Morton E. Kramer ’61

Mort, also known as Mark, died Nov. 2, 2013, in New York City after a long illness.

Born in Boston and raised in Eastport, Maine, he came to us from Hebron Academy. At Princeton he majored in the humanities and was a member of Campus Club and Orange Key. He studied at Harvard for a short period to become a guidance counselor and teacher. After a year, at age 26, he entered medical school at Barnes Medical Center in St. Louis, completing his training at Tufts University. After an internship in pediatrics at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, he briefly employed his skill in general medicine.

Mort married Gittie Kushner, and they did healing together at his Heart Song Healing Center in Los Gatos, Calif., for many years. They were divorced in 1982. Mort continued his career as a psychotherapist in Chappaqua and Port Chester, N.Y., until his terminal illness. As physician and psychotherapist, he brought an innovative, mind-probing spiritual dimension into his practice.

He has no known survivors. We appreciate the help of his friend and colleague, Dr. Barry Savits ’55, in preparing this memorial.