James L. Titchener ’44

Jim, who had been suffering from Parkinson's, died Feb. 28, 2003. Raised in Binghamton, N.Y., he was active at Princeton in varsity track as a distance runner and in many intramural sports. He was a member of Quadrangle Club and roomed with Bob Osborn junior year. After three years in the service he returned to graduate in economics in 1946, and then went to Duke Medical School; he commenced psychiatric training but was recalled for the Korean conflict, ending with the rank of captain.

Jim was professor of psychiatry at Cincinnati U.'s College of Medicine; his special field was psychiatric trauma, and his work won him awards from the US Public Health Service. He testified as an expert witness as to the effects on survivors of the Beverly Hills Supper Club and the Buffalo Creek disasters.

He was an avid sailboat racer, and took part in regattas in Thistles on Acton Lake. His first wife, Antoinette, a physician, died in 1982; he is survived by their son, Paul; daughters Patricia, Jennifer, and Antoinette; two grandsons; and by his wife, Judy, who is also a physician. They have the sympathetic regards of his Princeton classmates.

The Class of 1944