Diane Winston Crocker ’48 ScM

Diane Winston Crocker ’48 ScM, of Bethesda, Md., formerly of Chicago; Jul. 22. She graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1952 as one of only four women in her class. She was a senior surgical pathologist at Brigham & Women’s and a professor at Harvard Medical School for a decade before moving on to leadership positions at Temple University, University of Southern California, and the University of Tennessee at Memphis, where she was chairman of pathology, the first female department chair. She completed her career at Cook County Hospital in Chicago as chairman of anatomic pathology. During her career she authored more than 200 medical publications, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from BU School of Medicine, and was on the editorial board of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology for many years. She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, including daughter Anne Crocker Hefter ’88, and five grandchildren.