Donald Bernhard Broering ’49

Don died of metastatic liver cancer Jan. 3, 1995, at his country home in Santa Rosa, Calif. He was 66. Don attended Forest Hills H.S. on Long Island, N.Y. At Princeton, he majored in psychology and was a member of Cloister Inn, the Chapel Choir, Glee Club, and Outing Club.

After graduating in Feb. 1949, he worked for a year at the U.S. Consulate in Switzerland, processing people displaced by WWII. Don attended Johns Hopkins Medical School and did his pediatric residency there.

He served three "enjoyable years" as a captain in the Air Force Medical Service in France and Germany. Returning to the U.S., Don settled in San Francisco and took an extended pediatric residency at Stanford Univ. Hospital. A brief time of private practice preceded a 32-year association with Kaiser Permanente as a pediatrician and child advocate.

In 1989 Don retired and moved to Berlin to study painting. He was very proud of his German heritage, and was fluent in German, French, and Spanish. Returning to San Francisco, Don continued to study and paint, knowledgeably assembling an enviable collection of contemporary paintings and graphics.

Don is survived by his partner, Gary F. Grimmett, to whom the class extends its deepest condolences in the loss of this dedicated doctor and fine classmate.

The Class of 1949