Charles T. Scribner ’64

Charlie, who entered Princeton with the Class of 1962 but graduated with ’64, died March 10, 2014, after a long battle with lung disease.

He came to Old Nassau from New York City and Deerfield and went from Princeton to the University of Chicago, where he earned two medical degrees. He spent most of his working years as a general practitioner in the Chicago area. He later settled in Canton, Conn.

Late in his career he gave generously of his time to elderly patients, making rounds and house calls without compensation. He is remembered as a rebel with and without a cause who read voraciously, loved argument, and enjoyed testing the tolerance of his more conservative colleagues.

Charlie studied the classics, history, poetry, prehistoric astronomy, celestial navigation, mythology, and paleo-archaeology. He was admired for his tenacious pursuit of solutions to intricate problems and his whimsical poems. Behind his irascible façade was a youthful inquisitiveness coupled with an awkward shyness in social situations. One friend wrote of him, “He was a rare bird and will be missed.”

Charlie is survived by his faithful wife, Lisa, and their two spirited daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah, to whom the class sends condolences.