Alan D. Manzler ’59

Al died Aug. 22, 2022, in the city of his youth and professional life, Cincinnati.

Captaincy of Cincinnati’s Withrow High School football team and selection as president of its honor society foreshadowed a varsity letter in football sophomore year at Princeton, a major in biology, meals at Cap and Gown, and membership in the St. Paul’s Society Cabinet.

A distinguished medical career began with Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, a Chicago Presbyterian-St. Luke’s internship — during which he met and married Judy — and a University of Michigan kidney fellowship residency. Al was an instructor in the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Medicine, and director of nephrology at Cincinnati’s Christ Hospital, where he started its dialysis and transplant program. Later, he joined a private practice, Nephrology Consultants Inc.

A strong family man, Al vacationed at Lake McConaughy in Ogallala, Neb., where Judy had grown up. He coached his children and grandchildren’s sports while avidly pursuing tennis and golf. He served on the vestry and health and welfare programs of the Church of the Redeemer in Cincinnati. Travel to an international transplant meeting in Israel in 1974 spurred global jaunts from China to Europe.

The class extends its deepest sympathy to Judy; their children Michael, Anne, and Kate; and his seven grandchildren.