Herbert Frederick Gramm ’55
January-February 2026
Herbert Frederick Gramm ’55 died September 6, 2025, in Tucson, Arizona. He was born on December 26, 1932, in Germany to a German mother and American father and came to the United States at the age of 15. Herb attended the Milne School in Albany, New York, before coming to Dartmouth, where he majored in zoology. He then headed to Tufts University School of Medicine. After earning his M.D. in 1959, Herb joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps and served at the 98th General Hospital in Nuremberg, Germany, during the Berlin Crisis. A specialist in gastrointestinal radiology, he practiced for 40 years at the New England Deaconess Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). His interest in education led him to become director of the residency program, and in his honor the center later dedicated the Herbert Gramm Library. Herb was also on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He was elected president of the New England Roentgen Ray Society and the Norfolk District Medical Society and served more than a dozen years as an examiner on the American Board of Radiology. Herb and his wife, Colette, lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for 55 years and spent summers on Gilmore Pond in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, which they later donated to the Monadnock Conservancy. They also joined four other donors of the Bradley Draper Memorial Forest to the New England Forestry Foundation. In 2021 Herb and Colette retired to Tucson. She survives him.