Frederick H. Gloeckner Jr. ’52

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Fred died July 6, 2012, in 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada, of multiple myeloma. He practiced family medicine there for 30 years.

Fred graduated from Germantown Friends School. At Princeton he played varsity football, joined Cannon Club, and roomed with Albin Rauch. He earned his medical degree at Temple University School of Medicine in 1956.

In 1959, Fred married Linda Philip, and , after her death in 1987, he married Mary McArdle.

He is survived by Mary; his children, Robert, Cherie, Laurie, and Mark; stepchildren Mavis and Patrick McArdle; his sister, Kathy Shaifer, and her husband, Carl ’53. To them all, the class offers sympathy.

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