Elmer Henry Brown ’48

El Brown, a native of Trenton, N.J., and a graduate of George School in Newtown, Pa., died May 31, 2006, at his home at Avila Beach, Calif.

At Princeton he lettered in basketball, was active in track and crew, was a member of Cannon Club, and graduated in June 1947. He went on to the Temple University School of Dentistry, where he graduated in 1951 as an oral surgeon. This was followed by further graduate training at Penn.

El spent 34 years in oral surgery until retirement in 1990 from his San Luis Obispo practice. He was chief of the medical staff of two local hospitals. The 1995 California Dental Association meeting in San Francisco was dedicated to him. El maintained he resisted retirement until he "got it right."

He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1995 and participated in several research programs with the hope of extending his life and the lives of others.

El and Anna McGovney were married in 1954. She survives him along with their children Barbara, Cynthia, Marian, and Richard '86. El's Catholicism was a refuge and a strength all of his life.