WILLIAM A. WINSLOW ’38

WILLIAM A. WINSLOW, M.D., a physician, died Nov. 5, 2005, at age 89, in Cambridge, Mass., following a protracted illness. He was a graduate of the Alban (N.Y.) Academy, where he’d been class valedictorian. A member of Chi Psi, he received his degree with honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He won the then-only economics prize and delivered the Rich Oration at Commencement. During World War II he was a conscientious objector who was imprisoned for refusing even to sign draft registration papers. He received his medical degree from Cornell Medical School. He later became a Hindu monk, practicing medicine in India and spending his later years as Swami Sarveshananda of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda order. He is survived by two brothers, including Richard K. Winslow ’40, and numerous nieces and nephews.