 Courtesy Dignity Memorial |
The Society mourns the loss of William A. Petri, Sr., who, along with his wife of 65 years, Dr. Ann E. Petri, was a longtime supporter of the ASTMH Young Investigator Awards. Mr. Petri passed away April 9, 2018.
He also is the father of former ASTMH President and former Scientific Program Chair William Petri, Jr., MD, PhD, FASTMH, a Life Member.
Read the obituary for Mr. Petri from Dignity Memorial. The following is an excerpt:
“Following WWII, (William A. Petri, Sr.) started his life-time work as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and was stationed in Germany where he debriefed German missile engineers who had been prisoners of war in Russia. In 1951, he returned to the United States, and spent the rest of his career at the CIA Headquarters.
“After thirty-seven years in the CIA as a missile engineer, he retired and became a CIA consultant. He designed a course called Rapidly Advancing Technology Systems (RATS) where he taught government scientists about advancing U.S. technological research by taking small groups of them to defense plants all over the United States and arranging tours and lectures at each place.
“He and his wife, Ann Emmons Petri, were married for 65 years and have four amazing children: Michelle Ann Petri, MD, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, married to Daniel Ware Goldman, PhD; William Arthur Petri, Jr., MD, PhD, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, married to Mary Ann McDonald Petri, MD; Elizabeth Petri Henske, MD, an oncologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, married to Robert Charles Henske; and Steven Richard Petri, an attorney with the U.S. Department Justice in Fort Lauderdale, married to Sarah Offerdahl Petri.”