Deceased January 16, 2016
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William Bergstrom, 95, died Jan. 16 in a hospice in Danvers, Mass. William was born in Bay City, Mich., and attended the Albany (N.Y.) Academy and Binghamton (N.Y.) Central High School. At Amherst he was a member of the Lord Jeffery Amherst Club and was active in the Outing Club (four years), the Pre-Medical Club (three years) and Phi Beta Kappa (senior year). (During college summers he took classes at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass.)
Graduating from the University of Rochester Medical School in 1945, he began a long career in pediatrics and research, including decades of teaching pediatrics at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse N.Y.; research posts in Boston; and traveling with medical teams to Algiers, Brazil and China. Bergstrom worked with colleagues and students on more than 40 research papers and presentations during a lengthy research career, authored a chapter in the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics and in the 1960s initiated and ran fully staffed clinics to care for children in migrant worker camps in upstate New York. He was married to Charlotte Stuart Bergstrom for almost 72 years; they raised four children, and lived for 60 years in Manlius, N.Y., until retiring to Danvers, Mass., in 2012. He is survived by his wife and four children—William S. Bergstrom of Rutledge, Pa.; John S. Bergstrom of Boston; Mary Linn Bergstrom of San Diego; and David B. Bergstrom of Deposit, N.Y.—as well as five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Richard S. Ward ’42