Marshall T. Morgan ’63

Marsh, a professor and chief of emergency medicine at UCLA, died April 16, 2015, in Los Angeles after being ill for several months. Praised by patients and colleagues alike for his calming manner and gentle touch, he was credited with saving many lives and mentoring a host of emergency-room physicians.

“Despite working most of his career in tertiary medical centers,” said his dean, Dr. John Mazziotta, “Dr. Morgan always had a bit of the country GP in him, putting patients first and technology second.” Daughter Courtney Morgan-Greene told a newspaper that “I think of him in terms of a physician for everyone. He didn’t distinguish between the homeless and the A-list.”

A native of Okeana, Ohio, Marsh was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and roomed with Charlie Mitchell. He belonged to Whig-Clio and the Glee Club and ate at Campus. French literature studies led him to a postgraduate year at the Sorbonne in Paris before medical school at Chicago. Marsh entered emergency medicine at UCLA in 1974.

Survivors include his wife, Jean Marie Campbell-Morgan; children, Marshall T. Morgan Jr., Shirl Monique Van Der Plas, Terrence Watson, John Watson, and Courtney; sisters Jennifer Sue Morgan and Elizabeth Jane Morgan La Frenz; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.