Seth Harvey ’55

Seth Harvey was born June 30, 1933, in New York City to Katherine Davis and Harold Dortic Harvey. After preparing at Pomfret, he earned a bachelor’s degree in history at Princeton and a medical degree from Columbia. He had his surgical residency at Virginia Commonwealth University.

While serving in the Army Medical Corps in Germany, Seth was recognized for “sustained meritorious service” and for “his capacity for dealing with the patient as an individual rather than a medical case.” From 1967 to 1987 he was general surgeon at Falmouth (Mass.) Hospital and chief of surgery and the medical staff. Before retiring in 2001 he practiced general medicine at Barnstable County (Mass.) Hospital and Bourne Health Clinic, and volunteered his medical services to Penikese Island School, Cape Cares, and Falmouth Pop Warner Football.

His passion for fishing made him a world traveler, visiting New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Labrador, Canada; Russia; Iceland; Chile; and Mongolia. Seth was a founding member of the Cape Cod Curling Club and a member of the Tabusintac Club and the Woods Hole Golf Club.

He died Sept. 5, 2012, after a yearlong illness from a rare cancer. To his daughter, Katherine; and sons Samuel, Jacob, and Thomas, the class extends sympathy.