Stuart L. Keill ’48

A native of Binghamton, N.Y., and a gifted psychiatrist, Stuart died March 25, 2012.

He was a graduate of Ovid Central, a small rural high school. Of his first year at Princeton, Stuart said, “I met and came to love Bach and Shakespeare, joined the famous University choir and the band, had my 17th birthday, and grew 11 inches.” He was a member of Court and graduated in 1947. In 1948 he received a master’s degree from Cornell with a thesis on conditioned response in lobotomized sheep and goats.

In 1950 he courted and married Joanne Veness, whose salary as a social worker was a big support towards Stuart’s medical degree from Temple in 1952. His residency in psychiatry was at Columbia University. He became a faculty member at Columbia, SUNY, and the University of Maryland with a particular interest in public mental-health programs. More recently he was at NYU, teaching forensic psychiatry and health-services administration. He also ran a diagnostic and treatment program for “patients who have committed crimes varying from jumping subway turnstiles to multiple murders.”

Stuart was a loyal Princetonian. He is survived by Joanne and their four children, Elinor, Patricia, Brian, and Victoria.