Lawrence Richardson Wharton Jr. ’45

Larry Wharton died Dec. 4, 2003.

Larry prepared at the Gilman School, and at Princeton joined Colonial Club, and played on the varsity football team and the wrestling squad. He left Princeton to serve as a medical student in the Army Specialized Training Program and received his degree from Johns Hopkins U. in 1947. He took up a residency practice in gynecology and taught at Johns Hopkins Medical School.

The same year he received his degree, he married the former Alison DeRopp. Larry and Alie, in addition to raising three children, were never without Labrador retrievers, as Larry pointed out in his submission to the 50th yearbook. He and Alie spent all their married life in the same gracious home in Ruxton, Md.

In addition to Alie, Larry is survived by his son, Lawrence Wharton III; daughters Louise Pistell '78 and Margaret Noonan; and two grandchildren. The class extends its sympathy to all the family.

The Class of 1945