Louis Reik E. Md ’33

Louie died at the Medical Center in Princeton on Mar. 26, 1996. He was 89.

When he came to college he lived in Lansdale, Pa., and he prepared at Mount Hermon. After graduation from Princeton he attended the U. of Pennsylvania medical school, where he received his MD in 1938. He served in the Army Medical Corps during WWII and was overseas for four years; he retired as a major.

In 1946 Louie went to Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., to serve a residency in psychiatry. In 1951 he qualified as a diplomate of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry and assumed the position of director of psychiatry at the university's McCosh Infirmary. He retired in 1971, having helped the university deal with the turbulent decade of the 1960s. He published several articles in paw during the 1960s as well as in other journals of psychiatry.

In recent years, Louie took part in various class activities, and he and his wife, Naomi, a gifted pianist, made a real contribution on numerous occasions.

Louie's first wife, Beatrice Shinn, an architect, died in 1971. He is survived by his second wife, Naomi Jury Chandler, and by two sisters, Mrs. John McCloy and Mrs. Edward Stewart.

The Class of 1933