William Howard Wainwright ’45

Bill died July 12, 2005.

He entered Princeton from the Browning School and spent his first year off campus at 24 Dickinson St. He joined Terrace Club and was a member of Theatre Intime.

After service in the Army Specialized Training Program, he earned a medical degree from Chicago in 1949. He served as a flight surgeon in Korea and returned home to Cornell University's Payne Whitney Clinic in New York as a full-time teacher of psychiatry. He served for many years as head of the emergency psychiatric services at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He was elected a fellow of the Psychiatric Association.

Bill, who never married, pursued many different interests, centering on music and New York theater. He remained in New York until his death. Bill left no survivors known to the class.

The Class of 1945