Robert M. Austin ’71

Robert M. Austin ’71 of Northampton, Massachusetts, until 2007 a diagnostic radiologist at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, died at home on September 27, 2009, from a rare neurodegenerative disease, frontotemporal Dementia. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, he was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and earned his medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine after Dartmouth. He trained at Tufts New England Medical Center and worked at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston before joining Radiology and Imaging Inc. at Baystate Medical Center in 1985. A famously proud and devoted husband and father, he is survived by his wife of 34 years, novelist Elinor Lipman, son Benjamin and mother Elsie Tobias Austin. He was predeceased by his older brother William, who died in 1995.

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