Alfred Leonard Florman ’34

AL FLORMAN, a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics, honored for his contributions to die Academy of Pediatrics, the N.Y. Academy of Medicine, and the March of Dimes, died July 16, 1990. At his death, the N.Y.U. School of medicine, where he taught from 1963ig8l, said, "His broad experience as a physician, his particular skills in infectious diseases, and his gentle manner enriched the training of hundreds of medical students and house staff, and elicited respect and admiration from his colleagues on the faculty." The North Shore (L.I.) Univ. Hospital, where he was the first director of pediatrics and "an important part of our hospital from its earliest days," praised "his devotion to the practice of medicine, his love for children, and his conscientiousness."

Since 1981 Al and his wife, the former Ruth Ludeke, whom he met while he was a resident and she a student nurse at Mt. Sinai Hospital in N.Y.C., and whom he married in 1944, lived in Albuquerque, where he served parttime at the Univ. of New Mexico Medical School Ruth survives, as do three daughters, Debbie, Sue, and Amy, and five grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934