Arthur Max Figur ’52

Arthur Max Figur ’52, M.D., passed away on August 9, 2014, from heart complications. Art was born in Vienna, Austria, on February 14, 1931, and then came to live in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, attended Dartmouth for three years, transferred to New York University Medical School and graduated from there in 1955. He did not receive a degree from Dartmouth, but remained a loyal alumnus. He had a distinguished medical career with nearly six decades of service in New York City to the Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He had many accomplishments as an internist, hematologist and educator, holding key administrative posts as chief of outpatient hematology, president of the association of the attending staff, president of the medical board and medical director. In 1996 he received the prestigious Jacobi Medallion for his outstanding contributions to the institution. An avid, award-winning cyclist, swimmer and steadfast champion of health and physical fitness, he traveled the world in pursuit of greater athletic and cultural endeavors. Art and all of his children and grandchildren went white-water rafting in June 2014 in the Balkans (Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia).  Art’s wife, June, passed away in 1992. Art is survived by children Charles, Leny, Amy, MaryAnn and Margaret, eight grandchildren and his partner for the past two decades, Maria.