David L. Spanel ’50

Dave died June 8, 2004, at his home in Princeton after a long illness.

He graduated from the Horace Mann School in New York City and attended Princeton for three years before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his bachelor's degree. While at Princeton he was a member of Court Club, and as a freshman participated in the theft of the clapper.

After Penn he moved to North Carolina, brokered life insurance for three years, and graduated with a medical degree from Duke University in 1958. After a year's internship at Bellevue Hospital of NYU Medical Center, he became an assistant resident in neurosurgery at Boston City Hospital. He returned to Princeton in 1969, where he was a retired physician at his death.

Dave was an avid distance runner and hiked along the Appalachian Trail.

Our condolences go to his seven children, Donald '74, Celia, Edith, Emily, Daniel, Michael, and Amy; stepmother Margaret Spanel; his half-sister, Ann Spanel; and two grandchildren.

The Class of 1950