Fred Plum ’45

Fred Plum ’45, M.D., died June 11 in New York City. He came to Dartmouth from Margate, New Jersey, and Atlantic City High School. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He was in the Army until 1945 and returned to Dartmouth in V-12 for medical training. He went on to Cornell Medical School, followed by two years in the Navy, including six months at sea on a destroyer escort in the Caribbean. In 1953 he joined the faculty of the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle. In 1963 he was offered an endowed chair at Cornell University Medical School as a professor and department chairman of neurology. For the next 35 years he took great pride in his graduates, who provided the foundation of the neurology department in many medical schools. He was an expert on the states of consciousness and coma and was the co-author of many books and articles on the subject. He is survived by his wife, Susan, and children Michael, Christopher and Carol, the children of his first wife, Jean, who predeceased him. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a teacher, a healer and a lover of art and music.