MEMORIALS
Thomas Burton Lewis ’51
Tom died of cancer on May 21,1989, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore. He retired from I.B.M. in 1987 after 33 years and was director…
Wilbur Wolff Couch ’51
Bill's life started and ended in Connecticut: He was born Sept. 12, 1929, in Bradford and was living in Sharon when he died Oct. 27…
Warren James Wittreich ’51 *54
Witt suffered a heart attack and died Oct. 3, 2005, in Bethlehem, Pa. At Princeton he majored in psychology, graduating summa cum laude and as…
Langthorne Sykes ’51
Lang was born Feb. 27, 1930, in Newark, N.J., and came to us from South Pasadena-San Marino High in California. He died July 17, 2005…
Hugh Morris Ghormley ’51
Hugh was born Aug. 13, 1929, in Seattle and died July 13, 2005, in Houston. He came to us from Woodrow Wilson High School in…
Edwin Thomas Lightcap ’51
A Jersey native, Ed was born Feb. 8, 1927, in North Bergen; he died Nov. 16, 2005, in Whiting after a long illness. He was…
William Waldron Lovering Jr ’51
Bill was born June 20, 1929, in Minneapolis and died June 17, 2005, after a three-and-a-half-year struggle with ALS. He graduated from Shattuck-St. Mary's School…
Charles William Stockton ’51
Charles was born Feb. 22, 1927, in New York, the son of Kenneth E. Stockton '14. He suffered major organ failures and died June 10…
C. Roger Williams ’51
Roger was born May 15, 1930, in Berkeley, Calif., and died Aug. 11, 2005, at home in Fairfield, Conn., of prostate cancer. He was the…
John A. Deery ’50
John died of prostate cancer Dec. 1, 2005, at his home in Mattapoisett, Mass. Born in Salem, Mass., John graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. At…
John A. Faill ’50
John died in Florida Sept. 19, 2005. John was born and raised in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and graduated from Ridley School in St. Catherine, Ontario…
Joseph W. Gordon ’50
Joe, our vice president from 2000 to 2005 and 55th reunion co-chairman, died Sept. 10, 2005, after a long struggle with diabetes in a hospital…
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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