Rodger E. MacQuigg ’35

RODGER E. MACQUIGG died at the age of 79 in Albuquerque Feb. 3, 1993. Rodger was a prominent surgeon, and a pioneer of thoracic and cardiac surgery in New Mexico. He joined the worldfamous Lovelace Clinic in 1948 and headed its thoracic surgery department until his retirement in 1975.

He was born Dec. 12, 1913, in State College, Penn. After graduation from Princeton, he received his medical degree from the Ohio State Univ. College of Medicine. He served his surgical residency at Columbia Presbyterian Center in NYC, and his thoracic surgery residency at the Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor. While a surgical resident at Columbia Presbyterian, he conceived the idea of the now widely used Heparin Loca small needle remaining in a patient so anticoagulant medication can be administered without a full intravenous hookup.

At Princeton, Rodger roomed four years with classmate Thomas D. Flynn. Rodger had a strong interest in guns and cameras. He was president of the Princeton Gun Club and a lifelong member of the N.R.A.

Elizabeth Schill, his wife of 48 years, is in good health and lives at their home in Albuquerque. They have three sons, David, James, and Charles.

The Class of 1935