David Baldwin, Sr., 83, died March 31, 2005, in Chicago. He was born May 17, 1921, in New York City. He graduated from St. Mark's School in 1939, from Yale University in 1943, and Northwestern School of Medicine in 1946. He came to medicine from the humanities, knowing Greek, Latin and French and with a lifelong love of history and the English Romantics. In 1948 he served as chief public health officer in Nagasaki, Japan. He began his career at The Presbyterian Hospital where he remained as a senior physician for forty-five years during its evolution to Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center. He was director of the Drug Abuse Program at St. Leonard's House in the 1960s and 1970s. A member of the vestry and choir at St. Chrysostom's church, he was also an enthusiast piano player and an avid gardener. A member of the Literary Club since 1989, he presented five papers.