Royal Jay Bartrum Jr. died April 28, 2006 at his home in East Montpelier VT after living gracefully with prostate cancer for five years. Royal graduated from Carleton and then entered Harvard University Medical School, from which he graduated in 1969. He married Jane Chamberlain, and they moved to San Francisco for a year where he did a surgical internship at San Francisco General Hospital. They returned to Boston where he was a clinical academic fellow and resident in radiology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He served as chief resident in 1975 and 1975.
He then joined the clinical faculty as a radiologist at Dartmouth Medical School. In 1987 he moved his family to Montpelier to practice radiology at the Central Medical Center. He was trained in Denmark in the use of ultrasound and was one of the first to use this technology in the US. He published three seminal books on ultrasound and was the author of over thirty medical journal articles.
Royal had many interests beyond medicine. He was an avid Boston Red Sox fan, an accomplished classical and jazz pianist and also played the clarinet, saxophone and flute. For five years he served as organist at St. John the Baptist Church in Hardwick. He loved the outdoors and the camp he and his family had on Peacham Pond. He and his son Nathaniel climbed each of New Hampshire’s 48 4000-foot peaks before Nathaniel’s 11th birthday.
Survivors include his wife and two sons.
Excerpted from the Montpelier TimesArgus.
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