MEMORIALS
Gilbert C. Norton ’39
Gil died May 17, 2005, in Sun City Center, Fla., after a long period of declining health. He had moved to Florida after his retirement…
Karl Dravo Pettit Jr. ’39
Karl died peacefully May 14, 2005, at the University Medical Center in Princeton following a short hospitalization for pneumonia and internal bleeding. His daughter, Helen…
Robert Waddington Grange ’39
Bob died May 27, 2005, in Paradise Valley, Ariz. After college, he was a Navy lieutenant senior grade in World War II, serving on a…
Stephen Hunter Ogilvy ’39
Steve died June 16, 2005, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident during his return to Westport, Conn., from Vermont, where he…
Ezra Parmalee Prentice Jr. ’39
Pete died April 16, 2005, in Charlotte, N.C. After graduation and a four-year stint in the Army during World War II, he earned a law…
James Lincoln Rowe ’39
Jim died June 1, 2005, in Indianapolis, where he had been a very active resident throughout his life. He majored in chemistry at Princeton, and…
William Dixon Boulton Stroud ’39
Gus died of pneumonia April 21, 2005, at home in West Grove, Pa. Widely known as a nature preserver, he and his wife, Joan, were…
Benjamin Coates ’39
Ben died Dec. 7, 2004, in Haverford, Pa. All his life he carried warm memories of his home in Philadelphia, saying that people who grew…
James Mott French ’39
Jim died at his home on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Jan. 31, 2005. He came to us from Hotchkiss and went on to the University…
Frank Rogers Donahue Jr. ’39
Frank, of Haverford, Pa., died Oct. 27, 2004, following a brief illness. Frank was born in Philadelphia and came to Princeton from Penn Charter. At…
Edward Toner Cone ’39
The salutatorian of our class and the first undergraduate to have an original musical composition accepted as a senior thesis, Ed died Oct. 23, 2004…
Roger Brouk Has Davis ’39
Rog died peacefully July 6, 2004, in Charlottesville, Va., where he had been living in retirement since 1983. His business career spanned 37 years. His…
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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