Charles S. Stevenson Jr. ’59

A freak accident took the life of Charlie Stevenson in Sanbornton, N.H., on July 6, 1999. A lightning bolt split a 60-foot pine tree, sending it crashing down onto the car that Charlie was driving. Miraculously, his niece and nephew, in the back seat, were only slightly injured.

Charlie came to Princeton from Phillips Exeter. He played freshman soccer, joined Quadrangle Club, and sang in both the Glee Club and chapel choir, becoming choir pres. in his senior year. Four years of line duty as a Navy officer, spent mostly at sea on the USS Hawkins, followed graduation.

Although he majored in English literature and earned a graduate degree in English studies from the U. of Edinburgh, Charlie chose medicine as his profession, earning his credentials at Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons, and doing further graduate work at McGill.

In 1975, Charlie moved to Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H., as a general surgeon and emergency department physician. Ten years later, he took his fellowship in emergency medicine and practiced exclusively in that area until he retired in 1996.

Charlie is survived by his wife, Diana, whom he married in Scotland in 1966, daughters Katy and Alice, sons Peter and Ian, three sisters, and his father, Charles Sr. '30. To all of them the class extends its heartfelt sympathies.

The Class of 1959