Joseph Peter Zawadsky ’51

Joe was born Jan. 16, 1930, in South River, N.J., to John and Anna Kisler Zawadsky.

At Princeton he majored in biology, was active in Tiger Inn, and played varsity football as guard on our undefeated 1950 team. In 1952 he and Marilyn “Lynn” Mark married.

Joe earned a medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1955 and served as a captain in the Air Force from 1956 to 1958. He completed his residency at the New York Orthopedic Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in 1964. Joe performed the first hip replacement surgery in New Jersey and served as an orthopedic consultant and team doctor for Princeton and Rutgers. He was academic chair of the orthopedics department at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and chief of orthopedic surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital until his retirement in 1998.

Joe died June 25, 2016, in Princeton. He is survived by his wife, Lynn; their children, Carol Martinez, Joseph Jr., Mary Lynn Scotti, Mark ’81 and his wife Sarah ’81, Janet Margitan, and Jeffrey ’93; 15 grandchildren, including Jasper Arnold ’20; and Joe’s sister, Marley. His memorial service was held in the University Chapel.