Walter E. Dandy Jr. ’47

Walter died July 11, 2013 at the Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville, Md. Because of his declining health, he had lived at Broadmead for the last two years.

After graduating from Gilman School, Walter entered Princeton, but after a year was admitted to John Hopkins School of Medicine, from which he earned a medical degree in 1948. For the next two years, Walter was a general-surgery resident at Duke University. In 1950 he began a two-year residency in anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Walter was an anesthesiologist at John Hopkins Hospital from 1952 to 1953. In 1953 he was drafted into the Army, where he became chief of anesthesia for operating rooms at Fort Campbell, Ky., and at an Army hospital in Germany. Walter was discharged as a captain. After his service he began a lifelong association with Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, where he developed an intensive-care unit and served as its medical director until his retirement in 1985.

After retirement he moved to a Monkton (Md.) farm named Sylvian Fissure, where he indulged his passion for growing camellias. He also was a docent at the Walters Art Museum for 20 years.

In addition to Anne, his wife of 65 years, Walter is survived by two sons, two daughters, three sisters, and seven grandchildren.