Spencer E. Sherman ’58

Spence died July 27, 2024, in New York City. He was 88.

He came to Princeton from Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, N.J., where he was active in basketball, tennis, and student government. At Princeton, Spence was a member of Orange Key, Terrace Club, and a cartoonist for the Tiger.

After graduation, Spence earned a medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1961. he married Susan Ann Rosenbluth. From 1963 to 1965, Spence served as captain in the Army Medical Corps. He practiced medicine in New York for more than 53 years as an ophthalmologist and eye surgeon. In 1970, he was named chief of the eye department of the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York and a consulting ophthalmologist for the United Nations. He was a founder of the Museum of the Eye in San Francisco, of which the holdings include the Spencer E. Sherman, MD, Antique Ophthalmology Book Collection.

Spence served as a guest lecturer at many leading medical institutions around the world and published textbooks and scientific articles in numerous journals. For his service to ophthalmology, he received the Honor Award and the Service Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Spence is survived by his wife, two daughters, and five grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to them all.