Donald Stone Dock ’49

Don, a leading New Haven cardiologist, died Dec. 3, 1996, at Connecticut Hospice after a long illness. He was 69. Don prepared for Princeton at Exeter. At Princeton he majored in chemistry, was a member of the Pre-Med Society, Chemistry Club, and Cannon Club. He served in the Army Signal Corps from Mar. 1946 until May 1947 in the Pacific theater. He then went to Johns Hopkins medical school, graduating in 1954. He later trained at Yale and Harvard.

Don practiced in New Haven for 36 years, and at the time of our 45th reunion he was with the Connecticut Heart Group. He was chief of medicine at St. Raphael's Hospital from 1963-81, except for 1972-74, when he was chief of medicine for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. He was clinical professor of medicine at Yale school of medicine.

Don married Elizabeth McNeil in 1959, and they had three children. He loved fishing, hiking, and boating, and tried not to let a 1994 heart attack and heart surgery slow him down.

Besides his wife, Don is survived by daughters Elizabeth Early and Ann Dock, a son, William, and three grandchildren. To each of them the class extends its most profound sympathy.

The Class of 1949