T. Brannon Hubbard Jr. ’38

WE ARE SADDENED by the loss of our good friend and classmate Brannon Hubbard, who succumbed to cancer Nov. 1, 1989 after a long battle, during which his fighting spirit never left him.

Bo came to Princeton from Kent School, after a boyhood in Alabama. He was pre-med, a swimmer, and member of Charter Club. He earned his M.D. at the College of Physicians of Columbia Univ. He spent four years in the U.S. Army performing surgery in the European Theater with the Normandy invasion, and later at Walter Reed Hospital. In 1952 he earned his Ph.D. in surgery at the Univ. of Minnesota Medical School, studying under Owen Wangestein, for whom he acted as chief surgical resident. Then he practiced with his father in Montgomery, Ala., until 1965 and had the honor of being accepted into the Southern Surgical Assn. He then became professor of surgery at the Univ. of Maryland and chief of surgery at Mercy Hospital, Baltimore, filling these posts until his retirement in 1983. He was highly respected in his field.

After he moved to Baltimore, he was able to attend Class functions and classmates could again appreciate his friendliness, good humor, and complete lack of self-consciousness. He enjoyed golf and fishing, his work, family, and friends.

He leaves behind his widow, Berry; four children, Virginia, of Taos, N.M.; T. Brannon III, of Chapel Hill, N.C.; Callie Sinkinson of Akron, Ohio; and Fraser of Alexandria, Va., and ten grandchildren. We shall miss him greatly.

The Class of 1938