George Brockenbrough McAdams ’42

GEORGE DIED July 20, 1993, in the Winship Green Nursing Home in Bath, Maine. His extraordinary life included three careerspathology, preaching, and writing. At the time of his death, he and his widow, Alice, lived in Damariscotta, Maine, near Rackliff Island, in Spruce Head, where he had retired in 1982.

Coming to Princeton from Gilman, George majored in biology and was a member of Colonial Club. He received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1945 and spent one and a half years in the army medical corps. His 35 years as a pathologist at Hartford Hospital included serving as director of its resident training program and the laboratory of nuclear medicine. He was president of the New England Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine from 1973 to 1974.

In 1961, George was ordained as a perpetual deacon in the Episcopal Church and as a priest in 1970. He was rector of Old St. Andrew's Church in Bloomfield, Conn., from 1976 to 1982.

Following retirement from his second career, George turned his hand to writing and published two books, A SORT OF JOURNEY and HELLBENT FOR HEAVEN.

To his wife of 46 years, Alice; his sons, Tom, Carter '73, and Ted; his daughter, Molly; and his five grandchildren, the class extends its most sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1942