W. Donald Horrigan ’52

W. Donald Horrigan ’52, M.D., of Isle La Motte, Vermont, passed away on July 24, 2014, in Burlington, Vermont. He was born 1931 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Don graduated from Crosby High School in Waterbury and from Dartmouth, cum laude. He was a member of Chi Phi and Alpha Kappa Kappa. He then graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and earned his M.D. at Cornell University Medical College. He was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. After completing his internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City, he was commissioned in the U.S. Army and served as chief of the department of radiology at Fort Eustis, Virginia. He completed his residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City in 1961, entered private practice in radiology at St. Peter’s Medical Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was cofounder of the Radiology Group of New Brunswick. In 1969 he became the director of radiology at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. In 1984 he was named acting chairman of the department of radiology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey-Rutgers Medical School, and remained in this position until his retirement to Vermont in 1986. He resumed radiology practice in 1993 with the associates in radiology at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont, until 1996, when he again retired. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Julie; children Suzanne, Jeffrey, Scott and Benjamin and their spouses; and eight grandchildren.