Clarence K. Aldrich ’35

C. Knight Aldrich, M.D., a psychiatrist and author, died Nov. 3, 2017. He was 103. A member of Eclectic, he received his degree with honors and with high distinction in psychology. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Sigma Xi. After receiving his medical degree from Northwestern University, he served in the U.S. Public Health Service during World War II. Following the war, he was a faculty member of the medical schools at the universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and in 1955 became chairman of the newly formed Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He had an unwavering commitment to understanding mental health illness and to improving mental health care, particular in the community. An author of many articles and several books, he wrote about aspects of psychiatry as well as a book based on his great-grandfather’s Civil War letters. His wife, Julie Honore Aldrich, and two sons predeceased him. Survivors include a son; a daughter; eight grandchildren, including Adam B. Aldrich ’17; and three great-grandchildren.