Gerald Greene

GERALD SWING GREENE Doctor Greene was born in New York City April 2, 1914. He attended Stuyvesant High School and then Swathmore College followed by Harvard Medical School and two years of rotating internship at Hartford Hospital. He joined the US Navy as a Lieutenant Junior Grade, served aboard the USS Baltimore, a heavy cruiser, mostly in the Pacific, where he was engaged in twelve major battles over two years. After the war he was transferred to the US Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Before discharge he was a Lieutenant Commander in charge of the Orthopedic Department. Following discharge he spent two more years in orthopedic training, one at the Boston Children's Hospital and one at Massachusetts General Hospital. He practiced orthopedic surgery in Hartford, Connecticut for thirty-four years. He and his wife opened two restaurants, one in Middletown and the other in Hamden, Connecticut. One of his greatest pleasures was restoring an old and decrepit, yet charming farmhouse with his wife, Frankie. Dr. Greene was the founding and senior member of a nine-man group of orthopedic surgeons in Hartford, Connecticut, which was the largest group at that time. He was orthopedic consultant at the Hartford Rehabilitation Center, the Institute for Living, and the Connecticut State Hospital for the Mentally Impaired, and on the staff of Hartford Hospital and the Newington Hospital for Crippled Children. He was also on the Board of Directors of the Hartford School of Music. His hobby was working on the potters wheel, on which he made all sorts of shapes but especially little decorated animals he called "anamalicules". He and his wife Frankie came to Santa Fe at age sixty-six after they had both retired. In Santa Fe he did volunteer work at the School for American Research and the Wheelright Museum. He was a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee at the Wheelright Museum, and also a member of the Board of Directors of El Castillo Retirement Center, before becoming a resident there in 1990. Besides Elizabeth, Frankie his wife of 68 years, he leaves one daughter, Michele, and two sons, Eric and Dennis, as well as five grandchildren scattered around the world. A memorial service will be held on Monday, November 23, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. at El Castillo Retirement Center in the Community Room. Rivera Family Funeral Options 417 E. Rodeo Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 989-7032 santafefuneraloption.com