Joseph E. Angelo ’54

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Joe died Sept. 28, 2015, after enduring the effects of a major heart attack in 2002 and a debilitating stroke in 2010.

Born in Ellwood City, Pa., he graduated from Lincoln High School. At Princeton, he majored in biology and was a member of Dial Lodge. Joe graduated from Yale Medical School in 1958 and completed his graduate education in obstetrics/gynecology at the University of Colorado Medical Center. He began private practice in Carmichael, Calif., at the American River Hospital and subsequently joined the Mercy San Juan Hospital when it opened in 1967.

Joe was a  member of numerous medical societies. His career spanned 44 years, and Joe delivered more than 2,000 babies before retiring in 1983. He spent the next two years working at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago, American Samoa. Joe was a compassionate physician and an excellent sailor, and once made a trip from Berkeley, Calif., to Hawaii.

The class extends condolences to Ann, his wife of 60 years; daughters Leslie and Lynn ’82; and his brothers, Rudy and Jerry. 

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