Donald S. Robertson ’41

Don died July 17, 2005, one month after retiring from medical practice.

A remarkable man, he won the Aurelian Cup while at The Hill School. At Princeton he was elected class president four times, chaired the Undergraduate Council, and was president of Tiger Inn. A superb athlete, he played varsity soccer, basketball, and golf. Forced to leave at the end of junior year by severe illness, he returned to graduate with 1942, earning high honors in modern languages.

Don graduated from Cornell Medical School and then served two tours in the Army Medical Corps, retiring as captain and head of gastroenterology at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital.

For 25 years, Don practiced gastroenterology in Denver before retiring to Scottsdale, Ariz. After three years, he returned to active practice, first training at the Center for Nutrition Research at Harvard, then founding the Southwest Bariatric Nutrition Center for the study and management of obesity. He won many national awards.

In 1986, Don and his wife, Carol, published The Snowbird Diet. Don was an excellent golfer, beginning in 1939 as low amateur in the Canadian Open, and later winning numerous amateur tournaments in the United States and Canada.

He is survived by Carol, his wife of 30 years; his son, Scott; and two grandchildren.

The Class of 1941