Hugh was a physician who was devoted to his practice as a country doctor and to his family. He died Sept. 2, 2010, in Hingham, Mass.
Hugh was a graduate of Deerfield Academy. At Princeton, where his father was in the Class of 1921, he was a varsity football manager, and a member of Triangle Club, Theatre Intime, and Cottage Club. He majored in psychology.
Though he planned to pursue medicine, after graduation he followed one of his first loves by working as chief electrician at several summer theaters for a year. He then earned a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1955, during which time he married Dorothea Kenderdine. Internship at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Hospital, a year on the Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian Reservation, public health service in Oklahoma, and a residency in general practice in Virginia followed.
In 1959, Hugh set up a family practice in rural Bucks County, Pa., to which he committed himself for 40 years. He was on staff at Doylestown Hospital, where he also served a term as medical director. In recent years, the Pershings lived in Massachusetts.
Our sympathy goes to Dorothea; daughters Jaye ’79, Pamela, and Abigail and their children; and Hugh’s sister, Pamela.
Undergraduate Class of 1950