David Prince Earle Jr. ’33

Bud died Jan. 31, 2002, at his home in Wilmette, Ill. He was 91. The eulogy written by his family called him "a loyal friend, invaluable colleague. Patient and selfless mentor. Physician, scientist, scholar, and educator. Athlete, patriot, and true gentleman." Bud graduated from Columbia medical school in 1937. During WWII he studied malaria in Panama for the Army. He returned to service as a brigadier general in Korea to study and treat hemorrhagic fever. His next government venture was to Trinidad to study post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis. In the meantime he became chair of the medicine department at Northwestern Medical School.

Bud and Betty were married 62 years before she died. They had four sons — David III, Paul, Kevin, and Charles — and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1933