MEMORIALS
John Hardwick Ransom ’49
Jack, son of the late Julius Chalmers Ransom '20, died May 24, 1997. He came to Princeton from Exeter in 1945, but was drafted into…
William Earley Foster Jr. ’49
Bill Foster, son of the late William '08 and a 36-year resident of West Caldwell, N.J., died there Feb. 25, 1997. He was born in…
Arthur Jacobsen ’49
Art Jacobsen died Sept. 2, 1998, in Vero Beach, Fla., following a prolonged illness. Art prepared at Port Richmond H.S. in Staten Island, N.Y. He…
John Llewellyn Jirgal ’49
John Jirgal died Apr. 21, 1998, of leukemia, at home in Pearl River, N.Y., where he had lived for more than 40 years. John prepared…
Philip Alden Wilde Jr. ’49
Phil Wilde died June 25, 1997, following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 22, 1925, and made his home…
Thomas Quirk Ziegler ’49
Tom Ziegler, a retired anesthesiologist, died Aug. 9, 1995, at his Auburn, Calif., home. He prepared at James Ford Rhodes School in Cleveland. At Princeton…
Howard Moxley Giroward ’49
Bud Giroward died May 4, 1988, in Santa Ana, Calif. No cause of death was given in the Social Security Death Index. Howard had been…
Paul Victor Strumia ’49
Paul died July 4, 1994, at Bryn Mawr Hospital after a brief illness and complications from a brain tumor. He was born Feb. 29, 1928…
John Preston Barnhart ’49
John Barnhart died Dec. 30, 1997, of an aneurysm of the aorta. He was born Mar. 15, 1928, and came to Princeton from Isaac Young…
Lawrence W. Barss ’49
Larry Barss, a selfemployed economist and consultant, died of leukemia on June 24, 1996, at his home in Belmont, Mass. Larry was born in Boston…
Eric A. Corkhill Jr. ’49
Dr. Rick Corkhill, dedicated Main Line obstetrician and gynecologist, died Jan. 24, 1998. He had Alzheimer's disease and retired from practice in 1987 because of…
Harley M. Roberts ’49
Harley Roberts, a retired transportation and energy economist, died Apr. 5, 1998, at the Washington Hospital Center after heart surgery. Harley was born in Shanghai…
Memorial PAWcasts
Remembering Hendrix Niemann ’73
‘A relationship with Drix, even in business, it was personal. You couldn’t be with him ... and not treat it as a friendship that you either wanted to develop or…
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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