George D. Nesbitt ’51

George died at home on Dec. 26, 2022. He was 93.

He was born in Dehradun, India, where his father, Ralph Beryl Nesbitt 1914, taught in Presbyterian schools. They moved to Larchmont, N.Y., where George attended Mamaroneck High School. At Princeton, he majored in English literature under Robert Frost biographer Lawrance Thompson.

George went on to study medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He initially considered a practice in pediatrics, but a brief stint in the Air Force redirected him to psychiatry. Moving his young family to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Md., area, he engaged in private practice for almost four decades, maintaining an affiliation with Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.

George was an enthusiastic sailor and fisherman, passions that led him to own and operate a marina on the Chesapeake Bay. He reignited a family history of small-scale farming by establishing and managing a fruit farm in Calvert County, Md.

A voracious reader, George attached dozens of Post-it notes to favorite books, adding his own thoughts about what he read. He delighted in sharing these running commentaries with anyone who would listen. He sent long, sometimes rambling handwritten letters to those he loved. Payment for a landscaping invoice might be returned with a missive on topics ranging from family affairs to politics to the economy; others received Xeroxed articles from The New York Review of Books and the Sunday papers. While he rarely spoke about his ancestry, George held family documents tracing the Nesbitts back to pre-Revolutionary times.

George is survived by his wife, Maureen; children Kathryn, Lois *88, and Ralph; and grandchildren Laura and Russell.