Jeffrey Kenneth Kanefield ’82

JEFF WAS FOUND dead May 10, 1990, in his room in Sacramento, apparently of an accidental drug overdose. At the time of his death he had nearly completed a residency in anesthesiology at U.C.-Davis.

Born June 22, 1961, and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Jeff attended Cheltenham High School. At Princeton he achieved campus fame with a startling variety of musical accomplishments. He devoted much of his four years to die Princeton Univ. Band, as trombonist, student conductor and finally sheik/conductor. A gifted pianist, he performed with the touring Triangle company and with the jazz group Time and a Half; he also sang with the Offbeats and hosted an occasional rock 'n' roll slot on WPRB. For his senior thesis in the music dept., Jeff arranged the score for the 1982 Triangle show STOCKS AND BONDAGE, including his own compositions "He's Got the Key" and "Acquisition and Merger." As a respite from all this, Jeff also elected to pursue premedical studies, culminating in his graduation in1986 from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

Jeff is survived by his parents, Marvin and Isobel Kanefield, and by his two sisters, Susan and Karen. To them, as to Jeff's many friends and admirers, we express our condolences and our sense of loss.