MEMORIALS
Douglas Gillespie Thomson Jr. ’42
DOUG DIED suddenly on July 29, 1992, of heart failure, in Tenafly, NJ, his home for the past 40 years. He had retired three years…
Mac Asbill Jr. ’42
THE CLASS LOST a loyal member and an outstanding attorney when Mac died May 21, 1992, in Potomjc, Md., his home for most of his…
Howard Morton Clark ’42
HOWIE DIED of a ruptured appendix on Mar. 17, 1992, at medical facility in Seclona, Ariz., his home since 1990. He and Duckie, his wife…
James Merritt Keels ’42
JIM DIED Mar, 23, 1992, in Point Pleasant, NJ,, his home for the past ten years. At the time of his death, Jim retired from…
Edward Sampson Jr. ’42 *50
ED DIED Jan. 4, 1992, of Alzheimer's disease, in Boulder, Colo., his home for nearly 40 years. He devoted his entire career to teaching civil…
David Lee Welsh ’42
DAVE DIED of lung and brain cancer Jan. 11, 1992, in Great Falls, Mont. He was a retired mining engineer, having spent his entire career…
Christian Godfrey Gunther ’42
CHRIS DIED in 1983 on the island of Cyprus, where he had been born. The Class learned of his death in late 1991, as his…
William John Gemmel Jr. ’42
BILL DIED Nov. 19, 1991, in Bay St. Louis, Mo., his home for many years. After spending his entire career in the sale and marketing…
Daniel Irving Larkin ’42
Daniel Larkin, teacher, actor, and writer, died June 16, 2006, in Amherst, N.Y. A graduate of Nichols School in Buffalo, he achieved honors in English…
Edgar Dutcher Romig ’42
Ed, rector of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C., for nearly three decades, died June 13, 2006, of a stroke. He was 84…
Thomas Dickson Jr. ’42
TOM DIED of cancer Oct. 19, 1991, in Bridgeton, N.J., his home for 45 years. He had devoted his entire business career, starting in 1946…
Marshall Erwin Harrison ’42
MARSH DIED Oct. 11, 1991, after a long battle with cancer, in Woodbridge, Conn. At the time of his death he was active as a…
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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