Robert Denman Thompson Jr. ’58

Denny died peacefully April 29, 2013, in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

He came to Princeton from Buchtel High School in Akron, Ohio. At Princeton he was a premed student majoring in chemistry, and a member of Elm Club, Orange Key, and the Campus Fund Drive. His senior-year roommates were Hal Dvorak and Mike Love.

After Princeton, Denny earned his medical degree from Columbia and completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine and nephrology at University Hospitals of Cleveland.

He devoted five decades of his professional life to caring for the medical needs of others: as an attending physician at University Hospitals of Cleveland, where he co-founded an end-stage renal program; as a clinical professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; and in his private practice of internal medicine and nephrology in the Cleveland area.

For more than 40 years, he was on the board of trustees of the Centers for Dialysis Care, where he was a founding member in 1972 and served as chairman from 2004 to 2006. He also was president of the Northern Ohio Alumni Association of Princeton from 2007 to 2011.

To Carolyn, Denny’s wife of almost 50 years; his daughter, Jennie ‘90; and his two grandchildren, the class extends sincerest condolences.