Lee D. Brauer ’59

A charter member of Wilson Lodge, as its senior-year president Lee oversaw its nascent growth to 58 members and its plans for expansion into Madison dining hall. Lee also served as secretary of the Hillel Foundation, played in the University Band, and on his violin played in the Triangle and Savoyard Orchestras. As a fledgling pilot he was treasurer of the flying club. A physics major, he roomed with Avron Maletsky, Frank Peluso, Neil Shore, and Howard Silber.

Studies at the University of Maryland Medical School followed Princeton graduation. While there his lab partner “kept interposing herself between [Lee] and the cadaver and since she was intrinsically more interesting” he married her. Both Lee and Rima, his former lab partner and then his wife, completed their residencies at Yale, and following Lee’s completion of his military obligation as a surgeon with the U.S. Public Health Service, both pursued lifetime careers in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. When not treating patients, Lee played violin with the Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra, skied at Stowe, and sailed and raced on Long Island Sound.

Lee was predeceased by his wife, Rima, in 2015. Lee died Aug. 19, 2024. He is survived by children Samuel, Nathan, and Jennifer, and his fiancée, Anne Hamilton.