Clyde B. Lamp Jr. ’43

Clyde died Nov. 4, 2024, at the age of 103. 

He came to Princeton from Shady Side Academy as a pre-med student and left after his junior year to go to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. It being wartime, his studies there were also accelerated, and he earned a medical degree in June 1945. 

Following an internship at Mercy Hospital, he served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps for two years, stationed in the Philippines. Stateside, he was appointed to Richland General Hospital, serving the Hanford Project. He obtained further training as a fellow in otolaryngology at the Mayo Clinic and received an M.S. from the University of Minnesota. From 1953 until retirement in 1992, Lampie served patients in his private practice in Pittsburgh, while also teaching as a clinical associate professor of otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

In his 32 years of retirement, Clyde enjoyed working in his yard, watching deer and other wildlife from his porch, reading, wintering with family in Sarasota, Fla., and playing Scrabble. Clyde was a master mason and a member of the Charleroi-Monongahela Lodge for 81 years, a member of the Masons’ Scottish Rite for 25 years, and a Shriner. He had many fond memories of Princeton, particularly of encountering Albert Einstein and of going on tour with the Princeton Glee Club.

Clyde was predeceased by his wife of 66 years, Jean, whom he met on a blind date for a dance at her college (Pennsylvania College for Women ’43) while he was in medical school. He is survived by their two children, C. Benjamin III and Jere.