JACK REYNOLDS ’48

JACK REYNOLDS, a radiologist and distinguished faculty member at the University of Texas, Health Science Center in Dallas (now Southwestern Medical Center), died Sept. 26, 2007, at age 84. A member of Sigma Nu, he received his degree with honors and with distinction in biology. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Sigma Xi. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army and then received his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. During his 48-year teaching career at the medical school, he earned many honors for his excellence in teaching, including being named a Piper Foundation professor, the Ashbel Smith Professorship, and having an endowed chair in radiology established in his name. A staff member at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, he was on duty in 1963 when President Kennedy was shot and brought to Parkland. Survivors include his wife, Mary Jane Schermerhorn Reynolds, his son David Reynolds ’77, two grandsons, and his extended family.