MEMORIALS
George Robert Carr ’44
George, known to us also as "Bob" during our campus years, died July 2, 2007, in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 87. Born in Syracuse…
Ralph E. Close ’44 *53
Wally died Dec.13, 2005, in Florida. A scion of two longtime Princeton families, he was born in Lebanon, where his father, Harold Close '10, was…
Charles Wood Dithrich ’44
Charlie died Oct. 20, 2005, in Edgeworth, Pa., outside his native Pittsburgh. A first-grade teacher couldn't get him to write with his right hand instead…
Charles F. Hazelwood Jr. ’44
"Pete" Hazelwood died Aug. 8, 2005, near his home and family cabin in Weyauwega, Wis. He had a love of life in everything he found…
Harry Croft Bickel ’44
Harry, a 50-year resident of Chattanooga, Tenn., where he was a renowned realtor and builder, died in his home Sept. 13, 2005. He was a…
Richard Mateer Douglas ’44
Dick died Aug. 29, 2005, in Needham, Mass., not far from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was revered as an inspiring head of…
John A. Mann ’44 *50
John died Sept. 19, 2004, in Yorba Linda, Calif., after battling cancer. He was 82. "I was destined to be a Princetonian," he wrote in…
William Trubee Haebler ’44
Bill died July 15, 2005. We knew him as both "Trub" and "Bill," but after his adoption by his stepfather, it was "Bill." We also…
William Dana Archbold ’44
Bill died Aug. 4, 2005, in his home outside Toronto. His life rose from the simple to the sublime. He spent early summers along Canadian…
Edward Madden Bigler ’44
Ed died Aug. 9, 2005, in Greenwich, Conn. He and his wife of 43 years, Renee Holt Bigler, also had a home on John's Island…
Eugene Holland Jr. ’44
Euie died June 24, 2005, in Kenilworth, Ill., where he'd been as active as he was at Princeton. He was our second class president after…
Charles E. Denney ’44
Chuck Denney died Feb. 1, 2005, in Delray Beach, Fla. He went further than any member of '44 in film acting: He was Meryl Streep's…
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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