Alonzo Church '24 *27
Alonzo Church, a philosopher and mathematician, died Aug. 11, 1995. He was 92. He attended Ridgefield School in Connecticut, where he helped edit the school magazine. At Princeton he won the Class of 1861 Prize during his sophomore year, became Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of Whig Hall.
Alonzo earned his PhD in mathematics and after post doc work at Harvard and in Europe joined Princeton's faculty in 1929. He left in 1967, when he joined UCLA's philosophy department.
He raised the prestige of mathematical logic through his involvement with the Journal of Symbolic Logic. In 1936, Church became the Journal's first editor, a position he held until 1979.
He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 1967, to the Natl. Academy of Sciences in 1978, and to the British Academy in 1980. Alonzo received honorary degrees from Case-Western Reserve U. in 1969, Princeton in 1985, and SUNY-Buffalo in 1990. Among his contributions to logic, mathematics, and computer science are the Church Lambda Operator, Church's Thesis, and Church's Theorem.
Alonzo is survived by a son and two daughters, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. His wife, Mary Julia Kuczinski, died in 1976.
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Olney Martin Raymond '24
Olney was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 18, 1902, to John William Raymond (who was connected with the Central Leather Co. in NYC) and Hannah Valentine. He died in 1994. Ollie attended Brooklyn Friends School and the George School.
At Princeton he was a member of the Nassau Lit Board, Phi Beta Kappa, and Whig Hall. He received his LLB from Harvard Law School in 1927. He was associated with Bleecker and Tuckerman (1928-30), and with the Long Island Lighting Co. from 1931-40.
Ollie married Judith Guadagni of Brooklyn, N.Y.. in 1938. His nephew Will Raymond remembers him as a "family man" for most of his life. He raised four children, lived in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, and practiced law independently. He was also a dedicated ornithologist and spent much time pursuing this activity at his summer home on Long Island. He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Knickerbocker Field Club (Brooklyn).
He is survived by four children, Bruce, Judy, Marianna, and Sarah. He had three brothers, including two who attended Princeton, Valentine K. '19 and Richard V. '21. (He was not related to Ridenour Raymond '24, of Kansas City, Mo.).
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John W. Grange '27
John W. Grange died Dec. 3, 1996.
Jack came to us from St. Paul's School and was a member of the varsity hockey and golf teams and of Colonial Club. He was golf champion of the Springdale Golf Club in 1927. Upon graduation, he spent the rest of his active business life as a real estate broker on Philadelphia's Main Line. He retired many years ago and lived in poor health at Waverley Retirement Center in Gladwyne, Pa.
Jack married Shirley Putnam in 1943; she predeceased him by a few months. He is survived by his daughter, Shirley, and a stepdaughter, Eleanor York.
To them, the class extends deep sympathy in its loss of a handsome and popular classmate.
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Philip Glenn Thompson '27
Philip Glenn Thompson died Nov. 17, 1996, at the Bethany Lutheran Village in Centerville, Ohio. Glenn came to Princeton from Ripley H.S. in Ripley, Tenn. He was on the varsity wrestling squad and a member of Whig Hall and Cannon Club.
After graduation, he became a reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer. He worked there for 36 years, ending up as the paper's executive editor. In 1959 he became editor of the Dayton, Ohio, Journal Herald. He retired in 1969.
In 1943 he enlisted as a private in the Army Infantry and came out a captain in 1946 after serving in the European theater.
After WWII, Glenn lived in Dayton, Ohio, and became a civic leader. He served as the first president of the Ohio Environmental Council and president of the DaytonMontgomery County Historical Society.
He married Margaret Lee, a Sweetbriar graduate, in 1932. They had no children. To her, the class extends its deep sympathy.
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James McCormick II '30
James McCormick II, of Dewitville, N.Y., died Aug. 1, 1996, in Westfield MemoriaI Hospital.
He was born July 27, 1908, in Ellicottville, N.Y., a son of James and Georgia Mudgett McCormick.
McCormick was a graduate of Easton H.S. and Phillips Exeter. He had been employed as an over
water construction engineer with Creole Petroleum Corp. in Maracaibo, Venezuela, for 23 years, and was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, in Mayville, N.Y.
Surviving are his wife, Mildred Knauff McCormick, whom he married in 1942 in Charleston S.C.; three sons, James M. III, Thomas, and Patrick; a grandson, James M. IV; four granddaughters, Theodora Titus, Sara Scott, Mary Courtney, and Riley; and a sister, Margerie Krell.
The class extends its deepest sympathy to the family.
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Thomas Neil Meredith M.D. '34
Tom Meredith, a retired general surgeon who had lived at Hilton Head, S.C., since 1974, died there Nov. 17, 1996. He enjoyed retirement, he wrote, "boating, beaching, golf, and, last but not least, activity in and for the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 10-11," of which, in 1982, he was elected commander.
Tom received his MD in 1938 from the U. of Pennsylvania's medical school. He interned at Pittsburgh's St. Francis Hospital and served his residency (193941) at Children's Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital, both in Pittsburgh. Called by the Army to active duty in 1941, he served for three years with the 27th General Hospital in Australia and New Guinea. He returned to private practice in Pittsburgh in 1946 and retired in 1971.
Tom was married in 1940 to "a wonderful woman," Helen Campe, a 1937 graduate of CarnegieMellon, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Geoffrey E. '65 and Dr. Thomas S., and two grandchildren, Christopher and Leigh. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.
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Hans Otto Schundler '35
Otto Schundler died Nov. 28, 1996, of heart problems. He was 83. He and Gertrud, his wife of 54 years, had recently moved from Westfield to Fellowship Village, a retirement community in Liberty Corner, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Otto attended Newark Academy and majored in economics at Princeton. He was active in 150lb. and scrub football (the "omelets"), the BricaBrac, and the Nassau Herald. Otto was proud to have been elected to Tiger Inn as an alumnus. Paul Fitting was his roommate.
Otto served in the Army Air Corps during the war, and worked briefly with Morgan Stanley afterwards. Then he formed what became a very successful family business of processing and distributing the mineral derivatives vermiculite and perlite.
Survivors, in addition to Gertrud, include seven sons: twins Russell '65 and Peter '65, Jeffrey, Bruce '70, Michael, Kim, and Bret; daughter Kristin, and 21 grandchildren. Bret is the mayor of Jersey City. Otto's sister Elsa is married to Henry Patton '35. The class mourns the passing of a successful business man, influential citizen, and devoted family man. We send deepest sympathy to the family.
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Samuel Stuart Gilbert '37
International banker Sam Gilbert, always with an eye out for Princeton and golfing, died Nov. 3, 1996, at his home in Pinehurst, N.C., after a long battle with cancer. In 1940 in Shanghai he married Mary Dare, who died in 1991. He is survived by his daughters, Susan Tileston and Joan Longley, and six grandchildren, most of whom are following in their grandfather's footsteps in international affairs.
Sam prepared at Lawrenceville, where he was cum laude. At Princeton he majored in politics, attending the Woodrow Wilson School and graduating with honors. He was a member of Elm Club.
Sam first worked for Natl. City Bank of NYC in Japan and China which led to a position with the Foreign Funds Control Division of the Treasury Dept. in Washington and then the Commerce Dept., War Surplus Export Disposal. In 1946 he began with the First Natl. Bank of Boston as a consultant in foreign banking; he worked in Argentina from 194753.
He then worked in Havana, Cuba, as submanager from 195360, in Buenos Aires from 196169, and in Tokyo as general manager until he retired in 1978. Since then he consulted for the Intl. Executive Corps., with banking assignments in Guatemala and Portugal. One of his final efforts was giving a series of talks to upper classes at the O'Neal School in Pinehurst, N.C.
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Edward N. Odell '37
Ed Odell died Aug. 24, 1996, after a brief illness. Survivors include Mary, his wife of 52 years, daughters Barbara, Deborah, and Kathleen, son Lawrence, and a grandchild.
Ed prepared at Montclair [N.J.] H.S. and West Nottingham Academy. At Princeton he majored in economics and English, was on the championship class baseball team two years and ran various agencies.
Before beginning his armed services career, he was treasurer of Polytechnic Institute of Puerto Rico and accountant for Sharpe & Dohme in Philadelphia. In the Air Force he rose to lt. colonel and received the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, Bronze Star with one oak leaf cluster, Croix de Guerre with Palm, and a Presidential Group Citation. He did antisubmarine work in the Atlantic and flew combat missions over Europe during WWII and the Korean War; he was group lead navigator in the Liberator "Silly Filly" of the 490th Bomb Group. He was v.p. of Intercontinental Enterprises, Flamingo Airlines Air Cargo (194647) before being recalled to the Air Force doing procurement and audit in the Office of the Inspector General.
He retired from the Air Force in 1962 and became director of materie with Martin Marietta and later was assistant secretary of Transportation. From 197081 he worked for the Small Business Administration, for which he received the Distinguished Service Award. He retired in 1981.
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Robert Chapman Edwards '41
Bob Edwards died Oct. 12, 1996, in Sonoma, Calif., after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. As v.p. of research and development for the Cook Electric Co. he had been instrumental in supplying devices for the early NASA space launches.
Born in Chicago, Bob prepared at the Elgin Academy and Choate and was an honors graduate in economics. His sports were crew and sailing, and his club was Quadrangle. The Navy taught him meteorology and assigned him to the Aleutians, where this arcane science helped PBY Catalinas fly in weather so dismal that seagulls stayed grounded. After the war he got an engineering degree at Northwestern, and his creative career was launched. Bob and his wife, Elizabeth Rinehimer, kept homes in Kenilworth and San Francisco.
Other survivors include daughters Kathryn Johnston, Mary, and Virginia, three grandchildren, and a brother, Alfred '37. To all of them, and to Betty, we extend our deep sympathy.
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John Vaclav Broz '42
John died Oct. 11, 1996, in Beaufort, S.C., after a long struggle with cancer of the esophagus. He retired in 1991 after a business career in export sales management.
John was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and was educated in his native country and in England before joining the class at the beginning of sophomore year. He graduated from the SPIA with high honors and was a member of Tower Club. He served in the OSS during WWII in Washington, D.C.
After the war he became involved in export sales, initially in NYC, before joining Monsanto in St. Louis, where he became manager of Far Eastern sales. He then moved back to NYC with the Foreign Trade Service Export & Publishing Co. as assistant manager. This was followed by a move to Cincinnati as v.p. of Industry Export Service Inc. Never comfortable with the corporate world, as he put it, he organized his own export sales company, John V. Broz Inc., moving it ultimately to Beaufort, S.C., where he was the longtime president and trustee of the Beaufort County Open Land Trust.
John was predeceased by his first and second wives, Margaret Stringfellow and Elizabeth G. Phillips. To his widow, Marguerite, to his daughter, Peggy, and to his grandchildren the class offers its warmest sympathies.
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Alfred Clifford Jones '42
Cliff died of cancer of the mouth Oct. 9, 1996, in his native St. Louis. He had enjoyed a long and distinguished career in state politics, serving as a member of the House of Representatives from 1950-58, and Republican Floor Leader in his final year. That was followed by 24 years as a state senator.
Cliff prepared for Princeton at St. Louis Country Day School, majored in psychology, and was a member of Cottage Club. After four years in the Navy, during the war, mostly aboard the USS Valencia as a lt. sergeant, he received an LLB from Washington U. Law School in 1948.
He joined the law firm Salkey & Jones, subsequently becoming secretary/treasurer of HewittLucas Body Co. and president of Aluminum Truck Bodies Inc., all in St. Louis. His pro-bono associations were many and varied, resulting in his being named Outstanding Man of the Year by the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce in 1952.
His political contributions were best summed up by the St. Louis PostDispatch in a feature story, headlined: "There Will Never Be Another Like Him," saying; "He had earned his colleagues' respect by being a careful crafter of the state's statutes, a constant companion of the budgeting process, an intellectual debater, someone who never misses a vote and always seems to vote his conscience."
To his children, Irene, Wesley, and Janet, the class extends its most sincere sympathies.
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Walter Douglas Roberts '43
Walter died in St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., July 24, 1996, following a long illness. He was 74.
A native of Macon, Ga., Walter received a call into the ministry at the age of 17. Following graduation from Princeton in 1943, he went to Virginia Theological Seminary, receiving his master of divinity degree in 1945. While at Princeton, Walter majored in philosophy, and was a member of Cloister Inn. During WWII, he served for some time as a civilian chaplain to the Army at Warner Robbins AFB, a B29 base.
Walter's ministry took him to churches in Gainesville, Ga; Summerville, Denmark; and Walterboro, S.C., before he arrived at St. John in the Wilderness, the oldest Episcopal church in western North Carolina, in 1961. For the next 25 years, until he retired in 1986, he was rector of St. John, located in Flat Rock, N.C. During that period, he was active in community affairs, serving as police chaplain and developing a health clinic for migrant workers.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret, and his children, Warren III, Douglas L., and Susan Bullard. To the entire family, we offer our most heartfelt condolences.
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Charles William Casgrain II '46
Charlie "Cazz" died June 22, 1996, at his home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.
Charlie came to Princeton from Portsmouth Priory School, R.I., and entered the School of Engineering. In the Army from July 1943 to Aug. 1945, he served with the 69th Infantry Division in the Rheinland as a PFC. Back again at Princeton in Nov. 1945, Charlie married Merrill Canfield. They lived in the "Veterans' Project" until his graduation as BSE in June 1948. He was a member of Cottage Club.
The family company, Mechanical Handling Systems Inc. in Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Mich., was his career through 1970. He then became an executive with Astro Tune-up Centers, a Midwest franchise chain. He retired in 1989. His wife died in 1974. Charlie through the years enjoyed golf, bowling, and baseball.
He is survived by his son, Charles W. III, and daughter, Merrill (Mrs. John H. Dudley), and four grandchildren. To them the class extends its deep sympathy on our loss of a loyal classmate.
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Peter Hendrickson '74
Peter Hendrickson died Jan. 21, 1996, of complications arising from AIDS. He was 44. He was an extraordinary friend to many, a psychologist of great humanity, a vigorous explorer of what life offered. He took his gifts and good fortune and returned much to the world through his patients' healing, through the effect of his living upon his friends and family. He is sorely missed.
He is survived by his mother, Betty, father John '44, brother Robert, and sisters Mary and Nancy '82, and briefly by his companion, Tim Allen.
Peter received his PhD from Boston College in 1982. From 1983-86 he served as director of psychological services at the Kennedy Child Study Center in NYC. He was a senior teacher at the New York Integral Yoga Institute. He wrote Alive & Well, A Path for Living in a Time of HIV (Irvington, 1990).
The Class of 1974