Richard G. Gould ’38

Dick died Oct. 12, 2004, at his home in Williston, Vt.

He prepared at Gorton High School, and at Princeton majored in biology, received departmental honors, and was awarded the Compton Memorial Scholarship. He earned numerals in freshman tennis and was on the varsity squad. Dick was also a member of Tower Club and roomed senior year with Charley Reed.

After graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, he specialized in head and neck surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. During World War II he was an Army captain, serving in Germany. Postwar, he contracted tuberculosis and was hospitalized at Saranac Lake. After recuperating, he worked there and then went into private practice in Newburgh, N.Y.

In 1974, Dick moved south, first to work at St. Joseph's Hospital in Savannah, Ga., then to the Medical Care Center at Hilton Head [S.C.] Hospital as medical director. Upon his retirement in 1999, he moved to Williston.

Dick is survived by his wife, Sigrid; daughters Sandra Moore, Betsy Courtenanche, and Patricia MacHarg; and eight grandchildren. The class extends its condolences to all of Dick's family.

The Class of 1938