Bob majored in sociology and was a member of…
Gordon Buell Ford Jr. ’59
Gordon died from natural causes May 6, 2007, at his home in Louisville, Ky. He was a noted scholar and esteemed professor whose brilliant career…
Leonard H. Bernheim Jr. ’59
Len died in New York on Sept. 19, 2000, of pancreatic cancer. Len prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville. A member of the freshman crew and…
C. Thornton Murphy ’59
Thornton Murphy died Oct. 12, 2001, of injuries sustained in a fall at his home in Batavia, Ill. Thornton grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, and…
Joel I. Tirschwell ’59
Joel died suddenly Oct. 6, 2006, in New York City. Born in New York, Joel attended James Madison High School there, where he was captain…
Frederick William Fitz ’59
WE LEARNED ONLY RECENTLY of the untimely death of Fred Fitz, from a heart attack, on Mar. 27, 1990. Fred came to Princeton from the…
James Worthington ’59
JAMES WORTHINGTON died Aug. 27, 1990, in Basra, Iraq. He had suffered a heart attack while being held hostage by the Iraqi government shortly after…
Frank G. Denig ’59
Frank died in Connecticut on Sept. 1, 2001, of multiple myeloma. A native of NYC, Frank majored in history at Princeton, took meals at Terrace…
Michael R. Zales ’59
Mike Zales, an exuberant son of Princeton, died May 4, 2000, at home in Tucson of heart disease. Born in NYC and raised in Stamford…
Henry Bartholomew Cox ’59
Bart Cox, a distinguished historian, died April 8, 2007, at his home in Fort Washington, Md. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Bart attended the…
Richard C. Morrison ’59
Dick Morrison died on May 1, 1999, following an angioplasty. Dick entered Princeton from Manchester H.S, in Manchester, Conn. He majored in physics, rowed crew…
Richard Allen Johnson ’59
WE LOST DICK JOHNSON to melanoma D", 22, 1990. He died in Cumberland, Md., where he was born and raised, and where he spent most…
Memorial PAWcasts
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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