James William Boyd ’39

Jim died Feb. 14, 2000, in his Addison, Ill., home. He was a surgeon at the Elmhurst Clinic, a suburban multispecialty medical group of which he was chair and cofounder, and with which he was associated for his entire active career. He earned his medical degree at Cornell U. medical school. He had no sooner taken the Hippocratic oath when two officers marched in and drafted half the class into the army and half into the navy. In 1943 he became an army lt. and was assigned to medical duties aboard troop trains. He joined the staff of Elmhurst Memorial Hospital in 1952, an association that lasted until he retired in 1986.

He and his family had a summer home on an island at Meredith, N.H. There, on Lake Winnipesaukee, he was happy to be a country doctor. At times he stitched up kids, and, once in a while, even someone's pet. He had a marked love of animals. He bred and raised Great Danes and kept a horse on his Addison property.

Jim is survived by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, their daughter, Elizabeth Neybert, their son, James, and two grandsons. We offer them our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1939