Warren D. Platt Jr. ’39

PROMINENT INTERNIST and rheumatologist Bud Platt died after a long illness Nov. 28, 1992, in Longmeadow, Mass., where he lived most of his life.

A 1943 graduate of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, he was one of the very first medical students to be accelerated, so the armed forces could have a quick supply of young physicians. He served as a naval doctor in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. Upon release, he took more graduate training at St. Luke's Hospital before settling in Springfield.

Early on, he and his first partner established a group medical practice, not common at the time, and gradually increased their group to eight partners. His legacy is that group, now 16 members strong and celebrating their 40th anniversary.

A member of the band and of Triangle Club, Bud continued to pursue music as a hobby, singing and playing in local music groups. An outdoorsman, he loved hunting and fishing at his family's camp in Bridgeton, Maine, and sailing the boat he kept at the Rhode Island shore.

Bud never married, but was close to his niece Susan Timperley and two nephews, David and Jeff Stein, to whom we offer our sincere sympathy.

The Class of l939