MEMORIALS
Gardner W. Beckett Jr. ’46
GARDNER BECKETT DIED Mar. 22, 1993, in Tampa, while arguing a racialdiscrimination suit in the federal court there. Gardner was born in Tampa and grew…
William B. Hawke Jr. ’46
BILL HAWKE DIED May 18, 1993, just after moving to Charleston, S.C., where he had hoped to enjoy his retirement next to the ocean, which…
David A. Miller ’46
DAVE MILLER DIED Oct. 3, 1991, in Forestville, Calif., but the class did not hear of his death until recently. Dave was raised in Wellesley…
Robert A. Solow ’46
DR. ROBERT SOLOW died July 30, 1993, after a valiant battle with cancer. He was born in Newark, N.J., Sept. 11, 1925, and attended Kearny…
Kingman Bassett ’46
KINGMAN BASSFIT DIED Aug. 22, 1993, at his summer home in Rose Hill, Canada, after a long and courageous fight against prostate cancer. King was…
George Munn Hanford ’46
The summer of ’42 brought John to Princeton from Kent School, where Spanish had become his “foremost love in matters academic,” he said. The winter…
John W. Carr ’46
Jack Carr died in hospice care in Danvers, Mass., Aug 20, 2006. His wife of 15 years, Marjorie Vietor Kittedge, was by his side. Born…
George S. Indig ’46
George S. Indig died July 30, 2006. Born in New York City, he earned a bachelor’s in engineering at Princeton, where he played varsity football…
Alan Jones Kirsch ’46
Alan Kirsch, of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., died July 4, 2006, of cancer. He grew up in Bala Cynwyd and graduated from the Lawrenceville School. He…
William James Baird ’46
Bill Baird died of cancer June 16, 2006, in West Vancouver, British Columbia, where he had lived since 1972 with his wife, Anne. Born in…
Silas L. Warner ’46
SI WARNER DIED in San Francisco Nov. 20, 1993. He entered Princeton from Choate in June 1942 arid received his Princeton degree in 1945 after…
John George Kemeney ’46
JOHN KEMENEY '46 *49 h7l, distinguished mathematician, president of Dartmouth College, and creator of the computer language BASIC, died Dec. 26, 1992. He was 66…
Memorial PAWcasts
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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