Mark A. Whitman ’45

Bud grew up in Philadelphia and attended Penn Charter School. At Princeton he played freshman soccer and track. He received the Keene Fitzpatrick Medal and was a member of Tower Club.

During World War II he was a medical student in the Army Specialized Training Program. He graduated cum laude in biology and earned a medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He took a one-year rotating internship, followed by a two-year residency in pediatrics at Hahnemann. While awaiting a call into the service he had a fellowship under the American Academy of Pediatrics at the Montgomery and Phoenixville hospitals in Pennsylvania.

Bud was in the Army Medical Corps until 1954, obtaining the rank of captain. He attended the Medical Field Service School, was assigned to Camp Stoneman, and went to Sasebo and Kumamoto, both in Kyushu, Japan.

After the war he taught pediatrics at Hahnemann and went into private practice. He was on staff at Chestnut Hill and Germantown hospitals, and chief of service at the latter. He was a member of the Philadelphia Pediatric Society, serving as a board of directors member and treasurer. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association.

Bud published numerous articles on pediatrics in medical journals. He died Dec. 28, 2018, and is survived by his son, Christopher.