MEMORIALS
Staffan Rosenborg ’45
Staffan Rosenborg died peacefully, of natural causes, on July 5, 1998, in Washington, D.C. His wife, Patricia Gilbert, an editor of the Natl. Geographic Society…
Reynolds Wait Bell ’45
Nick Bell died Feb. 7, 1997, at home after a long illness. Nick prepared at Hill School, following his father, John A. Bell Jr. '08…
John S. Hegeman ’45
Dr. John S. Hegeman died Mar. 3, 1998, in Bradenton, Fla., from complications associated with Parkinson's disease. John entered Princeton with the large contingent from…
Andrew Thompson Wiley ’45
Dr. Andrew "Andy" Wiley died Apr. 4, 1998, of a heart attack in his home in Columbia, Md. He entered Princeton from Morristown H.S., accelerated…
Robert Wilson Wigton Jr. ’45
Bob Wigton died May 2, 1998, a resident of Bryn Mawr, Pa. Bob was so loyal a class member that one would have thought he…
Walter Bastedo Jr. ’45 *47
Walter died Apr. 6, 1998, of a heart attack at home in Hendersonville, N.C. He was 75. He was born and schooled in Princeton. He…
Frank Sherman Clowney Jr. ’45
Frank Clowney died Jan. 1, 1998, at Alvarado Hospital Medical Center in San Diego. Frank suffered from poor health in recent years and was forced…
David Chew Stephenson ’45
Dave Stephenson died of leukemia July 4, 1997, at his home in Washington, D.C. At his services, classmates Talbot Chubb, Will Haley, Steve Palmer, and…
Charles Morris Forsyth ’45
Charles Forsyth died in his sleep, July 15, 1997, of cardiac failure. He was 74. Charlie was born in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Webster…
Benjamin Kelly Graves ’45
Ben Graves died May 20, 1997, at the Surry Community Nursing Center in Mt. Airy, N.C. Ben entered Princeton from Woodberry Forest Academy and from…
G. Robert Compton Jr. ’45
Bob Compton died Feb. 3, 1996 at Morristown [N.J.] Memorial Hospital, following a two-year battle with cancer and clinical depression. He was 71. Bob entered…
John Patrick Lyons ’45
John Lyons died in Florida, surrounded by family members, Feb. 27, 1997. He was 76. John grew up in a traditionally Irish environment in Newark…
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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