MEMORIALS
R. Porter Smith ’44
PORTER DIED in his sleep Apr. 13, 1991 ' of a heart attack. He had suffered from chronic emphysema. He grew up in Baltimore and…
Bernard S. Heringman ’44
BERNIE CAME to Princeton from the Park School, where he was active in basketball, student government, and publications. He left in 1942 to get his…
Robert Gillespie Brown ’44
BROWNIE'S TOUGH OLD HEART gave out Jan. 11, 1993, in the Norwalk Hospital, after a long illness. The last year of his life was difficult…
John N. Gatch ’44
JOHN JOINED us at Princeton from Exeter, following in the footsteps of his father, John '14, and uncle Loren '13. His interesting life ended Dec…
Richard Eugene Marsh ’44
"RICH," TO HIS FAMILY, "Dick" to his friends, died Oct. 25, 1992, after a very courageous and dignified battle with cancer and complications from diabetes…
J. Ness Van Philip Jr. ’44
A SUDDEN HEART ATTACK took Van Ness in his home in Claverack, N.Y., Oct. 27, 1992. He had emphysema. He was an admirable man. At…
Richard Tilton Silvers ’44
DICK SILVERS died of a massive stroke June 12, 1992, in Cleveland. A diabetic from childhood, he had suffered a double amputation in 1986, severely…
Dunstan Graham ’44 *47
DUNSTAN DIED of cancer July 24, 1992, at the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J. Princeton, the town where he was born, and the…
Andrew Mitchell Underhill Jr. ’44
ANDY, DEVOTED MEMBER of the Class and the university, died Aug. 29, 1992. After years of ill health, his gallant old heart failed finally, giving…
Anthony Hass ’44
TONY DIED at his home in Washington, D.C., on July 13, 1992, after a courageous fight against cancer. Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1923, he…
Robert Osborn Jr. ’44 *48
BOB OSBORN died June 5, 1992, following a yearlong illness. His wife, Patricia jean Norman, preceded him in death in May 1987. He is survived…
Griffith Edwards Thomas ’44
PETE DIED in his sleep, at the Maplewood Nursing Home, Westmoreland, N.H., July 20, 1992, after an almost tenyear struggle with Alzheimer's disease. It was…
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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