H. Thomas Randall ’37

Dr. TOM RANDALL'S DISTINGUISHED medical career ended May 31, 1994, after a three-year illness. He leaves his widow, Louise, whom he married in 1940; two daughters; and four grandchildren.

Tom prepared at McBurney School in N.Y.C. At Princeton, he majored in biology, with honors. He belonged to Triangle Club, was on the varsity debating panel, was president of Cliosophic Society, and was secretary and v.p. of the Model Senate Assn. Bill went to Columbia P. & S. and graduated in 1941. Then he interned at Presbyterian Hospital.

From 1942-1945, he served in the 83rd Infantry Division. He became a lt. col., won a Bronze Star with oak-leaf cluster and a unit citation, and saw action in Normandy, northern France, and central Germany. In 1944, he wrote, "It's hell most of the time, muddy, wet, disagreeable."  

He returned to Presbyterian for a residence in surgery, receiving a medical-science degree in surgery from Columbia P. & S. in 1950. By 1952, he was associate professor of surgery at Cornell and was chief of surgical services at the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. In 1967, he joined Brown Univ. Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital; he served as professor of surgery and chairman of that department until he retired in 1979. For his many, many honors, check his entry in Who’s Who. All our sympathies go to Louise and the family.