Daniel Anzel ’55

Daniel Anzel ’55, a longtime resident of California, died on November 21, 2013. He came to Dartmouth from Blair Academy in New Jersey. He engaged in swimming and squash and was captain of the tennis team, winning the collegiate singles championships his senior year. At Dartmouth he majored in psychology, sociology and education. Fulfilling his dream of living in California, Dan was accepted into the graduate program at Stanford Business School in Palo Alto, where he received his M.B.A. He worked first in San Francisco in retail merchandising and then decided to enter the field of hospital management, earning a master’s and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA, respectively. He served as a hospital administrator in San Francisco, Santa Monica, California, and St. Louis, Missouri. In 1968 Dan was asked to join the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, as professor of health services and director of planning for two new hospitals on the medical campus. In 1982 the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center was opened, the first such center in the West, and in 1992 the USC Urus Hospital, a private faculty facility, was completed. He was awarded a medal of distinction from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association. Other awards included the Eli Joslin Center medal for advancing the care of Type 1 diabetes, which he had since 1955. He leaves his wife, Jan, three children and five grandchildren.