MEMORIALS
Hoyt Hayes Thompson ’50
Hoyt died Aug. 21, 2001, after a brief illness. He lived in the Kansas City area virtually his entire life, graduating from the Pembroke-Country Day…
Hoyt Hayes Thompson ’50
Hoyt died Aug. 21, 2001, after a brief illness. He lived in the Kansas City area virtually his entire life, graduating from the Pembroke-Country Day…
David Megaw Park ’50
Dave Park died on June 3, 2001 in Charleston, S.C., after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. Dave came to Princeton from the Haverford School…
Henry Collin Stambaugh ’50
Hank Stambaugh died Jan. 23, 1992. Not much is known of his later years except that he lived in central Indiana and was last reported…
Floyd Beachley Main ’50
After a brief struggle with cancer, "Beach" died peacefully on July 29, 2001, at his home in Fullerton, Calif. Born in Frederick, Md., Beach entered…
Mortimer Demott Kelly ’50
Mort died Nov. 17, 1986, in the Veterans Hospital in Lyons, N.J., after a long period of declining health. He prepared for Princeton at Exeter…
William Edward Maritz ’50
Bill died Feb. 26, 2001, after battling a recurrence of prostate cancer. Bill entered Princeton from John Burroughs School in his hometown of St. Louis…
William Samuel Costen ’50
Bill died of a heart attack on Jan. 13, 2001, at his home in Chesterfield, Mo. A native of St. Louis, he entered Princeton from…
Ronald L. Marsching ’50
Ron died at his home in Woodbury, Conn., on Feb. 7, 2001. Born Mar. 30,1927, in NYC the son of Robert '08, Ron served in…
Robert Lewis Smith ’50
Bob died of cancer on Mar. 4, 2001, at his home in Newton Square, Pa. A history major at Princetown, he earned his LLB at…
William S. Edwards ’50
After a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis, Bill died at his Charlottesville, Va., home on Nov. 28, 2000. He prepared for Princeton at St. Paul's…
Charles Lea Neely Jr. ’50
Charles died of cancer Aug. 22, 2000, at his home in Memphis. He came to Princeton from the Baylor School in Chattanooga. A biology major…
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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