John Carlyle Scott ’56

"On top of technology in old-fashioned practice." That's how the obituary headline in the Seattle Times referred to our physician classmate John Scott, who died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on Dec. 19, 2000. John came to Princeton from Minneapolis, majored in biology, and joined Campus Club.

John received his MD from the U. of Minnesota, did his residency in ob/gyn at Marquette U., and spent 1965 in further training at Harvard. He taught at the Medical College of Wisconsin for two years and then went on to Seattle and a distinguished 31-year career in private practice (mostly solo) as a diagnostician and surgeon, specializing in cancer of the reproductive system. A member of many medical societies, John was founder of the Tumor Board at the former Doctor's Hospital in Seattle, served on the faculty of the U. of Washington, and as president of the U.S. section of the Intl. College of Surgeons.

According to his wife, Paola, John viewed his campus years as among the best of his life, and always thought of his Princeton friends and classmates with great fondness. In addition to Paola, he is survived by his children, Suzanne Boleyn and David, his stepchildren, Danielle Leanza and Jeff Tillman, his sister, Marny Fraser, and three grandchildren, Vaile, Patrick, and Paul. The class extends its sympathy to all who mourn his passing.

The Class of 1956