MEMORIALS
Ralph D. Osborne Jr. ’35
RALPH WILL be keenly and widely missed. Foremost among his many Princeton friends were his five roommates, but they also included his Cottage Club colleagues…
Kenneth Chadbourne Hewitt ’35
KEN HEWITT, who was born in Pittsburgh, died in his sleep, at the age of 80, Dec. 17, 1992, at Longwood Retirement Community in Oakmont…
John Baker Schaner ’35
JOHN SCHANER died Nov. 27, 1992, at Hershey Medical Center, Penn. He was 79 and had been ill for a number of years. His primary…
Richard Elwood Harris ’35
RICHARD HARRIS, of Hope, N.J., died Nov. 19, 1992, at a nursing home in Frelinghuysen. He was 80 and had retired in 1977 as a…
Sanford F. Ketcham ’35
SANFORD F. KETCHAM died Oct. 20, 1992, of emphysema and colon cancer, both diagnosed when he was admitted to the hospital three weeks earlier for…
Charles Campbell Koehn ’35
CAMPBELL. KOEHN died May 15, 1992, in Dunedin, Fla., where he had been residing since the 1960s. He prepared for Princeton at Hoosac and the…
John Lewis Smith Jr. ’35
JOHN LEWIS SMITH JR., age 79, a retired chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and former chief judge of…
Hugh Joseph Davis ’35 *36
HUGH DAVIS died of cancer in Highline Community Hospital, Seattle, on May 14, 1992. Most of his 40year career as an engineer was with the…
Harold Calhoun Smith Jr. ’35
"SMITTY," "H.C.," OR "CALHOUN," as he was variously known to classmates, died Sept. 28, 1992, after a six-month bout with cancer. Smitty's death has deprived…
Thomas Alexander Cooper ’35
TOM COOPER died June 3, 1990, at the Stanford Univ. hospital in Palo Alto, where he had been treated for cancer. He is Survived by…
Purnell Handy Benson ’35
PURNELL BENSON died Apr, 27, 1992. Born in Highland Park, Ill., he graduated from Bronxville (N.Y.) H.S. At Princeton he explored physics but chose to…
James Oliver Boss ’35
JIM BOSS, who had lived in Bakersfield, Calif., for many years, died there July 9, 1992, after a long illness. Jim was born May 15…
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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