Albert Frank Petrone ’55

Albert Frank Petrone ’55 died on August 10, 2010, in his longtime home state of Colorado. Al attended Cathedral High School in Denver before matriculating at Dartmouth. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and the Newman Club and majored in zoology. After graduation Al entered the University of Colorado Medical School and served a urological residency at Michigan. He returned to Colorado and went into private practice, serving also as an attending at Colorado School of Medicine until 1978. He then moved to Macomb, Illinois, where he continued private practice in urology until retiring in 1990. In 1994 he and his wife moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, ostensibly for warm weather and golf, but privately he told friends it was for the horse racing. Albert was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and was particularly interested in Renaissance philosophy and took graduate courses to further his education while in Illinois. Sometime after the 50th reunion he returned to Colorado. Survivors include his wife, Carole, and three children. Son Mark predeceased his father.