Lorraine Dudley Stanfield ’83

Lorraine died Sept. 13, 2017, of breast cancer.

Lorraine came to Princeton from Sudbury, Mass. At Princeton, she was pre-med, majoring in biochemistry, and was a gifted alto with the Katzenjammers. She sang with the Triangle Club in her junior year, where she spent increasing time with Triangle trumpeter (and future husband) Burns Stanfield ’82.

After Princeton, she attended Harvard Medical School, first taking a year to work at the Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon and to help develop a new curriculum for Harvard Medical School. In 1991, after completing a residency in Providence, she began her 26-year career as a primary-care physician at Dorchester House, a community-health center. Lorraine brought her soulful alto to the choir of Fourth Presbyterian Church in South Boston, where Burns continues to pastor (their work was profiled in the April 9, 2003, issue of PAW).

Lorraine was also a faculty member of the Boston University School of Medicine. In 2013 she received the Educator of the Year Award in preclinical sciences as well as the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. In 2015, she received Boston University School of Medicine’s highest teaching honor, the Robbins Award for Excellence.

Lorraine was devoted to her patients, most of whom came from challenging circumstances. She delighted in teaching young doctors, she loved to sing, and she adored her family. And she infused it all with humor, grace, and sweet kindness. Sympathies from the class go to Burns; children Liz, Nathan, and Grace; her mother, Ruth Dudley; and sisters Susan and Jeanne.