Alden B. Hall ’47

Entering Princeton in 1943, Aldie was swept into the Army in 1944. He returned in 1947; so, too, by fortunate coincidence, did his older brother, our classmate Tad. They roomed together for three happily remembered years, and certainly remained very close thereafter.

Aldie excelled in biology, earned varsity letters in wrestling and track, sang in the Chapel Choir, and became a patriotic Princetonian for the rest of his life. After college he earned a master's in biology at Amherst and an MD at Rochester, and interned at New York's famed Bellevue Hospital. He went on to private practice for 30 years as a surgeon in Newton, N.J.

Aldie's charming recollections of these years are reflected in his memories of professional colleagues and the foibles of his patients, published in 2005 and titled A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the OR.

In 1955 he married Audrey Schramm, mother of his three children. She died in 1996. He married Monica O'Callahan shortly thereafter, and they enjoyed wonderfully happy retirement years in Florida until Aldie's death Jan. 11, 2006.

To Monica, the children, and Tad, we offer this fond remembrance of this happy classmate and devoted Princetonian.

The Class of 1947