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Sunday, 11 June

Joseph Wallace, 83

Profession: OB/GYN at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, who advocated the presence of fathers in the delivery room and promoted natural childbirth when anesthesia was still standard; served in the Army as a medical officer; taught at both Harvard and Boston University medical schools.

Degrees: Received his A.B. from Harvard in 1943, graduated second in his class at Boston University’s medical school in 1946.

Passions: Golf, painting, playing the piano

Quote: In a statement written for his 50th reunion at Harvard, Wallace, himself a feminist, asserted, “There's hope for the future. But it probably requires a woman president and a female majority of Congress.”

Death: June 9, 2006, from heart failure, in Newton, Mass.

From the Boston Globe.

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