Hunter Nicholas was born Sept. 12, 1953, and grew up in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. He attended both Milton Academy and the Palfrey Street School in Massachusetts, where he developed a love of science and an aspiration to be a physician.
At Princeton, Hunter majored in psychology and graduated cum laude. He was good friends with Neil Powe and Herman Taylor, and they shared many premedical courses. Neil recalled Hunter’s love of music and the O’Jays: “He would play their Ship Ahoy album over and over again on his eight-track tape player.” Hunter was a member of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
In his senior yearbook, he wrote, “May the knowledge thus far forwarded and tallied provide for the understanding which should henceforth serve to transcend this near perfectly symmetric interpretation of reality.”
Hunter earned a medical degree from Boston University in 1981. He moved to Washington, D.C., where he completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Washington General Hospital. He moved to Bismarck, N.D., and practiced medicine there for some years. His brother, Huntley, reported to Princeton in 2011 that Hunter had died in Bismarck May 19, 2008.
The class officers extend deepest sympathy to Huntley and to Hunter’s sister, Anne Marie Jennings.