Morgan Cutts ’27

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Morgan Cutts died July 3, 1996, at his home at 229 Medway Pl., Providence, RI 02906.

Morgan came to Princeton from Groton. At Princeton, he was a member of the undefeated varsity soccer team, the varsity swimming squad, and was v.p. of Court Club. He roomed with John VanDuyn.

On leaving Princeton, he graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1931 with an MD and honors. He settled in Providence, serving with various hospitals there as a specialist in internal medicine, publishing articles on drugs and the treatment of pneumonia and meningitis in medical publications such as the Journal of American Medicine and the New England Journal of Medicine. He was secretary of the Rhode Island Medical Society. While in Providence, he treated three presidents of Brown U.

During WWII, he was in the Army medical corps as a major in the S.W. Pacific theater. At the end of the war, he became interested in collecting butterflies in New Guinea. He married his first wife, Dr. Katherine Knox, in 1934, and by her had three sons, Gordon, David, and Jonathan, and one daughter, Harlan Billings. Katherine died in 1987. He married Suzanne Cornwell in 1989. She survives him along with his children and numerous grandchildren. To them, the class extends its deep sympathy.

The Class of 1927

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