MEMORIALS
Robert M. Minton ’40
Bob Minton graduated from Morristown [N.J.] H.S. in 1935, was accepted at Princeton, but since this was during the Depression, worked for a year as…
Joseph M. Spencer ’40
Joseph Spencer, of Lake Wylie, South Carolina, died Nov. 3, 2000, at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, N.C. He was 86. He came from a Princeton…
Langdon H. Wesley ’40
"Wes" Wesley died Mar. 21, 2001, of cardiac arrest. He had attended our 60th reunion last year. He was a real '40 trooper, attending most…
Paul Raymond Teetor ’40
Paul died Aug. 21, 2000. Coming from Vermont, Paul's school was Troy Conference Academy. With his bachelor's as an economics major, he entered Columbia law…
Carl Beier ’40
Carl died on Jan. 24, 2000, five days before his 80th birthday. He came to Princeton at age 16 and was one of the first…
Edward Bernard Cornelius ’40 *41
Retired chemical engineer Ed Cornelius died on Sept. 13, 1999, after living in Sarasota, Fla., for the past 10 years. His interest in research on…
Ridgely Prentiss Melvin Jr. ’40
Maryland special appeals judge and ocean mariner extraordinaire, Ridgely Melvin died at his Annapolis residence on Oct. 11, 1999. Ridge was born and lived almost…
Henry B. Chalmers ’40
Hank, a longtime resident of New Orleans, died Jan. 11, 2007. He prepared at Pawling School and was preceded at Princeton by his relatives T.P…
Cornelius F. Froeb ’40
Neil died at his home in Annapolis Jan. 9, 2007, of congestive heart failure after a monthlong illness. He graduated from Choate School, following his…
Joseph A. Gilleaudeau ’40
Joe, husband of the late Louise Shanahan Gilleaudeau, died Jan. 4, 2007, in Doylestown, Pa. He was a graduate of St. George’s School of Newport…
George A. Haas ’40
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution headline, “Survivor of polio, ‘gentleman’,” announced George’s death Jan. 2, 2007. George, whom some of us knew as “Mule,” had established his…
Carter Harman ’40 *42
"Composer, Music Critic, and Record Producer Dies" was The New York Times headline that noted Carter's death Jan. 23, 2007, in Stowe, Vt. He prepared…
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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