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In Memoriam

Wilton Wells Webster, Jr.

Wilton Wells (“Will”) Webster, Jr. (BS ’49), a pioneering inventor of cardiac catheters, passed away on November 10. He was 90.  Curing patients with heart arrhythmias by radio-frequency ablation using catheters was a novel approach until Will Webster, together with...
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Richard Van Kirk

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Edward M. Boughton

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Jack W. Schwartz

Jack William Schwartz, passed away peacefully in Hanford, CA on November 7, 2018. He was 103 years old. Jack was born in San Francisco on April 28, 1915, the second of two children born to Adolph and Beatrice Schwartz. His family moved to Hollywood, California, where...
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