Leonard William “Bill” Katz ’60
Leonard William “Bill” Katz ’60 died unexpectedly on July 11, 2019, while playing golf with his wife, Betsy, in Sedona, Arizona. A graduate of Hewlett (New York) High School, Bill followed his father, Mel ’33, to Dartmouth, and was social chairman and vice president of Gamma Delta Chi and a member of the DOC and ski patrol. Graduating with a major in sociology, he then earned an M.B.A. from Tuck School. Bill and Betsy met his first year at Tuck and were married in 1962, right after Betsy’s Mount Holyoke graduation. Enlisting in the U.S. Army intelligence service, Bill served four years as an officer in the medical field service at Walter Reed Medical Center. He received a D.B.A. in healthcare administration and finance from George Washington University in 1971. For the next 20 years he was a healthcare management consultant with major accounting firms in New York, Chicago, and Boston before opening his own firm in 1991. He was on the front line assisting doctors’ practices with new Medicare laws and helping them navigate insurance contracts. During this time, he taught graduate course in hospital finance and ethics at Boston University and UMass Amherst. Bill and Betsy retired in 2006 to Gilbert, Arizona, where they took up golf and enjoyed traveling the world. Bill leaves Betsy, his wife of 57 years, son Stephen, daughter Debra, five grandchildren, and three step-grandchildren.
