Berrocal's close Princeton classmate, Bill Ford, found out that he was seriously ill with a rare disease, thymic cancer.

"He was a kind of prodigy," recalls Galway Kinnell, a Princeton classmate, "writing poetry that was so incredibly resonant."

Hess was part of a trio of noted attackmen who were Princeton classmates along with Jesse Hubbard and Chris Massey.

Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields.

He was following a tip from a former Princeton classmate, a Welshman who had been working in the London financial district since graduate school.

The bride and bridegroom met in 1997, when a Princeton classmate introduced them in Palo Alto just weeks before their 10th reunion.

Through his Princeton classmates, he was hired by Wall Street insurance firm Johnson & Higgins upon his return to the United States.

A final Kagan-related e-mail, from Tim Collier, a Princeton '81 classmate of hers:

"He was such an extraordinary guy, you couldn't quite exclude the possibility," said another Princeton classmate, Howard Fredman, who is now a Los Angeles lawyer.

As Princeton classmates assembled in 1991 at their 25th reunion, he regaled them with accounts of his gulf war exploits.