MEMORIALS
Arthur W. Schmidt Sr. ’39
ART DIED Feb. 23, 1994, in Williamsburg, Va. where he had retired in 1981. His last four years had been hard as he went through…
Paul V. Deporte ’39
PAUL DIED Dec. 31, 1993, of a sepsis while recovering from GuillainBarre Syndrome at a rehabilitation hospital. He had retired in 1983 after 37 years…
Eugene C. Morrison ’39
GENE DIED Sept. 1, 1992, in Luxembourg. The last time we saw him was at a class luncheon at the Princeton Club of N.Y.C. in…
James Sowerbutt Vandermade ’39
James Sowerbutt Vandermade ’39 Jim died July 20, 2006, in Gladwyne, Pa., where he and his wife, Peg, had lived since moving to the Waverly…
Lambert Lyons-montgomery ’39
Buzz died July 18, 2006, at his home in Essex, Mass. In the first years after graduation, Buzz took his mathematical skills to a number…
Walter R. Hatfield ’39
Walt died Sept. 23, 2006, in Lexington, Mass., his home for 56 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, and found time to…
Edward Windsor Hobler ’39
Our class president senior year, Ed died of pneumonia July 23, 2006, in Evanston, Ill. Ed had been a resident of Evanston’s Presbyterian Home Alzheimer’s…
John Thimpson Kerr ’39
John died of congestive heart failure Aug. 25, 2006, at a retirement community in Towson, Md. Born in York, Pa., he came to us from…
Lawrence Adams Baker Jr. ’39
Larry died April 28, 2006, at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. Larry served in the Army during World War II. During his service, he…
James Myers Finch Jr. ’39
Jim died May 4, 2006, at Whitney Center in Hamden, Conn. A retired official of the New Haven Railroad, Jim was a railroad buff all…
Robert Haskins ’39 *40
Bob died April 17, 2006. A native of Richmond, he received bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Princeton and went on to earn a…
David Gulick Nes ’39
Dave died of cancer May 27, 2006, at his Owings Mills, Md., home. Dave had a spectacular career as a State Department officer. But first…
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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