John Thurston Beaty ’39

Jack died Nov. 12, 1999, in Waynesville, N.C., where he had built a home in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1991 upon retiring from his solo medical practice in Greenwich, Conn. There, he had specialized in nutrition and preventive medicine for 43 years. He earned his medical degree at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1943. As a capt. in the medical corps, he spent two and a half years developing and organizing MASH units. He and Julia Corscaden were married in 1942 and had four children. They divorced in 1971. Jack had begun his career practicing internal medicine (conventional style as he later characterized it), but gradually became convinced of the great importance of nutrition and preventive medicine, now known as "alternative" or complementary medicine. He practiced this form of medicine until he retired. To the extent that he could, he fought the hostile resistance to the challenging new ideas of alternative medicine.

Jack is survived by his wife, Katy (Catherine Randall), whom he married in 1977, and by his daughter, three sons, one grandson, three stepchildren, five step-grandchildren, his sister, Nancy, and brothers Julian '38 and David '50. We offer them our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1939