Peter Michael Dean ’41

Pete died Jan. 28, 2003, of cancer. A lifelong resident of Greenwich, Conn., he came to us from Choate. In college he majored in biology and was a member of Cap & Gown.

Pete won numerals on the freshman 150-lb. crew, rowed on the varsity 150-lb. crew all three years, and in his senior year was captain and winner of the W. Lyman Biddle Medal for good sportsmanship in rowing. He roomed with McNeill freshman year; sophomore year with M. C. Stevens; junior year with Stevens and S. D. Wright; and senior year with Stevens and Wainwright.

Pete attended the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and received his medical degree in 1945. He served in the Navy Medical Corps during WWII. He started his practice in Greenwich in 1950, but was interrupted for service in the Navy Medical Corps during the Korean War. He served as neurologist in the Portsmouth, Va., Naval Hospital until his discharge in 1954.

In the 1960s he formed the Greenwich Medical Group with three other physicians, retiring in 1987. He was on the teaching house staff at Greenwich Hospital and on the Yale faculty.

Predeceased by his wife, Virginia, whom he married in 1944, Pete is survived by his two daughters, Virginia Dean and Susan Gallagher, and two grandchildren.

The Class of 1941