Classes & Obits

Gene H. Stollerman ’41

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Nov - Dec 2014

Gene H. Stollerman ’41, M.D., passed away on August 1, 2014, at his Hanover home surrounded by family after an extended illness with heart failure. At Dartmouth he was active in Canoe Club, Dartmouth Outing Club and Junto. His career spanned much of the 20th century. He earned his M.D. from Columbia University, served as captain in the Army Medical Corps and then was chief resident in medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He then became director of NYU’s Irvington House for Children with Heart Disease, receiving national recognition for his research on the use of penicillin for the prevention of rheumatic fever, which led to an endowed professorship at Northwestern University for research in rheumatic, immunologic and infectious diseases. Other appointments included chair of the department of medicine at the University of Tennessee, a professorship at Boston University Medical Center and as distinguished physician of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, from which he retired in 1995 to return to Hanover. He earned the Bruce Medal for Preventive Medicine from the American College of Physicians, the Thulis Award from the American Geriatrics and the Bicentennial Medal in Internal Medicine from Columbia University. He served his class on the reunion committee and as scholarship fund chair and had been class secretary since 2009. He is survived by his children John (and wife Rhonda) and Anne (and husband John), several grandchildren, nieces and nephews; and stepchildren and their families. He was predeceased by his first wife, Corynne, his second wife, Vita, daughter Lee and sisters Ricca and Enid.

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