Ernest Valiant De Moss ’44

ERNIE DIED from a heart ailment, while visiting family in Plano, Tex., May 21, 1991. He was a truly admirable man, dedicated to his medical calling, his family, and his community. At Princeton he roomed with Ward Sangren and then Doc Schuyler, lettered in lacrosse, and managed Key and Seal. He earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins, and interned at Union Memorial in Baltimore. His surgical residency was at Public Health in Boston, After leaving the Service he was a Memorial Hospital in N.Y.C. Following a highly respected career treating cancer and related diseases on both Coasts, he retired in 1984 from the surgery branch of the National Cancer Institute at Bethesda. It retirement he devoted himself to the Alliance for the mentally Ill. He loved gardening, working about his home and visiting his beloved offspring in Texas and California. He was a collector and student of books on the English language and linguistics. He is survived by Virginia, his wife of 45 years; two daughters and a sister; and six grandchildren. Our deepest sympathies to all who knew and were touched by him.

The Class of 1944