William J. Fewell ’46

Bill died Mar. 20, 2001, in Philadelphia, where he was born. After Kent School he entered Princeton but left a year later to serve in the Navy until May 1946 and graduated a biology major in Feb. 1948. He earned an MD at Virginia Medical School and, after internship at Philadelphia General Hospital, became a medical professor at Temple U. Health Sciences Center, a career he brilliantly pursued until retirement in 1993. His colleagues and students recognized him with the "Golden Apple Award" for outstanding medical teaching.

In 1951 he married Betty Luck of Richmond, Va., and they had a son, Garrison, and a daughter, Page, who survive, along with five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. To them all the class extends condolences on the loss of a talented and loyal classmate.

The Class of 1946