Charles Allen Perera ’26

Our classmate Charles A. Perera, MD, widely known and highly respected in the field of ophthalmology, died Jan. 27, 1998, at Kendal, a Quaker-sponsored retirement community in Kennett Square, Pa. Throughout his life Charlie supported many humanitarian causes, aside from his outstanding research on the eye.

At Princeton he made Phi Beta Kappa in junior year and turned down a Rhodes Scholarship, which he felt would interfere with his planned study of medicine at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Charlie received many awards for distinguished service, including the Class of 1926 Achievement Award. In his practice he endeared himself especially to children and the elderly. Charlie and Ruth Hoopes Brinton were married in 1932 and soon after became residents of Scarsdale, N.Y., where they brought up their five children, four of whom survive him: Sylvia, Donald, Ellen Perera Scott, and Carol Perera Weingeist. Charlie and Ruth moved to Kendal in 1984; Ruth died in 1987. Charlie is also survived by a sister, Lydia Perera Marcus, a brother, George A. '33, MD, 11 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren, to all of whom we extend our profound sympathy.

The Class of 1926