MEMORIALS
Charles Frederick Becker ’34
Charlie Becker, chief pathologist at Sisters Hospital in Buffalo for 30 years before he retired in 1977, and a professor of pathology at the U…
John Chester Botts Jr. ’34
Chet Botts, a resident of St. Petersburg, Fla., since 1973, died at Bayfront Medical Center on Mar. 26. A retired advertising executive with service at…
Victor Emanuel Costanzo ’34
Vic Costanzo, retired hospital administrator at Harrington Memorial Hospital in Southbridge, Mass., for 18 years and at A. R. Gould Memorial Hospital in Presque Isle…
John Benjamin Dorrance Jr. ’34
Johnnie Dorrance, a retired expert in passenger service with the old Pennsylvania Railroad and director of its high-speed Washington-Philadelphia-New York (Northeast Corridor) project in the…
Edward Reilly Ralston ’34
Pat Ralston, who retired in 1976 from DuPont Co. as a cost engineer after 35-plus years, died of heart failure at Crosslands retirement community in…
Malcolm Lloyd Wister ’34
Mike Wister, a descendant of "The Fabulous Wisters" of Grumblethorpe, their landmark ancestral home on Germantown Ave. in Philadelphia, which has stood since 1744, died…
Alexander Ginn ’34
Sandy Ginn, a tax lawyer who specialized in estate planning and administration until he retired in 1978, died at his home June 8, 1999. He…
Donald Campbell Hain ’34
Don Hain died Feb. 3, 2000, in Ft. Lauderdale. After earning his degree at Princeton, he worked in banking before earning an LLB at Columbia…
Thomas Parker Hamilton Jr. ’34
Tom Hamilton, a retired surgeon and, with his wife, the former Ruth Taft, an enthusiastic atttendee of class gatherings, died Feb. 8, 2000, following a…
George W. Warch ’34
George Warch died Aug. 1, 1999. He was 87 and had been living in a nursing home where his daughter, Mrs. Linda Fenton, had moved…
John Merrithew Allen ’34
Jack Allen, a prominent resident of Searsport, Maine, for some 20 years after his retirement, died in his sleep May 19, 1999, after a long…
Howard Gilbert Engler ’34
Howie Engler, founder of the Engler Instrument Co. in Jersey City, died May 13, 1999, in Ticonderoga, N.Y., near his summer home in Hague, on…
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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