Robert M. Ellsworth ’49

DR. BOB ELLSWORTH, a worldrenowned specialist in eye cancers, lost his valiant personal battle with cancer and passed away at Englewood (N.J.) Hospital Jan. 2, 1994.

Bob was born Feb. 6, 1928, and prepared at Wyoming (Penn.) Seminary. At Princeton, he majored in biology, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of the glee club and Charter Club.

He graduated from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and interned at St. Luke's Hospital in N.Y.C., where he met Grace Foster. Bob served two years as a surgeon in the First Armored Division of the army. He married Grace in 1955 and they had two children. She passed away in 1985.

Dr. Ellsworth was the world's leading authority on tumors of the eye, particularly retinoblastoma. He helped increase the cure rate for this cancer from 10% to over 90%. He practiced for many years at Columbia's Harkness Eye Institute, but moved to New York HospitalCornell Medical Center in 1979 to become a professor of ophthalmology, department vicechairman, and director of the ocular oncology center (now named in his honor).

Bob is survived by a son, Robert M. Jr. '80; and daughter, Laura '80; and his loving companion, Wenclie Daly. We extend to each of them our deepest sympathies, and share in their loss of this brilliant and caring physician and friend.

The Class of 1949