James B. Raybin ’61

Jim died peacefully July 5, 2017, at home in Boulder, Colo. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he came to Princeton from Brush High School. At Princeton he majored in biology, dined at Cloister Inn, and was a Keyceptor and a member of the Pre-Medical Club. He also volunteered at a local mental hospital through the Student Christian Association. His roommates were Sid Friedman, Ben Bassett, Walter Schroeder, Tack Kuntz, and Dave Hulett.

Following a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and a psychiatry residency at Yale, Jim served during Vietnam as head of the inpatient psych unit at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Colorado, emerging as a major. After he met Kathy King in Colorado and married her in 1971, they moved to Boulder, where he began a long career in a private psychiatric practice after Jim had a stint as medical director of the University of Colorado’s student health services. Jim loved the Good Lord, his family, friends, and patients, as well as a variety of outdoor activities — tennis, snowshoeing, backpacking in the summer and winter, chess, and biking up Flagstaff Mountain, which he did some 5,000 times.

Jim was predeceased by his brother Arthur. He is survived by Kathy, daughters Jenny and Becky, sisters Susan and Nancy, and four grandchildren.