William Kornfeld ’50

Bill died July 14, 2015, in Louisville, from a post-surgery heart attack.

He came to Princeton from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, N.Y. At Princeton he was classical music director of WPRU and a member of Terrace. Bill played on championship interclub softball, ping-pong, and billiards teams. After graduating with honors in philosophy, he entered Harvard Medical School, where he received his degree in 1954.

Following an internship in New York and residency in Boston, Bill served briefly in the Army before setting up a practice in Brookline, Mass. Along with his private practice, he worked for a national corporation that built in-patient hospital units. In 1992, he was “lured to the mid-South” and relocated in Bowling Green, Ky., where he continued to practice psychiatry until 2012. When asked about practicing into his 80s, he told his son Daniel that it was easy, since “all I had to do was listen.”

A lifelong devotee of the arts, Bill and his wife, Gloria, were especially fond of chamber music and regularly attended performances in Nashville and Boston.

We extend our sympathy to Gloria; sons Daniel and Erik; and his grandson.