William Fullerton (Sandy) Otis, Jr. died astatine location connected November 28, 2022, astatine the property of 97 aft a fall. He was alert, talkative and lucid close to his end.
Sandy was calved connected October 16, 1925 successful Kansas City, Missouri. In September of 1940 helium entered St. Paul’s School successful Concord, New Hampshire. He excelled successful sports astatine St. Paul’s, and successful his elder twelvemonth was Secretary of his Form.
Sandy was permitted by St. Paul’s to postgraduate successful December 1943 on with 2 friends, Jon Vickers and Mike McClanahan, successful bid to enlist successful the United States Army Air Corps to combat successful World War II. Sandy and Jon Vickers were sent to England and fought arsenic process gunners successful B-25s. Unfortunately, Vickers was changeable down and killed connected a mission.
Sandy’s level was besides changeable down connected 1 juncture but helium parachuted retired implicit Holland, survived, and was backmost astatine the aerial basal wrong 36 hours. He completed 34 combat missions. For his warfare service, Sandy was awarded some the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
After the war, Sandy met his archetypal wife, Grete, who had travel to the United States from Norway close aft the war, astatine International House successful New York City. They soon travelled astir the state uncovering jobs unneurotic and spent the wintertime of 1949 successful Jackson, Wyoming, wherever Sandy skied. Thereafter, Sandy and Grete moved to Middlebury, Vermont wherever Sandy attended Middlebury College connected the G.I. Bill and graduated successful the Class of 1953. His archetypal child, Christine, was calved successful 1950 successful Middlebury. He went connected to Vermont Medical School successful Burlington, Vermont, graduating successful 1957. His 2nd child, Kim, was calved successful Burlington successful 1954.
Sandy did his internship and residency astatine Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which helium completed successful the summertime of 1959. He past took his household to Europe for 14 months. The household lived the wintertime successful Lech, Austria and the remainder of the twelvemonth successful a tiny municipality connected the confederate seashore of Spain.
Sandy started his psychiatric signifier successful 1962 astatine The Carrier Clinic, a psychiatric infirmary successful Belle Mead, New Jersey wherever helium was a practicing psychiatrist until 1977. He was astir arrogant of introducing radical therapy to the Clinic. In 1978-79, Sandy and Grete moved to Zurich wherever Sandy studied to go a Jungian expert astatine the Jung Institute. On their instrumentality to Princeton Sandy had a backstage signifier until 1992.
After his status from backstage signifier Sandy audited respective courses a semester astatine Princeton University for implicit 20 years. He traveled to municipality each time connected his motorcycle and loved being successful town, often utilizing the room to bash his studies. For decades helium besides met with a tiny radical of older men each greeting for 2 hours astatine Bon Appétit. When the pandemic ended that, helium continued to conscionable with the radical connected Zoom until soon earlier his death.
After the decease of his archetypal woman successful 1999 Sandy joined Daniela Bittman. For galore years Sandy and Daniela traveled to Europe each summertime for implicit 2 months, staying astatine an flat supra a barn successful Switzerland, arsenic good arsenic places they recovered successful the Dordogne portion of France. He loved to question astir Switzerland and hiked galore mountains successful the Alps.
Sandy ever said that helium was 1 of the luckiest men live and that helium enjoyed his beingness tremendously. He famously said that his 80’s were the champion decennary of his life. When helium had a motorcycle mishap successful his 90th year, things started to get much difficult. He said helium was peculiarly fortunate to person a 2nd matrimony to Daniela. They were devoted to each other. She took fantastic attraction of him, particularly and wholly astatine the extremity of his life.
Sandy is survived by his woman Daniela Bittman, his lad and daughter-in-law Kim and Loraine Otis, his granddaughter Anna Otis, his stepson Jonathan Bittman and his wife, Sarah Jeffrey and daughter, Bodil. Sandy was besides predeceased by his daughter, Christine Otis.
At Sandy’s petition determination volition beryllium nary service. He asked that if aft helium died anyone who knew him personally remembered a bully infinitesimal with him, that was each helium wanted.
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