MEMORIALS
Richard Blackwood Plumer ’41
THE CLASS LOST a devoted member when Dick Plumer died of lymphoma Nov. 15, 1990. After high school in Miami, Dick spent a year at…
Edmund Waldemar Ill Jr. ’41
TED ILL DIED Nov. 2, 1990, of congestive heart failure in the Point Pleasant, N.J. hospital. He was 72. Ted was graduated from Lawrenceville. As…
Taliaferro Anderson ’41
NEITHER PRINCETON nor the Class had known the whereabouts of Taliaferro Anderson for many years. Knowing that he had been in the Woodberry Forest school's…
William Allen Bittel ’41
Bill Bittel, who was born Dec. 18, 1919, passed away at home in Monmouth Beach, NJ., Sept. 9, 1990, after a long illness. Bill prepared…
Francis Theodore Phllips Jr. ’41
TED PHILLIPS had a brother in '43, a father in '13, and uncles in '17 and '22, all of whom have passed on. And now…
J. Spencer Weed ’41
SPENCEWEED died July 28, 1989, in Scottsdale, Ariz. He had lived in Paradise Valley, with his wife, Mabel Ruth Viney. She survived him until Aug…
John Denton Brundage ’41
THE CLASS LOST its president for the years 1963-68 when John Brundage died at 70 of liver failure on Oct. 27, 1989, at his home…
Fendall M. Clagett ’41
FEN CLAGETT, a devoted spokesman for Maryland's thoroughbred horse owners and trainers, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 24, 1989, at Anne Arundel General Hospital…
Irving J. M. Kaplan ’41
IRVING KAPLAN, a former V.P. and member of the board of directors of Copperweld, died of lymphoma on July 22, 1989, in Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Univ…
John Robert Castles ’41
Belatedly, we received the information that John died in Chicago on Mar. 30, 1979. He came to Princeton from Chicago's Morgan Park Military Academy but…
Laurence Driggs Ely Jr. ’41
Larry died on Dec. 8, 1987, and is survived by two sons, including Laurence III '67, and one daughter. A brother, John M. '42, is…
Wilder Graves Penfield Jr. ’41
Wilder died of leukemia in Montreal on Oct. 1, 1988. He was one of two Canadians who joined our class in the fall of 1937…
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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