Arthur Homer Silvers ’39

Art died Apr. 6, 1999, at Lancaster [Pa.] General Hospital. He and Edith, his wife of 57 years, had moved to Willow Village in Lancaster in 1995.

After graduating from the U. of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1943, Art served two years in the Army Medical Corps. Returning to the Philadelphia area, he finished his training as chief surgical resident at Chester Hospital and St. Frances Hospital.

He was in the private practice of abdominal and thoracic surgery at Chester, Sacred Heart, and Crozer-Chester Hospitals from 1949-72. Then, at the age of 56, he returned to school at the U. of Michigan to specialize in the treatment of burn patients. He was the founder and first director of the Crozer-Chester Burn Center from 1972 until his retirement in 1978. During his professional career he was president of the Delaware County Medical Society, chairman of the House Staff Committee, and administrator of the Trauma Service; he also taught surgical residents from Hahnemann Medical School.

Art's failing eyesight in later years kept him from attending Reunions, but he and Edie were longtime rooters for Princeton. We offer our sincere sympathy to Edie, their daughters Marsha and Gay, son Arthur '73, and three grandchildren.

The Class of 1939