Leonard Myrton Gaines ’49

Myrt Gaines died June 26, 2013, at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson, Md.

He came to Princeton from Andover and graduated as an English major and member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Cap and Gown and played varsity lacrosse, earning All-American honors for two out of three years. (The third year he was “only” named as honorable mention!) After Princeton, he played club lacrosse in Baltimore, and was named to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1984.

Myrt did his medical training at Johns Hopkins, and practiced all his life in Baltimore. In a profile he wrote in 2011, he described his career as “combining rheumatology and internal medicine in office, hospital, and home visits.” Active in the Gilchrist Hospice Care Foundation from its inception in 1990, Myrt served on its board for years, and spent his last days in its hospice care.

Myrt married Helen “Sandi” McFarland in 1952. She and their four children, Brandon, Julia, Heather, and David ’92, survive him, as do six grandchildren.

Space limits a longer listing of his many accomplishments, but the class offers both condolences and praise for a life well lived.