Leo Joshua Falk Jr. ’45

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Leo Falk died July 20, 2008. 

Leo entered Princeton from Boise (Idaho) High School and joined Elm Club. He was with us for a very short time and then enlisted in the Army Specialized Training Program at Yale, from which he graduated in 1947 and from which he received his medical degree in 1949. He then joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Virginia. 

Leo married Dr. Eugenia Etheridge of Macon, Ga., in 1947. He then joined the Department of State in Washington, D.C. 

Eugenia predeceased Leo. He is survived by his children, James and Terrell Falk, to whom the class expresses its sympathy.

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