MEMORIALS
William F. May ’48
Bill died Oct. 27, 2023, two days after his 96th birthday. He came to Princeton from Houston and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1948 with…
Dimitri M. Barton ’43
Dimitri died Nov. 11, 2022, at the San Francisco retirement home he shared with his wife, Marianne. He was 100 years old. Dimitri was born…
Garrett M. Deckel *98
Garrett died unexpectedly at her home in New York Oct. 8, 2023, at the age of 56. She was born in Louisville, Ky., April 1…
Eric R. Biel *85
Eric died Nov. 27, 2023, in Bethesda, Md. Born in Cleveland in 1959, Eric earned a B.A. from Johns Hopkins, and joint JD-MPA degrees from…
Amy K. Todres *81
Amy died in Princeton Nov. 15, 2023, at the age of 67. She was born in Neptune, N.J., Sept. 17, 1956. Amy earned a bachelor’s…
Jeffrey J. Farrington *75
Jeffrey died unexpectedly Nov. 16, 2023, in Pennington, N.J. He was born Nov. 29, 1951, in Troy, N.Y. He studied piano at the New England…
James Duncan Robertson *73
Duncan died Nov. 26, 2023, at his home in Augusta, Ga., after a long illness. Duncan was born March 14, 1944, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada…
Michael G. Strintzis *70
Michael died Nov. 23, 2019, in Athens, Greece. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1967, and…
Ray M. Clapp Jr. ’82
Ray died Dec. 24, 2021. He was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where both his parents were schoolteachers, and attended Alamo Heights High…
Mark A. Basham ’82
Mark died in the arms of his children on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, after a short illness. Mark came to Princeton from Santa Fe…
Martin Pensak ’78
We learned belatedly of Martin’s unexpected passing Oct. 13, 2022, at home in North Carolina. Martin grew up in Princeton, in a family comfortable with…
Maymay Quey Lin ’76
Maymay died Nov. 2, 2023, in New York after a long illness. A native New Yorker, she came to Princeton after graduating from Washington Irving…
Memorial PAWcasts
Remembering Hendrix Niemann ’73
‘A relationship with Drix, even in business, it was personal. You couldn’t be with him ... and not treat it as a friendship that you either wanted to develop or…
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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