MEMORIALS
Philip Bradley Bartholomay ’46
Phil died Aug. 7, 2002, of heart failure at his Santa Barbara, Calif., home. Graduating from the Cate School in 1942, he entered Princeton to…
Robert Ayres Furman ’46
Bob died Sept. 21, 2002, at University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Newark, N.J., he captained the basketball team at Phillips Exeter Academy and…
Ralph Emerson Davis Jr. ’46
Ralph died Nov. 13, 2002, of pneumonia near his home in Vail, Colo. Born in Pittsburgh, he prepped at Mercersburg Academy to enter Princeton in…
Aubrey Kenneth Gorman ’46
Aubrey died Aug. 26, 2002, of lung disease in Rockport, Maine, near his Camden home. A Baltimorean, he prepped at the Gilman School. Joining the…
Hyman L. Battle Jr. ’46
Hy died Mar. 6, 2002, at home in Sagaponack, N.Y., of cancer. A native of Rocky Mount, N.C. , where his father was president of…
S. Scott Spencer Jr ’46
Bud died May 9, 2002, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Typically, to the end, he bolstered the spirits of his beloved Debbie, partner of 51 years, and…
Judson Decker ’46
Jud died June 10, 2002, of a stroke, at his home in Birmingham, Mich. He came to Princeton from West Waterloo HS in the fall…
William Reese Spofford Jr. ’46
Bill died May 10, 2002, of cancer, at his home in Hilton Head, S.C. A Philadelphian, he came to Princeton in June 1942 from the…
Donald Ellis May ’46
Don died Jan. 23, 2002, in Camp Hill, Pa. Born to missionary parents in Paris, Don was schooled in Cameroon, Africa, and later at Mercersburg…
Philip Aziz Atiyeh ’46
Phil died Jan. 2, 2002, in Avon, Conn., where he had lived for the past 17 years with his wife of 50 years, Elaine. A…
Hyman L. Battle Jr. ’46
Hy died Mar. 6, 2002, of cancer at home in Sagaponack, Long Island. A native of Rocky Mount, N.C., where his father was president of…
Peele Beebe ’46
Peele died Jan. 13, 2002, in Santa Barbara, Calif., of lung cancer. A graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnical School, he played football and rowed crew. 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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