Charles P. Emerson ’33

CHARLES (BUD) EMERSON DIED Jan. 23, 1991, at Newton Wellesley Hospital. He lived in Wellesley Hills, Mass. A memorial service was held Jan. 28 at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills.

Bud was born June 3, 1912, in Indianapolis. He prepared at Park School, Indianapolis, and at Andover.

In college Bud was concertmaster of the orchestra, a member of the choir, of Cloister Inn, and of Sigma X. He roomed with Dick Martin.

After college Bud went to Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1937. Following some time at the Univ. of Vienna and at Boston City Hospital, he joined Harvard Medical School. During WWII he was stationed in Europe, where he was a It. colonel, Fifth General Hospital Unit. in 1946 he became assistant professor of medicine at Boston Univ. Medical School, from which he retired in 1977 as professor and chairman of hematology.

Bud was active in medical societies and in blood research. Through the years he played the violin in the Wellesley Symphony, of which he was a founder.

On May 10, 1941, Bud married Annette L. Bryant in Hyde Park, Mass. They had three sons, C.P. Jr., James B., and Robert M.; and two daughters, Annette W. and Janet P. There are three grandchildren. Bud's sister Phoebe is the widow of our classmate Walt Compton. The Class of 1933 expresses its sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1933