Harold G. Spence ’35

HAL SPENCE died Mar. 17, 1992, in Naples, Fla., at age 79. That afternoon he suffered a heart attack, having played golf with a friend in the morning.

Hal prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville and Morristown Preparatory School. At Princeton he majored and won honors in biology, rowed on the freshman 150lb. crew, was president of the Pistol Club, and was a member of Court Club.

Following graduation lie went to Columbia Medical School and served as an intern and then head resident at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, N.J., where he was born. After serving with the Navy during WWII in both the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters, Hal joined the Summit Medical Group, in 1948, and was head of its obstetrics and gynecology department for many years.

Unfortunately, a second heart attack persuaded him to retire in 1967 and move to New Hampshire, where he raised prize beef cattle for 13 years. The last delivery he assisted was that of a granddaughter of Mary and classmate Doug Ward.

For the past several years, Hal and his wife, Betty, had been splitting their time between Naples and the North Carolina mountains, where despite failing eyesight, he enjoyed gardening, golf, and bridge.

Hal was a gentleman of the old school and he will be missed. To his widow, Betty; his daughters Eleanor Bates and Virginia LeRoy; his son Douglas; his brother Alexander P.'36; and his sister Doris Kennedy w'34, the Class extends its very sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1935