David Gorham Greene ’36

DAVE DIED of cancer on Oct. 30, 1991, in Buffalo. He was the son of Dr. Clayton W. Greene '06.

Having prepared at Buffalo's Nichols School, Dave majored in history at Princeton, was president of Key & Seal, and was copy editor of the DAILY PRINCETONIAN. In 1940 he graduated from Harvard Medical School. For three years during WWII he served in North Africa, Italy, and France as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

After the war Dave worked at Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Univ.'s College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1948 he became a research fellow at the Univ. of Buffalo's School of Medicine. There he taught courses in cardiovascular physiology and was named a professor of medicine in 1970 and professor emeritus in 1986. His duties as a practicing physician revolved around the Buffalo General Hospital, He became widely recognized as an expert cardiologist and a pioneering advocate in the development of angiography. Dave's outstanding service to medicine through research, teaching, and practice spanned 50 years.

Dave traveled widely in response to teaching and research invitations and as an eager student of nature. His physiological interests took him to Alaska, Antarctica, the Faeroe Islands, and part way up Mt. Everest.

Dave is survived by his widow, Edith Albertson, whom he married on 1946; by daughters Amy A., Eleanor 0., and Dr. Constance G. Klocke; son Stephen G.; brother Richard W. '48; and by a granddaughter.

Here was a man with an avidly inquiring mind and absolute integrity, who was at ease with the world and devoted to Princeton.

The Class of 1936