Sherwood Vine ’42

Sherwood Vine died Dec. 11, 2009.

Sherwood was a graduate of Trenton (N.J.) High School. At Princeton he was a member of Dial Lodge, majored in biology, and graduated with honors. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University and enrolled in the Army Air Corps as a physician. He was assigned to Scott Field in Illinois. He was separated as a captain in 1948.

Returning to Trenton, Sherwood practiced internal medicine and gastroenterology. He was the medical director of Greenwood House in Ewing, N.J., and St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton. Sherwood served a term as president of the New Jersey Medical Society and taught at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.  

Sherwood played the cello and piano and participated in chamber-music quartets and orchestras. His optimism and sunny disposition contributed to his success as a physician and community member. In all of this he was supported by his wife of 56 years, Myra Grossweiner Vine. To her and their children, John ’86, Jennifer Dutrow, and Suzanne Vine, the class extends condolences.