Notes for John Paul SIGSBEE
Source: obit
John P. Sigsbee, March 16, 1997. John Sigsbee was a member of College Club. As an undergraduate he captained football and track teams and for decades held the record for the 100-yard dash and shot put. Following service during World War II, he was a member of the first post-war class at Boston Univ. Medical School, graduating in 1950. Raised in Wilbraham, Mass., he returned there to begin a 23-year practice of general medicine. Dr. Sigsbee also coached football at Wilbraham Academy and served as the town's fire chief for eight years. In 1962 he was the first physician to specialize in emergency medicine at Wesson Memorial Hospital in Springfield, and from 1975 to 1987 he lived in Brewster, practicing emergency medicine and serving as department chief at Cape Cod Hospital. For his personal and professional accomplishments, John Sigsbee was noted in Medical Economics and Sports Illustrated magazines. And a June 29, 1965, Look article, "A New Kind of Doctor," described the Wesson Emergency Associates who "specialize in crises." A charter member of the Captain's Golf Course in Brewster, he enjoyed retirement by playing golf, gardening, and traveling. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Milliken Sigsbee '42; two sons, Bruce and Carl, and a daughter, Anne, who are all doctors; and eight grandchildren.
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