Bayard Coggeshall ’39

Sam died at his home in Basking Ridge, N.J., Feb. 27, 2004.

He and Mary Achilles, his wife of 62 years, moved there recently from their lifetime home in Mendham, N.J., where he was a practicing pediatrician for 41 years in Morristown, N.J. After Princeton, Sam attended McGill University Medical School in Montreal, graduating in 1943. He then served during World War II in the Navy Medical Corps, assigned to amphibious duty on an LST that participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Settling into his private pediatric practice in Morristown, he became widely known and loved for his special manner of taking care of his young patients. When he retired in 1990 there was an outpouring of praise and admiration for his long service to the community. He and Mary traveled widely while he worked in human-development projects in Canada, the Philippines, Venezuela, India, Africa, and Alaska. His children and grandchildren fondly remembered his special way of fathering on camping trips together in Canada and the United States.

Mary survives as do their daughters Patricia, Joan, and Cynthia; sons Charles and David; 13 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. We offer our sincere sympathy. Like them, we have many happy memories to recall in the life of our extraordinary friend.

The Class of 1939