Douglas Chamberlain ’30

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Douglas Chamberlain, a prominent ear, nose, and throat specialist in Chattanooga, Tenn., for 45 years, died June 11, 1999. He was 91.

He prepared at the Hotchkiss School, and after graduating from Princeton, studied medicine at Johns Hopkins. While at Princeton, he was a member of the varsity crew squad and the Cap and Gown Club. During those four years he roomed at 185 Little with John C. Bennett.

Douglas served as a captain in the Army and was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., for one and a half years and in Europe for three and a half years. He was in England after the Normandy invasion and in the Seine River area in Paris.

He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Mary Ellis Cairnes; four children, Nan Smith; Elizabeth Tuller; Morrow; and Louise Tual; a sister, Louise C. Griffith; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family.

The Class of 1930

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