Harry Henry Leveen ’36

Harry died of heart failure Dec. 28, 1996. He was 82. He prepared at Lawrenceville School, and at Princeton he majored in biology. In 1940 he received his medical degree from NYU's medical school. He was a renown surgeon whose innovative contributions improved treatments over a diverse range of illnesses. He wrote over 200 scientific articles and had been awarded over 100 patents from medical devices to chemical processes. He was a member of several leading medical societies here and abroad.

His many academic positions included those at the U. of Chicago, Loyola, the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, the Brooklyn VA Medical Center, and the Royal College of Surgeons in London. In 1979 he became chief of surgery at the Medical U. of South Carolina in Charleston. He retired in 1988. He then devoted full attention to many research projects and at the time of his death he was working on new models for oral vaccines, bactericidal plastics, and novel cancer therapies.

In 1945 he married Jeannette Rubricius MD. She died in 1992. He is survived by his wife, Mary Louise Robey LeVeen, sons Robert F. MD, Eric G. MD, a brother, Edward P., a sister, Alice M., and five grandchildren. The class is indeed proud of Harry's productive and meaningful life.

The Class of 1936.