David Baum '52 died of leukemia at Stanford University Hospital , Palo Alto, California on September 9, 2004. He arrived at Dartmouth from Miami Beach HIgh School after two years in the Navy.

Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth, David obained his medical degree at Cornell Medical School and then served at various other institutions - NYU, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, University of Washington - as he progressed in his specialty of pediatric cardiology. At the time he entered that field, an infant with a heart defect was virually untreatable. By the time he retired, as chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Stanford, almost every youthful patient could be treated, mostly with a successful outcome. David had a lot to do with that.

After his 1995 retirement he did medical volunteer work, did some painting, and was an ardent gardener. David leaves his pediatrician wife, Jocelyn, and four sons - Daniel '83, Andrew, Kevin, and Geoffrey.