MEMORIALS
Gerald Charles Johnson ’42
WORD HAS BEEN RECEIVED that Jerry died May 22, 1983, in Burlingame, Calif. His whereabouts had been unknown since the early 1980s. At the time…
George Lawrence Parmentier ’42
LARRY DIED Jan. 14, 1994, in Stuart, Fla of complications following a middleear infection. He spent his business career with DuPont. He retired in 1978…
Myron S. Melvin Jr. ’42
MYRON DIED at his home in Liverpool, N.Y., Mar. 12, 1994. A graduate of St. Louis College of Pharmacy, he devoted his entire business career…
Ellis Laurimore Phillips Jr. ’42
El, of Medfield, Mass., died Sept. 28, 2006. He prepared at Deerfield Academy and graduated from Princeton summa cum laude and as a member of…
John Ryckman Walbridge ’42
John, the son of Ernest A. Walbridge ’15, died Oct. 21, 2006, in Babylon, N.Y., after a long and happy life. Having prepared at Deerfield…
Gordon Bent ’42
Gordy, brother of the late William Bent ’41, died Sept. 19, 2006, at home in Lake Forest, Ill. A graduate of The Hill School, at…
Stuart Hamilton ’42
Stu, son of Samuel Hamilton 1910, died Sept. 19, 2006, in Glastonbury, Conn., after a period of declining health. A graduate of the Loomis School…
Shelby Rees Lee Jr. ’42
Shelby, grandson of James Lee Jr. 1853, died Dec. 30, 2005, in a hospice in Memphis. He prepared at the Harvey School and Hotchkiss. At…
William Henry Osborn Jr. ’42
BILL DIED Sept. 15, 1993, at his home in Locust Valley, N.Y. Having spent his entire business career in the securities field, he had retired…
Joseph Condon Hoopes ’42
JOE DIED of heart failure on Aug. 20, 1993, in Skagway, Alaska, while he and Betty, his wife of more than 50 years, were on…
Phillip Nathaniel Ellis Greene Jr. ’42
PHIL DIED Aug. 20, 1993, in Fair Haven, N.J., of a stroke during openheart surgery. He and Barbara, his wife of 51 years, had just…
John Avon Nevius ’42
A PRINCETON WINDSOCK dominated Jack Nevius's hospital room when he died Apr. 23, 1993, of lymphoma and Lou Gehrig's disease. The class lost a committed…
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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