Deceased December 3, 2020
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In Memory
Paul chose to spend his medical career in Billings, Mont. He practiced internal medicine and became medical director of the Billings Clinic, which today is the largest health care provider in Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. Along the way, Paul served the likes of Rocky Mountain College as director of student health and the Crow Indian Reservation. He retired in 1991 and continued his life in Billings.
He went to The Hill School and then enlisted in the Navy during World War II before joining our class and pledging Phi Gamma Delta. Paul was a fine wrestler, earning his “A” for three years. The University of Rochester is where he got his medical degree before interning at a hospital in Brighton, Mass. There, he met his wife, Fredrikke (now deceased), a visiting nurse from Denmark. Paul was also forever moved when volunteers, at significant risk to themselves, pumped air for 10 young polio patients in iron lungs when the power failed. His residency was at the University of Washington hospital.
Paul always enjoyed the outdoors. All through Amherst, he was a member of the Outing Club. In Montana, he skied, hiked, fished, canoed and kept a cabin in Red Lodge.
Paul left three children, Jeff, John and Kristin Telkamp, along with seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was 93 when he died in December 2020.
John Priesing ’50