Gordon B. Magill ’44

Our only classmate from North Dakota, Gordy died July 25, 2003. He had a distinguished medical career, specializing in cancer research and treatment.

He was one of the founders of the Princeton Nassoons musical group. At our 50th reunion they sang their famous arrangement of "Perfidia" with Gordy as lead second tenor.

He majored in biology, was a member of Quadrangle Club, and roomed with Bill Zinsser. He left to enter Columbia's Medical School in 1943 under the Navy V-12 program, and received his Princeton degree in 1946, the year of his MD degree.

After his medical residency, the Navy sent him to Cairo to a research unit studying tropical disease. Four years later, he began oncological research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in NYC, remaining there until retirement in 1989 except for a period of private practice in Fargo, N.D., where he sang in musical comedy productions.

He is survived by his wife, Narda; four children from his first marriage, Lucille, Pamela, Debbie, and Barbara; and many grandchildren, to whom we send our regrets.

The Class of 1944