Hilbert S. Sabin ’32

Hib, a retired urologist who had a private practice in Washington, D.C., before becoming assistant chief of surgery for the Veterans Administration, died Dec. 28, 2004. He was 94.

Hib was born in Hastings, Neb., and raised in Washington. He prepared at St. Alban's School. At Princeton he was a member of Triangle Club and Quadrangle Club. Freshman year he roomed at 46 Hill with W.B. Kerkam; sophomore year at 22 Blair with C.R. Train; junior year at 312 Walker with C.R. Train, M.L. Monroe, F.A. West, and R. Carey; and senior year at 312 Walker with G.B. Agnew, A.D. Hall, M.L. Monroe, and F.A. West. He received a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1936. He did a surgical internship at John Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore and a surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Hib joined the Army Medical Corps at the beginning of World War II and served as a surgeon in the China-Burma-India theater. After the war, he returned to Washington, where he was in practice until he retired in 1973. That year, he began working for the Veterans Administration as assistant chief of surgery. He retired again in 1985.

His wife of 52 years, Katherine Sabin, died in 1998. Survivors include two daughters from his second marriage, Ann Norman and Barbara Daley; and a son from his first marriage, Hilbert Sabin Jr.; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren, to whom the class extends sincere condolences.

The Class of 1932