Beatrice Marx Prosnitz ’59

Beatrice Marx Prosnitz ’59, of Chapel Hill, N.C., formerly of New Haven, Conn., and Tuba City, Ariz.; Apr. 6, from complications of Parkinson’s. After graduating and marrying, she moved to New York and worked at New York Life Insurance Company as her husband began medical school. Due to his military/medical career, they moved frequently and she took advantage of each place they lived. While in New Hampshire, she became a proficient downhill skier and a mother for the first time. In Tuba City, Arizona, she was afforded the opportunity to explore the Southwest before moving to New Haven, where they remained for 18 years. She had two more children, became a stay-at-home mother, and enjoyed biking and playing tennis and duplicate bridge. She eventually returned to work as a research assistant in the department of psychiatry at Yale. She had two sabbatical leaves: to Jerusalem in 1980 and Taipei in 1992. She enjoyed visiting many Asian countries during that time. They moved to Chapel Hill in 1983 and she resumed work at Duke’s department of psychiatry and learned to whitewater kayak. She paddled the Grand Canyon in 1998 as a proud achievement. She is survived by her husband, Len; three children; and six grandchildren.