Charley Friedman died Jan. 26, 2014, in Houston after a long struggle with leukemia.

He came to Princeton from Memphis Central High School. Charley belonged to Terrace Club, majored in chemistry, and roomed with A.G. Kasselberg, Dean Pope, and Bruce McConnell.

Following graduation, he earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins. After service with the National Institutes of Health and training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Duke, Charley had a distinguished career as a neonatologist. He constantly devoted himself to finding new ways to save the lives of the very young.

Charley conveyed his passion for medicine as service to others to his two sons, Judah ’97, and Adam ’01, and they followed him in careers as distinguished physicians. His intellectual interests included Civil War history, automobiles, and Latin. He had a wonderful eye and ear for the absurd. From his days at Princeton and throughout his life, friends and family were buoyed by his keen and delightful observations of the pompous and the pretentious. Even in his illness, his good humor and wit never failed him.

Charley is survived by Ruth, his wife of 42 years; his brother; his two sons and their wives; and two grandchildren.

Undergraduate Class of 1967