Service of Remembrance

Service of Remembrance, conducted annually by the Alumni Association, had its origins in a memorial service for Princeton war dead first held in Nassau Hall on Baccalaureate Sunday of 1919. The service was broadened in 1943 to include remembrance of all alumni who had died during the preceding year and was held thereafter in the University Chapel. In 1970 the time was changed to the mid-winter Alumni Day.

The service is conducted by three or four alumni ministers and concludes with a procession of class representatives, bearing floral tributes in memory of their classmates who have died in the preceding year.

From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).