Robert McCue Hall ’39

Robert McCue Hall ’39, M.D., died January 28 in Raleigh, North Carolina. At Dartmouth he majored in chemistry-zoology and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and Zeta Alpha Phi scientific fraternity. Bob earned his M.D. at Harvard Medical School and later master’s degrees in public health from the University of North Carolina and health care administration from Baylor University. In World War II and the Korean War he served in the famed 2nd Infantry Division, first as a battalion surgeon and eventually as division surgeon. After Korea Bob remained in the Army and established a distinguished career as chief medical staff officer of such high-level commands as the Army’s Airborne Corps, the Continental Army Command, the Cuban Missile Crisis potential invasion force and, in 1968, the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam. He also served as commander of the Army’s medical training center at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Bob graduated from the Army’s Command and General Staff College, the Navy’s School of Aviation Medicine and the National War College. When he retired from the Army in 1976 as full colonel he had fought in three wars and had earned a Purple Heart, two Silver Stars and four Bronze Stars. Upon retirement Bob, his wife, Jane, and their six children moved to Raleigh, where Bob became director of the Wake County Health Department. He and Jane made many trips to France, and Bob wrote about his experiences in World War II and Korea. He is survived by Jane, six children and 12 grandchildren.