DAVID J. SENCER ’46

DAVID J. SENCER, M.D. the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, died May 2, 2011, at age 86. A member of Eclectic, he left the university to join the U.S. Navy during World War II, and later received his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan, as well as an M.P.H. from Harvard University. He became director of the CDC in 1966 and expanded the role of the agency, making it a worldwide disease-fighting organization and promoting worldwide efforts to eradicate smallpox and measles. He later became New York City’s health commissioner and retired fully in 1989. In 2009, the University granted him an Honorary B.A. Among those who survive are his wife, Jane Blood Sencer; three children, including Stephen D. Sencer ’84; and six grandchildren.