William V. Healey Jr. ’52

A noted surgeon, Bill graduated from the Loyola School in New York City and majored in biology at Princeton. He was a member of Tower, fencing team captain, and president of the Catholic Club and of the Pre-Med Society. Bill roomed with Ed Caddy and Jim Rockwell.

He earned a medical degree from Columbia and then served in the Navy. Bill returned to serve on the staff at Roosevelt Hospital in New York, as well as at the Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital in the town where he lived with his then-wife, now Mrs. Reginald Roome Jr. He was later married to Celia Ann Powell.

A high achiever in every venue he entered, Bill received many honors and awards in professional medical associations and in private organizations. He was published in medical journals and recently had published a novel, Osprey. His children are William V. III ’80, David ’81, Hilary ’87, Peter, and Michael.

Bill died April 30, 2015, ending a life lived fully and with benefit to numbers of others whose lives he touched. The class’s condolences go to his family.