In Memoriam
1970 - 1979
Scroll down to see obituaries, which appear in order of DMS class year. To go directly to any individual obituary, click on the name here, listed in alphabetical order.
Gary Loomis Blaich, DMS '70
Harold L. Taylor, '73
Bradley C. Lind, '74
Gary Loomis Blaich
DMS '70
Gary Blaich died of cancer on November 25, 2010 at the age of 64. He was a psychiatrist who worked in the Hawaii state mental health system and in private practice. Classmate Nigel Paneth, writing in DMS Alumni News & Notes, remembered Dr. Blaich as “a man of great warmth and compassion, the ideal physician for a person in emotional distress.”
Born and raised in Hawaii, Dr. Blaich came east to attend Dartmouth College and then DMS, graduating in 1968 and 1970, respectively. He then completed his MD degree at the University of Washington, followed by a residency in psychiatry at the University of Washington affiliated hospitals.
Upon completing his training, Dr. Blaich moved back to Hawaii, where he worked at Hawaii State Hospital, was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, and maintained a private practice on Kaua’i for more than 30 years. As president of the Kaua’I Public Land Trust he helped lead efforts leading to the conservation of over 175 acres of coastal lands.
Dr. Blaich is survived by his wife of 42 years, Beryl; daughters Mehana Vaughan and Meleana Estes; two grandchildren; and many extended family members.
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Bradley C. Lind, '74
Bradley C. “Foont” Lind, a hospitalist, died on February 2, 2013, in Boundary County, Idaho, at the age of 62.
Dr. Lind attended Stanford University on a full basketball scholarship and, there, began his pre-medical studies. He then attended Dartmouth Medical School, graduating in 1974. He completed his MD at the University of Minnesota and did his internship and residency at hospitals affiliated with the university.
Dr. Lind began his career working as a staff physician for Group Health Incorporated. He then moved to Tacoma, Wash., to work for Group Health Cooperative as a staff physician. After 10 years in Tacoma, Dr. Lind moved to Kellogg, Idaho, in 1995 to work at Shoshone Medical Center. In 1999, he returned to Washington state as a partner at Northeast Washington Medical Group Garden Homes Clinic where he stayed until 2012, when he became a hospitalist at Providence Mount Carmel Hospital.
Dr. Lind was a member of the American College of Physicians. He is survived by his wife, Lynn; daughters Laura Wells, Kirsten Lind, and Ciara Roose; mother Laura Lind; and brother Fred Lind.
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Harold L. Taylor, '73
Harold “Hal” L. Taylor, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, died on March 15, 2011, at the age of 61 in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Dr. Taylor entered Dartmouth College as a chemistry major in 1967 and was accepted to Dartmouth’s then-accelerated medical program, earning his MD in 1973. He served an internship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, from 1973 to 1974, before completing his residency in psychiatry at Sinai Hospital of Detroit in 1977. He then began training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and graduated in 1985.
Although clinical practice was his top priority, Dr. Taylor also taught several courses at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, supervised and taught residents at Wayne State University, and was the assistant training director at Detroit Psychiatric Institute for many years. He held offices in the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society and Institute throughout his career, including chair of the arrangements committee, the program committee, and the Committee on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He also served as chief editor of the newsletter; president of the society; and a member of the admissions committee. The society later created an award in his honor, the Harold L. Taylor, MD, Award for humaneness and generosity of spirit in the practice of psychoanalysis. Posthumously, Dr. Taylor was the award’s first recipient.
Dr. Taylor is survived by his wife of 40 years, Ellen; their daughter, Kathryn Taylor Davis; and his brother, Vaughan E. Taylor, DC ’69.
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