Bruce E. Burnham ’60

Talk about work ethic! At our 50th reunion, Bruce proudly described the full services cosmetic Plastic Surgery Center he had just opened in Glastonbury, Conn. It replaced his first clinic there established in 1985. He continued practicing until 2024 and died on his 87th birthday Dec. 16, 2024.

Before all that, Bruce was raised in Williamsville, in western New York, and attended high school there. Coming to Princeton, he majored in biology, was on the swim team, ate at Charter, and was in the Outing Club and Pre-Med Society. He earned a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1964, interned at Yale in 1965, and completed residency in plastic surgery at Cornell Medical Center. In 1968 at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, he served in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps as a captain. He then practiced at Hartford Hospital until transitioning into private practice, which grew into the Plastic Surgery Clinic around 1985 and the center in 2010.

Bruce loved his family — wife Debi, four sons, two daughters, and six grandchildren — his thriving practice, and gentleman farming on his Federalist era country estate in East Windsor, Conn., on the banks of the Connecticut River. The class’s sympathies go to all the family.