MEMORIALS
Willhun Frederick Hofmann Jr. ’39
BILL DIED at his home in Belmont, Mass., on Oct. 4, 1991. Courageous and uncomplaining through a long illness, he at least had the satisfaction…
Harold Hawley Seymour ’39
HICKEY DIED Dec. 3, 1991, at his home in Montour Falls, N.Y. He had retired in 1977, but with no idea of leaving a countryside…
John Alan Wilson ’39
JACK DIED on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Dec. 2, 1991. He had moved to Sea Pines Plantation in 1981 and a year later retired as…
John Campbell Hurdman ’39
JACK DIED in his sleep at his home in Delray Beach, Fla., Aug. 15, 1991. He had had a serious operation in January but as…
Frederick Gordon Stager ’39
GORDON DIED June 4, 1991, at the hospital in Franklin, N.C. He had been totally paralyzed and blind since 1964 and bedridden for the past…
Charles Henry Detwiller Jr. ’39
DET DIED of a heart attack at his Cape Cod home on May 11, 1991. He had been living there in retirement since 1985, when…
Landis Gores ’39
LANDIS, ONE OF AMEIUCA'S leading architects, died March 18, 1991, at Norwalk Hospital near his home, the avant-garde house he designed and built in 1951…
Russell Lowell Mueller ’39
Russ suffered a stroke while at Anna Maria Island, Fla. last winter and died on March 19, 1991. Services were held a few days later…
Nathaniel Augustus Boynton ’39
AWARDWINNING JOURNALIST, author, publisher, minor league baseball fan and devoted Princetonian, Nat died Jan. 13, 1991, a few hours after being stricken by a sudden…
Charles Wills Vernon Jr. ’39
CHUCK DIED Jan. 30,1991, at his home in North Caldwell, NJ. Before retiring in 1983, he had been for 20 years V.P. of the export…
Samuel Clay Jr. ’39
AFTER A LONG ILLNESS Sam died Sept. 24, 1990, at his home in Paris, Ky., where he lived all his life. Upon graduation, he returned…
Joseph Benson Darlington ’39
JOE DIED Oct. 8,1990, in Venice, Fla., where he had been living in retirement for the past eight years. His home had been in Windsor…
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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