James Greenbaum died March 13, 2014, at his home in Kittanning, Pa.
Jim prepared at Mercersburg Academy. At Princeton he pitched on the baseball team, majored in history, and joined Quadrangle Club. During junior and senior years, he roomed with Steve Royce, Walter Guzzardi, and Fred Schaettler. He also learned to fly in a civilian aviation program. This skill allowed him to enlist in the Army Air Corps as a pilot after the United States entered World War II.
Following discharge from the Air Corps, Jim changed the course of his life and entered Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1951. He then practiced general medicine in Kittanning for five years before enrolling in a pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. He returned to Kittanning and practiced pediatrics there from 1960 until 2009. Jim was an accomplished pediatrician, respected by his peers and loved by his many patients.
Jim’s wife, Mary, died in 1995. He is survived by their children, Beth Lewis, Sarah Hanniford, Lisa Coakley, Ellen Barker, and James and John Greenbaum; 19 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. To them all, the class sends condolences.