MEMORIALS
Francis A. Lovecchio ’54
Frank died suddenly May 16, 2006, following a brief illness. After his Princeton premed and football days, Frank attended medical school at the University of…
John W. Wood Jr. ’54
John died July 10, 2006, of pneumonia in Baltimore, Md. For the past four years, he had suffered from myotonic dystrophy. Despite his increasing disability…
Frank A. Hirsch ’54
Frank A. Hirsch died May 31, 2006. Born in Mount Kisco, N.Y., he prepared for Princeton at the Pingry School. While at Princeton he was…
Robert Hanson Birney ’54
Robert H. Birney died April 26, 2006. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from Triadelphia High School in Wheeling, W.Va. While at Princeton, he was…
John Gregory Dunne ’54
John Gregory Dunne died Dec. 30, 2003, of a heart attack. Born in Hartford, Conn., he graduated from Portsmouth Priory School. At Princeton, he majored…
Louis Richard Rukeyser ’54
Lou died May 2, 2006, after a long bout with cancer. He wasn't well enough to come to the 50th reunion. He wanted to be…
Donald Kenneth Woolley ’54
Kenneth Woolley died June 14, 2005, in Nashville following a brief illness. He prepared for college at North Plainfield (N.J.) High School. While at Princeton…
Samuel V. Noe Jr. ’54
Sam died March 4, 2006, after an extended struggle with pulmonary fibrosis. Born in Louisville, Ky., he graduated from the Louisville Male High School. At…
Phillip Edward Daum ’53
Phil died of esophageal cancer Oct. 14, 2007, at the Villages Hospice in The Villages, Fla. He attended Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh prior to…
Richard Drayton ’53
Dick, who was born in Chestnut Hill, Pa., and counted three signers of the Declaration of Independence among his ancestors, died of Pick's disease Oct…
Charles Derosear Hastings ’53
Chuck died Sept. 14, 2005, at home in San Jose, Calif., after living with cancer for many years. An "Army brat," he spent his youth…
James Wilbur Effron ’53
After a brief illness, Jim, our class president from 1996 to 1998, died of acute leukemia July 21, 2005. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is where it began…
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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