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Priscilla D. Taft ’38, a doctor who lectured at Harvard Medical School despite being turned down for admission into its program as a Radcliffe undergraduate because of her gender, died Nov. 23 at Berkshire Medical Center...
...Taft overcame obstacles such as a bout with tuberculosis and a car accident to become head of the cytology laboratory of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a Harvard teaching hospital...
...feisty, firm and determined to become a doctor,” said her brother-in-law John E. Taft...
Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1917, Taft came to the United States at age five when her father accepted a research position in Ashville, Tenn. The family later moved to Boston where Taft’s father, Louis Dienes, served as chief bacteriologist...
Growing up in Seattle, Wash., Pettit spent his weekends driving the two and a half hours up to Vancouver, B.C., where his league games took place. He eventually left the West Coast for four years of hockey at Taft, a Connecticut prep school...