Michael R. Zales ’59

Mike Zales, an exuberant son of Princeton, died May 4, 2000, at home in Tucson of heart disease.

Born in NYC and raised in Stamford, Conn., Mike graduated from St. Luke's School in New Canaan. At Princeton he double-majored in religion and European literature and belonged to Court Club, Whig-Clio, and the Pre-Medical Society.

Mike graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1964, served as a squadron medical officer in the Navy, and practiced psychiatry in Greenwich, where he was chair of the psychology department at Greenwich Hospital, president of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and the Benjamin Rush Society, and chair of the publications committee of the American College of Psychology.

Prior to defecting to the Arizona desert in 1987, he taught for many years at Yale and the Hebrew Union College and occasionally at Dartmouth during the summer months, when the family resided in nearby Quechee, Vt. During his 13 years in Tucson, he taught at the U. of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Tucson Medical Center and was active in the Jewish community.

Michael is survived by his wife, Ruth, his daughter, Melissa Koller '85, his son, Samuel, and three granddaughters. The class extends its heartfelt condolences to all.

The Class of 1959