G. Clayton Kyle ’45

Clayton died Dec. 24, 2014.

He entered Princeton from Texas Military Institute in San Antonio and joined Tower Club. Accelerating, he received a biology degree in 1944, graduating magna cum laude, and then earned a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.

After service in Germany with the CIA, he returned to Philadelphia to spend his entire career at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Clayton served as chair of the medical board for three years. He is considered a pioneer in the treatment of diabetes and founded the Rodebaugh Diabetes Center, where a chair in his name honors him.

His lifelong interests were fly-fishing and gardening with his family. In 1947, while he studied at Pennsylvania, he married Barbara McDowell and they had four sons, two of whom graduated from Princeton.

Barbara predeceased Clayton in 1998. He is survived by his sons, Rogers ’72, Clayton Jr. ’74, Wallace, and Louis; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The class expresses its sympathy to the family.