Charles Shailer Hascall ’34

Charlie Hascall, who, following graduation from Harvard Medical School, spent 35 years as a Navy medical officer specializing in pathology, died Jan. 28, 2006, two months before his 93rd birthday, it has just been learned.

He served in a number of Naval hospitals, from Chelsea, Mass., to San Francisco and Beaufort, S.C. During the Korean War he served in Japan and, as he later wrote, "came to like the country and the people very much."

In retirement Charlie indulged his lifelong interest in automobiles, of which he owned several older ones, including three Bugattis ("No," he wrote, "they're French, not Italian"). He also enjoyed doing his own house maintenance, yard work, etc.

"I've been happy," he wrote in 1984, "and it has been a good life. Frustrations, sadness, disappointment, of course, but by and large it has been productive, gratifying, and enjoyable."