MEMORIALS
Earl Chester Wenger ’39
Earl died Feb. 26, 2004, in Savannah, Ga. He served with distinction as our class treasurer since 1997, first from his longtime home in South…
Arthur M. Eastburn ’39
Art died Feb. 8, 2007, at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. The cause was congestive heart failure, which had been with him for the…
Carl Martin Elkan ’39
Carl died May 6, 2007, at his home in Bartlesville, Okla., surrounded by family and caregivers. Carl graduated with a degree in chemical engineering and…
Francis Bailey Nimick Jr. ’39
Fran died June 11, 2007, after a long illness. A lifelong resident of the Pittsburgh area, he was prominently engaged in the banking business. After…
Edwin Pendleton Thompson ’39
Ed died April 30, 2006, at the Westerly (R.I.) Nursing Home. He served as a lieutenant junior grade with the U.S. Maritime Service in the…
Edgar Frederick Vom Lehm ’39
Ed died June 3, 2007, at a hospital near his home in Cullowhee, N.C., after a brief illness. Deeply devoted to music all his life…
Robert Maddock Backes ’39
Bob died at a hospital near his home in Sanibel, Fla., April 30, 2007. A native of Trenton, he became a partner there in the…
George Ernest Dale Jr. ’39
Ernie died at his home in Princeton on April 20, 2007, after a long struggle with pulmonary fibrosis. Following graduation, his business career began at…
Dawson Lycurgus Farber Jr. ’39
Lefty died peacefully in his sleep April 11, 2007, at his Brewster, Mass., home. In our senior year he pitched for Princeton against Columbia at…
William Wheeler Robinson ’39
Bill died in his sleep at Navesink Harbor, Red Bank, N.J., April 3, 2007. Editor of Yachting magazine and author of 27 sailing books and…
Wilbur Coe Stoll ’39
Bill died May 28, 2007, at Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly, N.J. He had lived most of his life in Plainfield, N.J., where he…
E. Burrell Lindsay ’39
Burrell died Dec. 19, 2003, in Cleveland Heights, where he lived since retirement. Except for Army service in the Pacific, where he was awarded a…
Memorial PAWcasts
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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