Betsy Lampert Minkin ’77

Betsy died Dec. 23, 2025, of lymphoma at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Born May 27, 1955, she majored in economics at Princeton and earned a master’s in industrial labor relations at Cornell. After 27 years at the NYSE, she became a compliance consultant for KGS-Alpha, retiring in 2022.

Diagnosed with intractable hepatitis while in high school, it didn’t stop her. She maintained a full social and academic schedule at Princeton, where she met her future husband, and pursued travel, a lifelong passion. Her career took a detour in 1981 when she became one of the first people in the world to receive a liver transplant, effectively serving as a beta tester for the immunosuppressant drugs that have saved so many lives. It was then that many of her friends realized the gravity of her illness. Post-surgery, she weathered many medical crises as doctors struggled to keep her from rejecting the new organ.

Two years later she married Josh Minkin ’78. In 1999, they traveled to China to adopt an infant daughter, Emma. She died less than a year later of a sudden illness. Three years later, they returned to China and adopted a second daughter, Adina, now 24. Betsy stayed busy as a volunteer, serving for 10 years as a trustee of Brooklyn’s Union Temple and a trustee of The Daily Princetonian, where she had worked as business staff, helping organize a successful fundraising effort to digitize the print archives.

The Minkins traveled ambitiously, despite continuing medical challenges. Betsy underwent two kidney transplants after her liver surgery. She is survived by her husband and daughter, and her brother, Billy, and his wife, Naomi.