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William Edgar Porter Jr. ’36

AT 80, BILL DIED of cancer Sept. 26, 1993, at Longwood at Oakmont, a retirement community in Verona, Penn., to which he moved in the…

Addison Gorgas Brenizer Jr. ’36

ADDISON DIED Sept. 1, 1993, in Charlotte, N.C. He prepared at McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn. After two years at Davidson College, he transferred to…

J. Merrill Knapp ’36

OUR HONORARY CLASSMATE Merrill died of cancer Mar. 7, 1993, at the Princeton Medical Center. He graduated from Yale in 1936. He was born in…

J. Tufton Mason Jr. ’36

AT 78, "TUFFY" DIED Sept. 20, 1993. After graduating from Montclair (N.J.) Academy, he majored in biology and was a member of Key and Seal…

Robert Sewell Mather ’36

BOB DIED suddenly of a heart attack in his Kenilworth, Ill., home, June 17, 1993. After graduating from Hyde Park H.S. in Chicago, he majored…

Richard H. Bruning ’36

THE CLASS REGRETS the death of Dr. Richard H. Bruning on May 8, 1993, in Millburn, N.J. A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Dick prepared…

Robert Edward Adams ’36

BOB DIED MAY 8, 1993, in Sudbury, Mass., many years after suffering a severe stroke. He graduated from Central H.S. in Scranton, Penn. At Princeton…

John Rogers Lanahan ’36

AT 79, JACK DIED Apr. 6, 1993, of a stroke in La Mesa, Calif. He attended Trenton H.S. At Princeton, he majored in politics and…

Eugene Burke Oconnor ’36

GENE DIED Sept. 1, 1992, in Buffalo, N.Y. At Princeton, he majored in philosophy, played polo, sang in the university choir, and was a member…

William Arthur Carlile ’36

BILL, LONGTIME resident of Columbus, Ohio, died Mar. 1, 1993, after a long illness. He prepared at Columbus Academy and the Hun School. At Princeton…

Edward Horace Decker ’36

ED, AT THE age of 80, died Apr. 22, 1993, in Ridgewood, N.J., where he had lived since 1918. He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy…

Allison Ripley Maxwell Jr. ’36

ALLY DIED in Ligonier, Penn., Nov. 28, 1992, after a long illness. He prepared at Shady Side Academy. He started in 1925 with Pittsburgh Steel…

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