Albert Van Eerde II ’44

Al died in Wayne, N.J., on July 18, 2002. He came to Princeton from Pingry; he majored in biology, played in the band, and was a member of Prospect Club. Service in the Army and Air Force took him to Penn for his MD; Princeton gave him his AB in 1947.

After a two-year residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, he practiced anesthesiology for 31 years, many of them as chief, at Wayne and Paterson General Hospitals. He sang in the North Haledon, N.J., Presbyterian Church Choir.

After he retired, Al and his wife, Gerda, divided their time between New Jersey and Delray Beach, Fla., where he was president of the Pharmacy Medicine Group. He was successful for many years in his struggle with cancer.

He and Gerda had four children, Amy, Karen, Christie, and Albert, and 10 grandchildren: to them his classmates at Princeton send their condolences.

The Class of 1944