Linda Buchman Allen ’60

Linda Buchman Allen ’60, of Wayland, Mass.; Feb. 10, from metastatic breast cancer. After earning a master’s from Lesley University, she married and moved to Duxbury, where she was appointed president of the Duxbury Art Association. She was known for her pastel portraits, teaching portrait classes for adults and high school students, and exhibiting her work locally. She was diagnosed in 1985 with breast cancer that later metastasized and there were additional health challenges throughout her lifetime, but she cherished each day with a positive approach. She took solace in the fact that her two granddaughters were born and were her guardian angels. In 1992, she began swimming daily in Walden Pond and developed a passion for photographing its foliage and wildlife. Walden Pond became her healing place and she exhibited her work at the Tsongas Gallery. She spent several years counseling adolescents in both a clinical and school setting, followed by working as a surgical liaison at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, where she provided counseling and support to patients and their families facing terminal diagnoses and going through the dying process. She was a member of the Deaconess Bioethics Committee and was proud to have been a participant in the film When Breast Cancer Comes Back: Skills for Living. She was a presenter at the American College of Oncology Administrators Second Annual Symposium and instrumental in the development of a course on death and dying at Harvard Medical School. Phi Beta Kappa. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, and two granddaughters.