William Henry Lippitt ’39

Bill died Dec. 8, 2000, at Candler Hospital in Savannah, where he had practiced general surgery for 35 years before he retired in 1982. After earning his MD at Johns Hopkins, he became a fellow in surgery at Lahey Clinic in Boston. During WWII, Bill served in the Army Medical Corps and was a captain when he returned to private practice. Through the years he was a member of countless medical and surgical associations in Georgia and the southeast. In 1972 he was president of the Georgia chapter of the American College of Surgeons and the Georgia Medical Society and in 1982 was president of the Southern Society of Clinical Surgeons. He volunteered with Project Hope in 1973, carrying much needed medical assistance to Brazil. And he remembered, with special pleasure, helping host our 1977 class southern trip during their stay in Savannah.

Bill is survived by his wife, Nell McBride, and by five children of his first marriage, to Theodora Finney, who died in 1973. A stepdaughter, stepson, and 16 grandchildren also survive. To them all we offer our profound sympathy.

The Class of 1939