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Michael A. Marrese September 13, 1950-December 26, 2024
Michael A. Marrese, born September 13, 1950 in the Bronx, New York, passed peacefully in New York City on December 26, 2024. Michael was a devoted Catholic, well known in the fields of economics and finance, and loved by his many dear friends for his lifelong enthusiasm, support, and generosity. He was 74 years old. Michael came to Princeton from Denver, Colorado where he graduated from Mullen High School as salutatorian in 1968. He participated in Aquinas Institute and was a member of Wilson College. Michael majored in mathematics, and among his roommates were Joe Ciofalo ’73, Douglas Rohn and Dane Zabriskie.
Doug Rohn, Joe Ciofalo, Mike Marrese, and Dane Zabriskie.(photo: Dane Zabriskie) After graduation, Michael obtained a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He joined the Northwestern University Department of Economics in 1977 and taught there until 1992 when he left to work at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, participating in IMF-program negotiations in Russia, Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. During 1991-1997, he was the North American editor of the international journal Economic Systems. Michael joined JPMorgan in 1997 as Vice President of Global and Emerging Markets and served as Head of Economic Research and Sovereign Strategy for CEEMEA (Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa). Since 2001, he had been a Visiting Professor in Economics at Royal Holloway University of London and a Research Associate of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School. Michael was a devoted husband to Michelle Lamarche Marresen who preceded him in death in 2016. He is survived by his brother Thomas (Andrea), his sister Valerie (Marshall), uncle Dominic, nephew Chad Pearson, and nieces Chantal Woods, Alena Gernander, and Amanda Bunker. He is godfather to 17 children and will be missed by all who loved him deeply. A memorial service followed by Mass will be held at 12:45 pm on Saturday, January 11, 2025 at St. Monica's Church 413 E. 79th Street, New York. Details regarding a reception will be available at the service. For several decades, Michael Marrese generously donated to the charities listed below. In lieu of flowers, please consider supporting one of these organizations or another that is important to you: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Mullen High School in Denver, Misericordia Heart of Mercy (Chicago), The American Red Cross, Mercy Home for Boys and Girls (Chicago), Society for the Propagation of Faith.
------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J. “Andy” Packer March 23, 1950-December 22. 2024 We learned that Andy Packer, a spirited, enthusiastic participant in Princeton activities as an undergraduate and as an alumni, died peacefully at his home Sunday, December 22, 2024 surrounded by his family. A resident of Hartford, Connecticut, he was 74 years old. He was the beloved husband of Peggy Drew. Andy was born in in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the son of the late Meyer and Ada (Corliss) Packer. He graduated from Eastchester High School and enthusiastically embraced Princeton. He joined the Freshman Lightweight Crew and would continue rowing until graduation. In addition to rowing, Andy participated in Orange Key and the Karate Club. He was a member of Quadrangle Club. In his profile on our Class website, Andy recalled scoring 800 on the Chemistry Aptitude Test of the SAT and speculated that keyed his academic direction at Princeton. He majored in Chemistry and wrote his thesis on Ramon Spectroscopy and received the Senior Prize in chemistry. He graduated Summa cum laude and was a member of the Society of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa. After Princeton, he received a medical degree from Columbia University in 1976 and then completed an ophthalmology residency at Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard School of Medicine and a vitreoretinal fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was on the academic faculty at the University of Iowa, and then recruited to be on the faculty at LSU. He was the president of the American Society of Retina Specialists, president of the Connecticut Society of Eye Physicians, and a recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Life Achievement Award. After moving to Connecticut in 1988, he continued his career as a vitreoretinal surgeon in private practice at Consulting Ophthalmologists and Retina Consultants. Andrew was dedicated to his calling as a physician. He established genuinely caring and close relationships with his patients, and maintained concern for them into retirement. He was dedicated to his family, friends, and service to his community. His long-term membership to Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford included serving as a Board Member for many years and co-chair of the Social Justice Committee. He enjoyed outdoor activities such as biking, downhill and cross country skiing and sharing his activities with Peggy. His numerous pursuits led to completing the Pan-Mass Challenge bikeathon on several occasions. In 2009, Andy joined the Class climb of Mt. Princeton, where he was one of the first climbers to make the summit. He continued to be an enthusiastic participant in Class travels, attending multiple Civil War trips, to Yellowstone/Little Big Horn, Glacier National Park and the first Czech Republic trip. He also valued his connection to Princeton and the rowing community. Dave Bullock recalled a sophomore year highlight on the water: “As you might remember Andy was my partner in the pair all spring season of our sophomore year.. We were not great but at Derby that year we beat both Harvard and Yale and were the only victory for Princeton. I will always remember the smile on Andy’s face and to this day still have the Harvard shirt.. faded as it is that we got from them.”
Andy was a loving and devoted husband, father, brother, and uncle. He is survived by his wife, Peggy, two sons: Dr. Jonathan D. Packer and his wife, Dr. Eunsung Cho, and D. Jared Packer, his brother, Dr. Leslie Packer and his wife Dana, his sister, Laura Santarelli, five nieces and nephews, and many life-long friends. Andrew maintained a close friendship with his ex-wife, Kathi Packer. A funeral will be held on Friday in the sanctuary of Congregation Beth Israel, with Rabbi Andi Fliegel officiating, at 9:30am at 701 Farmington Ave., West Hartford, CT. Interment will follow at the Beth Israel Cemetery, 51 Jackson Street, Avon, CT. Following interment, the family will receive friends back at the synagogue for shiva and a meal of condolence. On Saturday, the family will be receiving friends at Andrew and Peggy’s home beginning at 2pm. For those observing the sabbath, shiva will resume after 5:15pm. Donations in Andrew’s memory may be made to CurePSP and to the Packer Family Endowment Fund at Congregation Beth Israel. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Alfred K. Glossbrenner March 24, 1950 - July 14, 2024
Alfred K. Glossbrenner, longtime resident of Yardley, Pennsylvania, and author of over sixty books, including one of the very first books aimed at teaching people how to go online with a personal computer, died on Sunday, July 14, 2024. He was 74. He was known to his classmates as Al. Alfred grew up in Canton, Ohio, the son of Alfred B. and Caroline K. Glossbrenner. He was a member of Christ Presbyterian Church and spent many weekends of his youth there, learning the values and teachings of the Old and New Testaments and developing a profound belief in God that would sustain him throughout his life. He attended public school in Canton and graduated in 1968 from Glenwood High School, where he was an honors student and honed his skills in debate and extemporaneous speaking. Summers during Alfred's childhood were spent at Culver Military Academy in Indiana, in the Woodcraft Camp, Summer Naval School, and as a counselor. At Culver he gained a deep appreciation for the beauty and complexity of nature. He also learned to sail and spent one especially memorable summer overseeing the crew of the O.W. Fowler - a 54-foot, wooden-hull, three-masted square rigger. Thus, was born his passion for books about the Age of Sail by Patrick O'Brian and others. After high school, Alfred joined the Class of 1972 at Princeton University. He majored in English, served on the debate team, and helped manage the marching band. He roomed with Gary Shapiro (D) and Lee Hoagland sophomore year; other roommates at Princeton were Dan Ferguson, Larry Kurtz, John Lindquist, Anthony Radd, Gary Schiess, Tom Schrader, Phil Shinn and Ed Strauss. He was a member of Cottage Club. He was a member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society. Alfred was chosen Class Poet in his senior year and penned “To the Wind,“ one of three poems in our Nassau Herald that recounted the tempo of our class and our times at Princeton. He remained active in Class affairs, serving on the Class Executive Committee and as a Reunion Committee Member. In 2012, he was Chair of our Class Technology Committee and played a pivotal role in launching and maintaining our Class Website. A sharp-eyed editor, he provided a discerning review of the draft front essays of our 50th Reunion Book. Ever the visionary, Alfred wrote his senior thesis on modern fantasy and science fiction, five years before the release of "Star Wars." He graduated in 1972 and set his sights on New York City, where he hoped to become a science fiction writer. Discovering early on that that was going to be a hard way to make a living, he began writing sports books instead. The most notable of these was The Art of Hitting .300, written in 1980 with Charley Lau, famed hitting coach for the Yankees, to the delight of baseball fans around the globe. Not long after publication of the hitting book, Alfred's writing career took a major turn when he replaced his IBM Selectric typewriter with one of the first IBM PCs off the assembly line. Intrigued at the prospect of using this new device as a research tool for his writing projects - tapping into online services like The Source, CompuServe, computer bulletin boards, and the giant databases at the Library of Congress - he set about learning all he could about it and then sharing that knowledge. Soon recognized as one of the pioneers of the personal computer revolution, Alfred helped put the world online with his books and magazine articles, starting in 1983 with The Complete Handbook of Personal Computer Communications (St. Martin's Press). Dozens of other titles followed, all with the aim of introducing people to the wonders of personal computers in general and to the online world and the Internet in particular. He had an uncanny knack for taking a complex subject and making it understandable. It was a God-given gift, he would say, that if he could understand it, he could explain it to anyone. Alfred has been called "the Isaac Asimov of personal computing" and hailed as "The Great Communicator" by the New York Times. A marketing campaign by one of his publishers was illustrated with a cartoon showing two baffled and frustrated PC users with the caption, "Quick Alice, get me the GLOSSBRENNER!" As gratifying as all that was, Alfred's greatest joy was receiving fan mail from readers who said, "You've changed my life." In his years as Webmaster of this publication, he brought our Class of 1972 into the modern era and his contributions are greatly appreciated by by all of our readers. In addition to his writing talents, Alfred was a skilled conversationalist. He loved meeting new people, and whatever their age or occupation, he knew just what questions to ask to get them talking. At family gatherings with nieces and nephews on the Outer Banks and at his home in Bucks County, the moms and dads were often amazed at what Uncle Alfred could draw out of their sometimes shy and uncommunicative offspring. Alfred is survived by the love of his life, his wife and frequent co-author, Emily Schneck Glossbrenner. They met as college sophomores and were married in 1974 in the Princeton University Chapel. Alfred and Emily shared a passion for Bucks County, their 200-year-old farmhouse on the Delaware River, 18th-century American architecture and furniture, and Oriental rugs - the perfect manifestation of which is the Colonial Williamsburg-style guest house they built on their property and offer as a vacation rental. They would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in September. Alfred is also survived by his beloved brother, David F. Glossbrenner, of Bakersfield, California. And he leaves behind many treasured nieces, nephews, cousins, sisters- and brothers-in-law, and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Nancy Russell Glossbrenner. In keeping with Alfred's wishes, family and friends are gathering privately to remember him and celebrate his life. Donations may be made in his memory to Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve, 1635 River Road, New Hope, PA 18938. Arrangements are under the care of the Fitzgerald-Sommer Funeral Home, 17 S. Delaware Avenue, Yardley, PA 19067.
___________________________________________________________ Charles Thomas “Chuck” Hellmuth March 15, 2024
Chuck majored in Politics and was a member of Tiger Inn. Sophomore year he roomed with Peter Cole and Geoff Young, and was a resident of Blair Tower as an upper class man. Chuck’s passion was the Rugby Team and he became Captain his senior year. It was a singular level of commitment during this time because Princeton Rugby was a club sport that was not funded by the University. Team members bought their own uniforms; coached, and trained each other, and set the schedules with opponents. There were no athletic trainers to serve the team; the players brought any necessary bandages and wraps to both practice and games. Upon graduation, Chuck took a year off and traveled around the world with his friend and teammate Andy Brown and Ben Durfee, taking on jobs in Australia fighting forest fires, working on the docks in New Zealand, and living and working on a kibbutz in Israel. The trip included a two-month hike through the mountains of Nepal without a guide. After the world tour, Chuck continued his education and earned a master’s degree from the Harvard Business School. At Harvard, Chuck played Rugby and was again named Captain of the team. He wrote in the 50th Reunion Book that his post graduate travel “led me to pursue some international experiences with Citibank after Harvard Business School.” Chuck was an executive with Citibank stationed in Beirut, Greece, Morocco and Doha. Afterward, he returned to the states and joined his father in the family business at C. T. Hellmuth and Associates, an employment benefit services firm. Chuck is survived by his wife Mary Catherine, sons, Chad Hodge, Todd Hellmuth and Tommy Hellmuth and daughter, Catie Nieto, and three grandchildren. ______________________________________ Peter William Jovanovich February 4, 1949-July 15, 2024
Peter Jovanovich, whose family name and personal career exerted a profound influence on American educational and academic publishing, died July 15 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He was 75. Peter was born in Queens, New York, the son of and William and Martha Davis Jovanovich. He grew up in Briarcliff Manor, New York, and entered Princeton with the Class of 1971. Sophomore year, Peter selected Wilson College where he lived for the remainder of his undergraduate years. A Wilson College classmate recalls Peter as “a larger than life presence at Wilson College … a tall, self assured and fun loving individual.” Another recalled him as “quiet, straightforward and attentive fellow, really nice and unassuming.” He worked on the college magazine, and help produce and acted in the plays of James Magnuson, Princeton’s Hodder Fellow. After a semester of majoring at the Woodrow Wilson School, Peter became an English major. He wrote his junior paper on Frank Norris, and his senior thesis on Three Writers of the Great Plains.” After graduating summa cum laude, Peter joined Macmillan Publishing, beginning a career arc similar to his father, who rose from textbook salesman for Harcourt Brace and Co., eventually building it into a publishing powerhouse. (In 1972, the name of the company was changed to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ)). At Macmillan, Peter quickly rose from textbook salesman to vice president of the general books division. He went on to become director of the trade department at HBJ, then executive vice president. In 1988, after a brutal, hostile takeover attempt by Sir Robert Maxwell, the board of directors chose Peter as president and CEO over his father to run the international corporation. While once described by The New York Times as "a hatchet man," Peter saved thousands of jobs at HBJ through selling off corporate assets and divisions, including Sea World. In 1992, he was asked to run Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, a school publishing company. He went on to become president of McGraw-Hill's educational and professional publishing group. During his tenure, McGraw-Hill became the largest educational publisher in the world. Seven years later, he joined Pearson, another esteemed publisher, where he oversaw the creation of Pearson Education, which eventually surpassed McGraw-Hill to become the world's largest educational publisher, with 20,000 employees. In 2007, he was elected to the Educational Publishers Hall of Fame.For the last four decades, he served on the board of the Alfred Harcourt Foundation, which provides college scholarships to students of need in the New York Metropolitan area. In 2003, Mr. Jovanovich was diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans. He was moved up to "No. 1" on the lung transplant list at Columbia Presbyterian just before the start of the new year and was eternally grateful to receive a double-lung transplant in March 2004. He retired the following year. "Peter was brave throughout the many medical crises he went through starting in 2001, and never gave up the fight to live on," said his wife, Robin Thrush Jovanovich. "His doctors admired his perseverance, wit, and 'model patient' behavior." Peter met his future wife, Robin Thrush, on a blind date 50 years ago. He was devoted to her and the family who lived in many different parts of the country during his career. They settled in Rye, N.Y. in 1992 with their sons, Nick and Will, who are now, respectively, a real estate agent with Douglas Elliman in Miami Beach, and a financial advisor at UBS Financial Services in Manhattan. In retirement, he consulted with several educational companies in the United States and Asia. Peter was active in community. He was elected to the Rye City Council and became Deputy Mayor. He also served on the board of the Rye Nature Center.
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