Ralph Ulyate Whipple ’34

Whip, who wrote a classmate not long ago, "The thread holding me to Terra Firma is getting mighty thin," died June 8, 2002, six days before his 90th birthday.

Retired in 1974 from the practice of urology in Manhasset, N.Y., he moved to Norwalk, Conn., in 1994, where he and his wife, Joan (Hopkins), whom he married in 1948, lived in "a nice waterfront condo."

Whip was a member of the American Board of Urology, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American and New York Urological Assns., a founding member of the Nassau County Academy of Medicine, and president of the medical board of the Manhasset Medical Center.

But Whip's "first love," as he wrote, "was boating." In his case that meant predicted-log racing, in which he won many a prize in waters from Staten Island to Long Island Sound.

Whip is survived by three daughters, two sons, and eight grandchildren, besides Joan, to all of whom we offer sincere condolences.

The Class of 1934