Obituary Aaron R. Rausen  

     Aaron Rausen died on July 7th of pancreatic cancer at Calvary Hospital Hospice in the Bronx, New York.  Born in Jersey City, he grew up in New York City, attended Stuyvesant High School, majored in English/Philosophy, worked for WDBS and served as managing editor of the Dartmouth Quarterly.  After his junior year he went to State University of New York Medical School in New York City obtaining his medical degree in 1954 and a Phi Beta Kappa key.  His pediatric training in New York City was followed by two years in the US Army Medical Corps in Arizona and then more training in Pediatric Hematology in Boston before returning to New York City in 1961.  There he pursued his career as a clinician-investigator-academic.  That was at Mount Sinai School for Medicine for twenty-years during which time he married Emalou Watkins, a well known fashion designer and by 1972 had two daughters and a son.  In 1981 he became a professor of Pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine and their principal investigator for clinical trials in pediatric cancer.  In 1990 he was named The Founding Director of the Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children’s Center for cancer and blood disorders at New York University Medical Center.  For his contributions to children’s health and his devotion to Dartmouth and his class he was honored with a Spirit of ’51 Award in 2003.  Aaron is survived by Emalou, daughters Susan and Elisabeth, son David ’90 and three grandchildren.