Samuel Biern Jr. ’41

SAM BIERN died Jan. 5, 1992, of coronary arrest, following surgery at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., where he had been chief of medicine for five years. He founded its free diabetes clinic there in 1960. Sam's education was of a caliber befitting the man: Philips Academy in Andover, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins Medical College. At Princeton he roomed with Ted Fuller and Hugh Tomb, joined Terrace Club, rowed crew, and sang in the choir. In WWII he served with the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Corps in Africa and 1taly, returning to the city of his birth to practice international medicine. He married Ann Boisseau Akers in 1949.

Sam was first and foremost a dedicated sevenday-a-week doctor. His devotion to his family, his profession and Trinity Episcopal Church, where he sang in the choir for 40 years, somehow left him time and energy for a roster of community service organizations too long to list here.

In addition to Ann, Sam is survived by a son Charles; two daughters, Ann Piorun and Janis Bark; and two grandchildren. To all of them we extend our deepest sympathy.

The Class of 1941