Stanton Segal ’48

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Stanton died April 16, 2007. He was a distinguished member of the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania for 41 years. He established the Division of Child Development, Rehabilitation, and Metabolic Disease there.

A native of Camden, N.J., and a graduate of its high school, Stan was a member of Elm, sang with the Glee Club, and was awarded the Howe Prize in analytical chemistry at Princeton. He graduated with highest honors in chemistry and went on to Harvard for his medical degree, which he received cum laude in 1952. He spent three years at the National Institutes of Health. He published many scientific papers.

Stan married Joan Meth in 1956. To Joan and their sons, Mark and Roy, the class expresses its profound condolences.

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