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Deaths posted within the last 6 months (click here and scroll down for obits): John MacMurray. Ron Goldman. Dick Niner. Jeff Morgan. Joe Prather. David Fisher. Alan Oestreich. Tal Mack. Harlan Spitz. Bob Craft.VJ Menna.
Deaths reported but awaiting details: none.
CLASS DUES
We are now in fiscal year '23-'24 and again the goal is 61%. Please pay your dues and help us reach our goal. As of 1/27/24, 191 classmates/associates, or 42%, have paid their dues.
For the previous fiscal year ('22-'23), 209 classmates and associates (46%) paid dues.
Please log in and click here to see your personal payments history, pay your dues, and optionally donate to the scholarship fund and Foundation. (Note: login is optional; but if you do, you can see your payments history and the system will auto-fill your information for you.) Dues payments and donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.
Virtual Yearbook
In the on-line "Virtual Yearbook" you can read about classmates, look at their photos (many were not in the print edition and most are in color). You can edit your profile, your essay, and add/delete photos as you see fit. While logged on, click this link and use the navigation buttons on the top and right.
Directory Link (on left, second from bottom while logged on)
It has three selections: Classmates (you can look up details on anyone) My Profile (update your own details), Deceased (lists all those we've lost, including links to their memorials).
UPCOMING EVENTS
Celebration of Joe Prather’s life: 11:00 a.m., May 10. 2024 at the Calvary Episcopal Church in Summit, New Jersey, followed by a luncheon at The Beacon Hill Club, also in Summit. His widow Ev invites all classmates and spouses to attend. She says that Reunions or other orange and black attire is not only welcome, but preferred.
Our 63rd reunion will take place on campus May 23-26. This is an off-year reunion for us, and we will be satellite to the class of 1959’s 65th reunion, whose headquarters will be at Forbes College. We will hold our annual class dinner at the Nassau Club, as we have in recent years, on Friday, May 24.
RECENT EVENTS
.Alumni Day, Saturday, February 24, 2024. Class reception at Cannon Club immediately following the 3p.m. Service of Remembrance in the chapel. Click here for the Alumni Day details and for the University's registration page.
Memorial Celebration of Life for Cookie Krongard: September 30 (date of the alumni lacrosse game) at Baker Rink.
September 3, 2023, 4:00 PM - Pre-rade welcomes the Class of 2027 The Class of 2027 will participate in its Pre-rade in front of Nassau Hall..Alumni and guests are invited to attend. Class jackets or orange and black attire are encouraged. Learn more about the Pre-rade
62nd Reunion: May 26-28, 2023. Class Dinner Friday night at Nassau Club. '62 will join us. Class meeting at 5:30pm, cocktail hour 6pm, dinner approx 7pm.
Who was there: Tony Atkiss, Len Berton, Jim & Susan Blair, Lee Blyler & daughter Allison '88, Ellen Boer, George Brakeley, Jerry Ford '54 h61, Jon & Patty Hlafter, Mike & Gerri Horn, Justin & Suzanne Kimball, Joe & Maureen McGinity, Peter & Jean Pettibone, Bob & Mary Pickens, Art Smith, Will Somers, Jim & Martha Wickenden, Carol Wojciechowicz.
Committee: Gene Lawson, Bob Fuller, Art Smith, Ev & Joe Prather, Peter & Ellen Boer, Gil Omenn, Len Berton, George Brakeley and Peter Pettibone. Click here for the details.
February 19, 2022: Alumni Day
Virtual 60th Reunion. May 20 - 23, 2021. Click here to go to Schedule page.
Who's "coming"
J. Adams
Emmerson
Iseman
Newens
Stith
Adelman
Epsen
Jackson
Oestreich
Strasberger
Alexander
B.Ewing
P.Johnson's widow & daughter
Patrick
Supplee
Andrews
Falk
R.Johnson
Patton
Sykes
D.Armstrong
Fechner
Kestler
Pettibone
Tilton
Atkiss
W.Finch
Kimball
Pickens
Tobriner
Babcock
Finks
Krongard
Poole
D.Todd
Berton
Fitzgerald
Kuchel
Prather
J.Todd
Betts
Forney
Lackey
Pritchard
Tomlinson
Bjorkholm
Frisbie
Lancefield
Quilty
Towler
Blair
Georgescu
Lane
Ramsay
Tremaine
Blyler
Golden
Larkin
Randall
Uman
Boer
Goldman
G.Lewis
Rea
Unger
Bole
Goodenough
Leifer
Reeder
Vanderwicken
Brakeley
Gordon
Leisring
Rentschler
von Rohr
Brandon
Gotten
Lomas
Reusch
Wadsworth
Brothers
Graber
Lucchesi
Rhoades
Wagner
Bruner
Graham
Mack
Rippin
Walker
N.Brown
Green
Mandell
P.Roberts
Wall
J.Burnham
Greenberg
Manning
W.B.Rose
C.Watson
Burton
Greer
Matthews
Rosenberg
R.Webster
P.Chapman
Hagstrom
McCobb
Rough
Weisband
Cheeseman
Hammond
McGinity
Rukeyser
Wells
J.Clark
Hanson
McIndoe
Sansone
Whitaker
Cole
R.Harrison
McLaughlin
Scasserra
B.White
Cooper
Havens
McMichael
Schwartz
M.Whitehead
Crawford
Hegner
McReynolds
Seely
Whitman
Dana
Hedgren
McWhinnie
Selwood
Wickenden
Davidson
Hilgendorff
Menna
Shattuck
Joan.Wilk
J.Diaz
Hlafter
Messina
Shipman
Williamson
Diener
Horn
Miles
A.Smith
Wisner
Donnelly
Horner
Millsaps
W.Smith
Carol.Wojcie
Dufford
Hudnut
W.Morris
Somers
Wollmershauser
Earle
Huey
J.Mygatt
Sonnenberg
Zirin
Edmunds
Hyland
T.Mygatt
Stiles
Zschau
Edwards
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classmates/associates
A Woodrow Wilson virtual panel discussion was held on September 8, 2020 on Zoom. To view the meeting "tape", click this link https://youtu.be/Ne4n4tXRg2c. Please do not share this link with anyone outside our class.
Saturday February 22, 2020- Alumni Day. Click here to go to the University web page.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 1pm: Caring Committee conference call on "Loneliness". Click here for article on the subject. Chair: Bob Pickens
Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 3pm: Class Gathering at Yankee Stadium for Dartmouth football game.
Our Class News page contains short items which appear from newest to oldest. Some items appear on the Class Acts if they are longer. We welcome your submissions but suggest you read our Guidelines. You can see the roster of Class Officers (including their smiling faces). Also, please go to the President's Page, and the Treasurer's Page. Viewing and updating personal data requires classmates to login with their own i.d. and password.
If you are a member or widow of the class, this is your site. This medium serves as a valuable resource for news of the class. Please tell other classmates! Whether you have news about yourself or others, want to post a notice of a class event, or have other information of interest, please send it here. Items will also be passed on to our class secretary, George Brakeley, for possible use in PAW.
On this site: You may click on links, which are in orange and underlined, to be transported to the page described (and you can use the "Back" button of your web browser to return), or to send e-mail to the person identified. You may also click on the links at the left of all pages. Clicking on a "thumbnail" picture with an orange border will display a larger and clearer image.
Click here for earlier past events. Click here for the class song.
DISCLAIMER: This page was created by and for the Class of 1961. Information on this page is intended for individual communication of a personal nature among Princetonians. Use of this information for any other purpose is strictly prohibited. The Class of 1961 is solely responsible for the content on this page. Although we make every effort to keep this information accurate, we cannot guarantee it.
