MEMORIALS
William Julius Thompson ’42
Bill Thompson died Sept. 21, 2007, in Greenville, S.C., of a ruptured appendix. He was born in Springfield, Mass., and prepared at the Loomis School…
Allen Caryl Bigelow Jr. ’42
Ace Bigelow died of prostate cancer Aug. 27, 2007, in Charlotte, N.C. A lifelong bachelor, he had lived in Charlotte for many years. Ace was…
Stephen Rogers Steinhauser ’42
Stephen Rogers Steinhauser was born in Newburgh, N.Y., in 1921 and died Aug. 11, 2007, in Sarasota, Fla., of complications of heart disease. Steve came…
Thomas Ely Taplin Sr. ’42
Tom, a generous philanthropist, died June 5, 2007, in Denver after a long illness. Tom prepared at Phillips Andover Academy. At Princeton, he earned honors…
John Davis A. Banks ’42
Dave died Nov. 29, 2005, under hospice care in Vero Beach, Fla. He prepared at the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. At Princeton, Dave majored…
Reuel Kimball Hartshorne ’42
Kim Hartshorne of Bay Point Harbor in Point Pleasant, N.J., died July 26, 2005, in Ocean Medical Center. He was 85. A talented musician and…
Henry Gouverneur Keeler Jr. ’42
After a lengthy illness, Hank died Sept. 23, 2005, in Vero Beach, Fla., where he and his second wife, Suzanne, spent the last several years…
James Coffin Harle ’42
Jim, a linguist and eminent historian and curator of Eastern art at Oxford University, died June 27, 2004. Having prepared at St. George's School in…
Richard La Meter Van Barre ’42
Dick, an advertising executive until an extraordinary career change, died June 29, 2004, at home in Cherry Valley, N.Y. President of the National Honor Society…
Sloan Young Bashinsky ’42
Sloan, a prominent businessman and the son of Leo Eli Bashinsky '13, died Aug. 2, 2005, in Birmingham, Ala. A cum laude graduate of Lawrenceville…
Arthur Ernest Mittnacht Jr. ’42
Art, an orthopedic surgeon devoted to his patients, family, friends, and Princeton, died July 14, 2005, of complications from leukemia in Pinehurst, N.C. A graduate…
Henry Grant Theis ’42
Grant, a pioneer in college radio, died July 7, 2005, in Los Angeles from complications of pneumonia. In 1940, while majoring in modern languages, Grant…
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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