Albert Minzter ’47

In 1953 he took up practice as an internist in Elizabeth, N.J., and married Leatrice Friedman in 1958. His busy career included teaching, contributing articles to his profession, founding the tuberculosis clinic in Union County, N.J., and serving as the clinic’s first director. However, above all, Al’s work centered on understanding and contributing to the lives of his patients. He deplored today’s regulated practice that increasingly interfered with the kind of personal care he so valued.

Among Al’s many outside activities was his ardent support of the desperate, international efforts to rescue Raoul Wallenberg (who saved so many from the Holocaust) from a Russian prison. Al’s passionate interest in Pueblo Indian culture and art and his visits to New Mexico also added a special joy to his life.

He was a warmhearted classmate, and his devotion to 1947 and to Princeton, which his son, Ronald ’82, also attended, added to his enjoyment of life.

He died Oct. 15, 2007. We tender this celebration of a life well lived to Leatrice, their three children, and two grandchildren.