Edmund J. Doering III ’65

Ted came to us from Choate after a commitment to the Army in Germany, largely assisting at the Army Hospital there helping birth babies. This service gave him seniority in ROTC when he arrived on campus, which he enjoyed chuckling about. He majored in basic engineering and took his meals at Charter. Then came a medical degree at Northwestern and residency at the Medical University of South Carolina before he turned to pediatrics, retiring in 2010 after many years of 55-hour weeks at work.

An onset of continuing knee and joint infections caused him to have five operations in 24 months and later a 200-day hospital stay and five months of no golf. His spirits remained high, and he found that scuba diving worked for him and his family in terms of recreation and vacations all over the Caribbean, near his home in Jupiter, Fla.

Meanwhile, he continued with his boundless enthusiasm for life and was highly visible at our 50th. After that he threw a weeklong party on a ranch for all his living relatives.

Ted died April 20, 2020. He is survived by his wife, Di, and ex-wife, Marcia; sons Edmund IV and Albert Huntington Doering; and daughter Averill P. Doering. The class sends its condolences to his family on the loss of a great, fun, larger-than-life guy.