MEMORIALS
Lee Mannen Stapp ’51
Lee was born June 3, 1929, in Covington, Ky., and raised in Dade County, Fla., where he died Feb. 4, 2006, of congestive heart failure…
John R. Steigman ’51
We lost a good friend and honorary classmate when John died of cancer Oct. 31, 2006. He was 83. A graduate of Williams College, John…
Ralph Frew Peters ’51
Fly fisherman, wing shooter, conservationist, government bond trader, and loyal friend, "Tigger" died of prostate cancer July 20, 2006. He was 77. The son of…
Frank W. Beatty Jr. ’51
FRANK DIED of a stroke Nov. 10, 1993. At Princeton, he was a classics major, president of the yacht club, and a member of Dial…
Richard A. Korner ’51
DICK KORNER DIED of cancer Nov. 14, 1993. He was an outstanding member of the Governor Drummer Academy's Class of '45. At Princeton, he was…
William Logan Webb Jr. ’51
BILL DIED of cancer Dec. 14, 1993. He had been president and psychiatristinchief of the Institute of Living in Hartford since 1985. He was also…
Peter Benton Spruance ’51
PETER SPRUANCE died Sept. 27, 1992, suddenly and tragically in Newton, South Australia. Peter was born in Philadelphia, the son of Benton Murdoch Spruance, a…
David Williamson Jr. ’51
David Williamson, one of the founding fathers of America's space program, died Oct. 8, 1992, after a fall in hi home in Bethesda, Md., ending…
Louis Edward Tilden Jr. ’51
ED DIED June 27, 1992, at his home in Evanston, III., apparently of emphysema. His career was largely spent in fund raising for Northwestern Univ…
Robert Bernard Hybel ’51
THE REVFREND ROBERT B. HYBEL, retired rector of two Episcopal churches in Westchester County, N.Y., died June 27, 1992, after a long illness. At Princeton…
William M. Marquet ’51
SKIP DIED Jan. 11, 1992, in Jacksonville, while on a birding trip to the Everglades. He was born in Syracuse and graduated from Brooklyn Technical…
Willard Flaig Hamilton ’51
Will was born March 14, 1929, and went to Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J. His father was Stuart W. Hamilton '23. At Princeton 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.
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