MEMORIALS
William Vance Burley Jr. ’40
Bill died March 18, 2005, at Gregory Wing in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, surviving Lina, his wife of 60 years, by only eight weeks. He grew…
Reuben James Ross Jr. ’40
Rube died March 28, 2005. He prepared at St. George's School, following his father, Reuben 1913, to Princeton. He majored in geology, graduating with highest…
P. Philip Petito ’40
Pat died Feb. 7, 2005, at Morris Hall in Lawrenceville, N.J. He prepared at Trenton Central High School, then followed his late brothers, Frank '36…
Cleve Gray ’40
Cleve died Dec. 8, 2004, from a massive subdural hematoma suffered after a fall on ice. An artist to the end, he was working on…
Orman Weston Ketcham ’40
Orm died from cancer at his home Dec. 14, 2004. His beloved wife of 57 years, Anne Phelps Stokes "Bunty" Ketcham, was at his side…
John Ford Peckham ’40
John died Dec. 6, 2004, at Duncaster's Caleb Hitchcock Health Center in Bloomfield, Conn. He graduated from Torrington [Conn.] High School, where he was on…
Levi P. Smith Jr. ’40
Levi died Dec. 7, 2004, in Shelburne, Vt., after a year of failing health. Sybil, his wife of 53 years, said, "He died peacefully and…
Sydney Sayre Combs ’40
Our Son of Kentucky died Oct. 12, 2004, in Lexington after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease. After Woodberry Forest School, Syd majored in biology…
E. Brooke Lee Jr. ’40
Brooke died Aug. 20, 2004, of congestive heart failure at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He graduated from St. Paul's School in New Hampshire…
David Forgan Freeman ’40
Dave died July 4, 2004, "very peacefully in his ancestral summer home in St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, after only a few weeks of illness," according…
E. Brooke Lee Jr. ’40
The class' 50th-reunion P-rade in 1990 was energized by the presence of Beezie and his new family: his second, wife, Debbie, and their children, Sammy…
Hugh Leroy Latham ’40
Hugh, our self-described "quiet rolling stone" died July 10, 2004, in Still River, Mass., the location of his beloved Saint Benedict Priory. He prepared at…
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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