Richard M. French ’46
Dick died June 17, 2003, at home in Versailles, Ky.
He came to Princeton in 1942 after graduating from Mount Sterling [Ky.] High to major in biology as a premedical student. After six months in Army training, he entered Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, earning a medical degree in 1948. After internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, he completed residency at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, then moved to Lexington, Ky., to begin a long career as an internist. He became medical director at Kentucky Veterans Center in 1993.
Dick played varsity football and JV basketball at Princeton. He first was married to Patsy Carran for about 20 years, then married Sara Houston in 1976. She survives him as do his two sons by his first marriage, Daniel and William P. French; stepsons John and James Frazier; and stepdaughter Jane Nunnelly. The class extends its sympathy to them.
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