The Journal lived at Underbarrow near Kendal. He died on 3 April 2020, having succumbed to COVID-19.
DR GERALD LEON ZEITLIN (1951)
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Gerald Zeitlin was born on 7 March 1931 in London, and was educated at William Ellis School. He had hoped to enrol at the London Hospital, like his father, but was thwarted by the restrictions on the number of Jewish students; so he took a year to qualify for Cambridge matriculation and came to Fitzwilliam to read Medicine in 1951. After graduating in 1954 he went to Oxford to undertake clinical studies, eventually gaining his BChir in 1957 and MB in 1958. At Oxford he was exposed to the burgeoning field of anaesthesia, which became his speciality. He married a young Irish-Jewish violinist, Aideen in 1960. The family emigrated with their children to the USA in 1965. Between private appointments at Lynn, Mass. & Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass, he held academic appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He served a term as President of the Massachusetts Society of Anaesthesiologists, and published several papers on the history of anaesthesia. Gerald enjoyed family life bringing up his three children, Louise, Jonathan and Richard, coaching soccer and spending summers in Cape Cod. In retirement he published a memoir of his professional life, Laughing and Crying about Anaesthesia: a Memoir of Risk and Safety, which is also a history of the subject from its beginnings to the present day. He died on 26 April 2020 at University Hospitals, St John Medical Centre, Westlake, Ohio, leaving his three married children and their families. His wife died in 2014.
THE FITZWILLIAM SOCIETY FITZWILLIAM SOCIETY COMMITTEE 2020-21 President
Judith Bunting
Vice-Presidents Geoff Harrison (1955) Professor Brian Johnson FRS (ex officio) Professor Robert Lethbridge (ex officio) The Reverend Professor David Thompson John Adams (1958) Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE (1971) Professor Nicola Padfield QC (ex officio) Dr John Cleaver Dame Sarah Asplin DBE (1979) Baroness Sally Morgan (Master) (ex officio) Zoë Shaw (1979) Secretary
Peter Howard (1970)
Treasurer
Robin Bell (1965)
Editor of the Journal & Development Director
Dr Nicola Jones (ex officio)
Bursar
Rod Cantrill (ex officio)
Senior Tutor
Dr Paul Chirico (ex officio)
Elected Members Retiring 2021 Peter Bates (1959) Rachael Webb (1979) Susannah Odell (2011) Retiring 2022 Professor Glen Norcliffe (1962) Andrew Garden (1981) Judith Bunting (1979) Retiring 2023 James Harrington (2008) Matt Bennison (2008) Dr Helen Bettinson (1982) JCR Presidents
Andrew Salkeld (2018) [President 2019-20] Ellie Brain (2017) [President 2018-19]
MCR Presidents
Maurits Houck (2018) [President 2020-21] Aisha Sobey (2017) [President 2019-20]
Given the unusual turn of 2019-20, the Fitzwilliam Society asked Judith Bunting to continue her Presidency until September 2021.
