Thomas Berry Brazelton Jr. ’40

Berry died March 13, 2018, at his home in Barnstable, Mass., at the age of 99. Born in Waco, Texas, he came to us from Episcopal High School in Virginia. At Princeton he majored in chemistry. He was a member of Triangle, the Glee Club, the Choir, and the Undergraduate Council, and took his meals at Charter.

After Princeton Berry earned a medical degree at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and interned at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. After a year in the Navy he began a residency and child-psychiatry training at Mass General and Boston Children’s Hospital, among other places.

Berry began a long and distinguished career at Harvard Medical School and Brown University as professor and preeminent authority in child psychiatry. In 1995 Harvard established the T. Berry Brazelton Chair in Pediatrics; in 2002 Berry received the World of Children Award; and in 2013 President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Citizens Medal. His New York Times obituary described him as “America’s most celebrated baby doctor since Benjamin Spock.” Throughout the years he wrote nearly 40 books, hosted an Emmy-winning TV show, received 13 honorary degrees, and so much more.

His wife, Christina, predeceased him in 2015. He is survived by his daughters, Christina, Catherine, and Pauline; son Thomas III; and seven grandchildren.