Benjamin Vroom White Jr. ’30

Ben, one of the distinguished physicians in the class, died Dec. 19, 2005. His father and brother were Tigers, as were five cousins.

Ben came to Princeton from Hotchkiss, where he was on the publications board, foreshadowing interests in writing and photography. He spent summers sailing with the Cotuit Mosquitoes.

Ben's sailing skills enabled him to spend college summers in Newfoundland with the International Grenfell Association, a fore-

runner of the Peace Corps that provided medical care for isolated Labrador fishing villages. Ben headed the Princeton branch, and this whetted his interest in medicine. He earned a medical degree cum laude from Harvard in 1934.

In 1933 he married Charlotte "Connie" Conover. The couple had three sons by 1942, when Ben began Navy duty at Bethesda Naval Hospital and aboard the USS Benevolence in the Pacific. He returned to practice in Hartford, Conn., as a gastroenterologist, and the couple had a fourth son and a daughter. Connie died in 1966 and Ben later married Helen Cobb Solomon, now deceased.

Ben published studies on the role psychology plays in medicine, and wrote a biography of his father-in-law Dr. Stanley Cobb, titled A Builder of the Modern Neurosciences.

To Ben's widow, the former Marjorie Bennett; four sons; daughter Charlotte Cowan '75; a sister; and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the class sends deep sympathy.

The Class of 1930