David Huber Healey ’81

David Huber Healey died Aug. 25, 1998, of head injuries sustained in a bicycle accident two days earlier. He was 38.

David graduated magna cum laude and majored in art history. At Princeton, he won the Page Award for his artwork. David lived in Montclair and worked as a visual artist in his studio in Glen Ridge, N.J. He left almost 100 oil works in his studio at the time of his death.

By all accounts, David lived with great energy and intensity. At his memorial service, his brother Bill read from an essay David wrote while at Princeton, projecting himself autobiographically as a 78yearold looking back on life: "Dreams never get old. They never change. But he felt a vague disappointment in never having reached that feeling of euphoria when he was awake as when he was asleep. But looking back, he loved his life. He was glad, too, that he was a little stupid: it had afforded him the opportunity to make some wonderful mistakes."

David is survived by his wife, Anna, stepdaughter Natalia Lachmann, parents Dr. William Healey '52 and Joan Roome, brother William V. '80, and sister Hilary Healey Watson '87. His family has established a memorial fund at Phillips Exeter Academy for scholarship funds and art supplies for aspiring artists. We extend to David's family our sympathy.

The Class of 1981