Richard E. Kobilak ’40

Our class lost a "true gentleman" on Apr. 21, 2000. Dick was born in Brooklyn, went to high school in Flushing, became an Eagle Scout, and was an early achiever in whatever he chose. At Princeton he majored in chemistry and premed, rowed with the varsity crew, and was a member of Tower Club. He graduated magna cum laude, having been elected to Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. Dick graduated from Cornell Medical School in 1943 and served in the Army Medical Corps during WWII. It was while he was interning at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco that he met and married Mary E. Schanz. Following his discharge, the couple returned to the Rochester, N.Y. area. For the next 40 years, Dick practiced as an urological surgeon, was an asst. professor in urological surgery at Strong Memorial, and chief of urology at Highland and Genesee Hospitals.

His wife, Mary, preceded him in death. To his daughters, Linda Barnard, Christine Klemperer, Deborah McLain, and Sandra Pykosz, and 13 grandchildren, his classmates offer their sincere condolences.

The Class of 1940