RICHARD B. SCHENK II ’71

RICHARD B. SCHENK II, M.D., a pathologist, died Jan. 4, 2017, at age 67. He received his degree magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine, he trained there and at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He worked at the Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign, Ill., and at S.S.M. Health Good Samaritan Hospital in Mount Vernon, Ill. Among those who survive are his wife, Gina Smith Schenk; two children; one stepson; two grandchildren; his mother; his brother, Christopher R. Schenk ’75; and several nieces and nephews.