Howard Adler ’47

Howie joined us in 1943 as a premed V-12er. During World War II and the Korean conflict he served as a seagoing physician. He returned to Princeton in 1946, married Alice Richman in 1947, and graduated in 1948. He finished his medical degree at New York University and moved to Bridgewater, N.J.

He practiced radiology for 50 years in Somerset County, receiving a Golden Merit Award from New Jersey's Medical Society. (Despite this honor Howie often would recount, with glee, how a lady once asked if his vocation was fixing radios, and would he kindly fix hers.)

He and Alice lived a "wonderful, contented life" in Bridgewater, while raising three beautiful daughters (who came to be known as "Howard's Harem" — though Howie was no sultan). He enjoyed a lifelong passion for studying the ocean and its many treasures, an avocation nurtured by his Navy experience and seaside vacations in New Jersey and Massachusetts. He cherished Princeton and said he was a "grateful guy, lucky enough to attend such a wonderful university."

Alice died in July 2006, ending a 58-year love affair. Howie followed her soon afterward, dying Dec. 24. We send these fond recollections and our sympathy to their three daughters and their grandchildren.