Joseph Rosenbaum ’49

An eminent Los Angeles physician, Joe Rosenbaum died there Aug. 27, 1997.

Born in NYC Oct. 30, 1928, Joe attended Stuyvesant H.S. At Princeton he majored in biology and joined Whig-Clio. He did graduate work at the U. of Pennsylvania and Long Island College of Medicine and earned his MD from the State U. Medical Center at the New York City College of Medicine. He spent a year interning at the Chicago Clinics, served two years as a medical officer in the Air Force, and trained in surgery at the Boston City Hospital.

Devoted to his surgical career, he was one of the founders of the hospital which has become Columbia West Hills Medical Center in West Hills, Calif., where he was in private practice as a general surgeon for 38 years. He also was an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the U. of California, Los Angeles. Joe was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, a member of the Los Angeles Surgical Society, and past president of the San Fernando Surgical Society.

Joe is survived by June, his beloved wife of 40 years, and his four children, Ellen McCance '81, Paul,nJudith Davis, and Leslie Moody, as well as four grandchildren. To all of them we extend our deepest sympathy.