Bill Bush Jr. ’31

Charles William Bush Jr. died in St. Petersburg, Fla., June 15, 1997, after an amazingly varied career. At Princeton he majored in biology (graduating cum laude), was anchor man on the water polo team, and played the piano well. He earned an MD degree at Boston U. in 1936, was elected to the American College of Surgeons, and entered practice in Boston. During WWII, he served in the European theater with the Army Medical Corps, attaining the rank of major. After the war he did a stint as chief medical officer for the Florida State Prison at Raiford, Fla., and at the time of our 25th he had become medical director and chief of staff of the Berrien County Hospital in Berrien Center, Mich.

Bill married Cora Ann Duby in 1954; they had one son and one daughter. After Cora's death he remarried and moved to Ft. Lauderdale with his second wife, Isabel. There he reentered private practice, and designed and built (mostly by hand) a home in Stuart, Fla., on the St. Lucie River, where he also built a houseboat. At the suggestion of classmate Red Smith, he also bought and remodeled a home in the mountains of North Carolina where he and Isabel spent summers. As Bill's health failed, they moved into a small house in Tampa. The class extends its condolences to his widow and children.

The Class of 1931