Gerald Henry Rozan ’52

Gerald Henry Rozan ’52, M.D.,born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 8, 1931, passed away on August 16, 2015, after a prolonged illness. Gerry graduated from Erasmus High School in Brooklyn. In 1946 he became the youngest Eagle Scout with a Silver Palm in the history of the Borough of Brooklyn. He majored in zoology at Dartmouth, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude and was a member of the International Relations Club, the Dartmouth Christian Union and assistant editor of The Dartmouth Quarterly. He received his medical degree from Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia. After his internship at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City Gerry joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a lieutenant commander. After military service he returned to N.Y.C. to do his psychiatric residency. He started his career in academic medicine at the New Jersey College of Medicine and New York University School of Medicine and then opened his own practice. Gerry became president of the Passaic County Medical Society and a board member of the State Medical Society of New Jersey. He was also responsible for creating a psychiatric department at Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, and was the first chair of the department. Upon retiring to Charlottesville, Virginia, he was appointed professor emeritus at the University of Virginia Medical School and avidly pursued his love of fly-fishing. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Susan, sons Joshua and Adam and their spouses.