John J.K. Tan ’57

Rated five-star by his patients, Joon died June 2, 2025, in Clifton, N.J.

A native of Singapore, he came to Princeton from St. Joseph’s Institute. He roomed with Win Munro, but left after a few weeks, when, as Win said, he thought “he had made a mistake in coming to Princeton.” Later Joon anglicized his name to John and graduated from Albert Einstein School of Medicine at Yeshiva University.

After serving his residency at Rutgers Health/New Jersey School of Medicine and time as a resident and intern at Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Hospital, John became a noted ear-nose-throat otolaryngologist in Montclair, N.J. He kept in touch with Princeton, giving brief biographical information in many of our Reunions yearbooks.

He married Janet after our 45th reunion and had one child, Allison, both of whom survive him.