MEMORIALS
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…
Findley Burns Jr. ’39
Findley died Oct. 14, 2003, in Southern Pines, N.C., where he hadlived since retiring. Findley and his wife, Martha, whom he married in Vienna in…
George Henry Reppert Jr. ’39
George died Sept. 5, 2003, in Tulsa, Okla., his home since he retired as senior vice president of McGraw-Hill Publishing in 1971. George moved to…
Hugh Robinson ’39
After battling cancer for several years, Hugh died at home in Norfolk, Conn., Aug. 24, 2003. After Princeton he graduated from Harvard Law School in…
Eugene Beauharnais Sydnor Jr. ’39
Gene died Sept. 9, 2003, in Richmond, where he lived all his life except for four years in the Navy during WWII. He served as…
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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