Barry Sherwood Shultz ’64

Barry Sherwood Shultz ’64, M.D., of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, died April 12, 2010, in New London, New Hampshire. He grew up in West Lawn, Pennsylvania, and attended Wilson High School, where he participated in student government and the football and track teams and graduated cum laude. He followed the path to Dartmouth that his father, Milton ’30, blazed. Barry majored in anthropology while completing premed requirements. He was an active member of the DOC, Green Key and the German Club. He is remembered as having a great sense of humor, a positive attitude and great focus on medical school. After Dartmouth Barry attended the State University of New York-Buffalo, where he received his M.D. After completing an internship back home in Reading, Pennsylvania, Barry joined the Navy, where he served as a physician for three years. Subsequently he completed a residency in urology at the University of Connecticut Hospital. He practiced for 31 years in Reading. Barry is survived by his wife, Linda, a nurse he met in medical school; children Jason, Jonathan and Jennifer, Adv’98; and five grandchildren. Barry was very dedicated to his patients and a beloved father, and still had time to serve the Boy Scouts as den leader for the Cub Scouts, council commissioner and member of the council executive board. For an expanded obituary, go here.

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