Fred Wendell Doyle ’50

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Fred died of brain cancer on Feb. 15, 2000. He was 72.

While at Princeton, he was a member of Tower Club, Theatre Intime, and Orange Key and participated in freshman crew and wrestling.

Following graduation, Fred entered Yale medical school, earning his MD in 1955. He continued his internship and assistant residency at Yale in the department of pathology. Then followed four years in the navy, where he was stationed for two years each at Bethesda and Pensacola.

In 1965, Fred settled in Coventry, Conn., and spent the next 22 years as cohead of the pathology department at Windham Memorial Community Hospital in Willimantic. He retired in 1987 and moved to Lake Lure in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where he maintained a lakeside garden and set up a woodworking shop.

Fred was predeceased by five months by his wife, Priscilla. He is survived by three sons: Scott W., Bret, and David B., to whom the class offers its sincerest sympathies.

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