Deceased January 8, 2022
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In Memory
Jim Dunphy passed away on Jan. 8 after a prolonged illness. He was a graduate of Milton (Mass.) High School. After Amherst, Jim graduated from Tufts Medical School. Following the completion of his medical training in radiology, he served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. Jim co-founded the Milton Radiology practice, also in Milton, Mass., from which he retired 30 years later. Subsequently, he worked and taught at the Veterans Administration in several of its eastern Massachusetts facilities. His children say he particularly loved the teaching part.
Jim married Katherine Haynes after courting her beginning in middle school. She became a computer technician and was quite active in Milton politics, serving as the first woman “selectman” for six years. Sadly, she died several weeks after Jim’s death. Jim and Katherine raised four talented, high-achieving children—Jim, Susan, Laura and Libby.
Jim’s interests were many. From an early age, he was fascinated by the radio. In fact, on the sly for a time during freshman year, he operated (until it was closed by campus police) a renegade amateur radio facility from the attic of Stearns dormitory that interfered with WAMH, the College’s radio station. Jim was an avid carpenter, but his favorite hobby was sailing. He loved being out on the water, usually Buzzards Bay. Renting a boat and sailing around the Virgin Islands with family members put him in seventh heaven. On one memorable June adventure to Maine, also on a rented sailboat, the family encountered winterlike conditions, including sleet. Laura and Libby remember that Jim, in a near-frozen condition, discovered his long underwear, which had been dutifully packed by his wife, on the last day of the trip.
—Sandy Short ’62