Charles Buckman Katzenbach ’34

Buck Katzenbach, former chief of surgery (1969-76) at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J., which he was instrumental in starting, died Mar. 26, 2002, five days before his 90th birthday, at home in Hopewell, N.J.

Buck practiced at Hunterdon from 1953, when the hospital opened, to 2001, when he retired, though he continued working part-time as surgical assistant in the operating room in orthopedic, gynecological, general, and endoscopic surgery. He was a professor at the U. of Medicine & Dentistry of N.J. in Newark and at Rutgers; a fellow of the American College of Surgeons; and a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey and the AMA.

A WWII veteran (1942-46; discharged as a colonel), he was named the 1999 Veterans Day honoree of the 112th Field Artillery Assn., and he was an elder and longtime member of the Hopewell Presbyterian Church.

Buck married Marylu Robison, a former nurse, who died in 1996. Surviving are sons Charles B. '71 and Peter T., sister Augusta Gardener, brother, H. Hall Jr. *37, and two grandsons. Nicholas Katzenbach '43, former attorney general, is a cousin.

The Class of 1934