Bert died April 8, 2015, in Westford , Mass.

He came to Princeton from the Pingry School in Elizabeth, N.J., where his father was the athletic director and a teacher. Bert joined Tiger Inn and majored in biology. He was also on the freshman and varsity swimming teams.

He married Mary Louise Moench in 1959 and received his medical degree from Columbia. Bert completed his four years of residency in surgery and medicine with a specialty in obstetrics and gynecology at Cornell New York Hospital Center in 1968.

After a three-year tour with the Air Force in England, Bert returned to Concord, Mass., where he practiced for 25 years and delivered more than 5,000 babies.

The Lesneski family summers were centered around Squam Lake in Holderness, N.H. Bert truly embraced the art of fishing — all styles — and often caught “The Biggest Fish” in the lake, a story he loved to tell.

In 1978, his wife, Mary, was killed in an automobile accident that nearly took Bert’s life as well. In 1980 he married Carol Marie Schmidt.

To Carol; his children, Diane, Reid, Kathryn, and Connor; and grandchildren Samuel, Jessica, Erika, Zoe, and Emilie, the class extends its deepest sympathy.

Undergraduate Class of 1958