Jeffrey A. Bourne ’68

Jeff died March 17, 2023, in San Francisco of complications associated with chemotherapy treatment for cancer.

Jeff came to campus from W.C. Mepham High School in Bellmore, N.Y., where he was captain of the basketball and tennis teams and sports editor of the school newspaper. At Princeton, he was active in the Orange Key Society, freshman basketball, and the Pre-Med Society and volunteered at Trenton State Hospital, while majoring in biology. He ate at Cottage Club and lived at 504 1903 with Gerry Lyman his senior year.

After graduation, Jeff earned a medical degree from St. Louis University and, later in life, an MPA from the University of San Francisco. He spent much of his career as a private pediatrician in San Francisco, New York City, and New Jersey while squeezing in stints as a medical director at three institutions, chief of pediatrics at a New York hospital, and chief executive of a health-care organization. Up to his death, he was still practicing in San Francisco. In his rare spare time, he was active in humanitarian medical missions, liberal causes, reading, travel, and woodworking. He was also a prodigious contributor to class and University alumni affairs, having been our chairman for a number of years.

Jeff was predeceased by his wife of 28 years, Mickey. The class extends its deepest sympathies to his partner, Paty; his children, Sari and her husband Matt, Josh, and Danny; grandchildren Mackenzie and Maya; and his sister, Rabbi Mikki Bourne and her husband Dave.