Dr. Darryl Carter

Dr. Darryl Carter, a retired Surgical Pathologist, died on April 21st, 2023. He was 87 years old. Darryl was the beloved husband of the late Margaret Alice Meade Carter; devoted father of Michael and his wife Kate; daughter Margaret and her husband Francis; daughter Rebecca; and son Jeffrey and his wife Amanda; loving grandfather of Greta, Caroline and Jasper; dear brother-in-law of Hugh and Ginny Meade, Charles and Rosemary Meade, Lynda Meade, Anne Meade; and the late Mary Isabel and Jerry Laroque, James Meade and John Meade. He was born in Baltimore in 1935 and was a scholarship student at The McDonogh School, graduating in 1953 with the E.J. Pick Award for highest academic achievement. He went on to Johns Hopkins University where he graduated in 1957 with BA and MS degrees. He was a member of the football and lacrosse teams in his first year and a four-year varsity letter winner on the fencing team. He received his MD degree from Hopkins Medical School in 1961. He was an intern and Assistant Resident in Surgery from 1961 to 1963 at University Hospital in Columbus, Ohio where he and his wife Alice became Buckeye football fans. From 1963 to 1965, he was a captain in the US Army Medical Corps, stationed at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, DC. He returned to Hopkins as a member of the faculty from 1969 to 1977. Born and raised in Baltimore, he and Alice were tremendous Orioles and Colts fans and attended many games. In 1977 he accepted a tenured professorship of Pathology at Yale University in the School of Medicine, where he worked until 2003. He gave national annual courses in lung and breast pathology and served as President of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of International Pathologists from 1981 to 1983. While in Connecticut, he enjoyed sailing on the Long Island Sound and became a lifelong fan of the UConn Huskies men’s and women’s basketball teams. He retired from Yale in 2003 as a Professor Emeritus of Pathology. Growing restless in retirement, he became a consultant at the National Cancer Institute and worked as a pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and later the Joint Pathology Center until 2015. He was also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins until 2020. His expertise was vast in the field of breast and lung pathology. He co-authored over 160 original articles and more than 50 chapters in medical texts, as well as countless reviews. One of his favorites was the chapter on the History of Surgical Pathology at Johns Hopkins from 1893-1960, in Guiding the Surgeon’s Hand: A History of Surgical Pathology, published in 1997. He loved to travel, sit on the beach with friends and family at his home in Ocean Village, Delaware, and eat Maryland crabs and Grotto Pizza. He will be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather, friend, colleague and mentor. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in his memory to the McDonogh Fund at McDonogh School, ATTN: Office of Philanthropy, 8600 McDonogh Rd., Owings Mills, MD 21117-0380 or www.mcdonogh.org/giving/theMcDonogh-fund/give.

Dr. Darryl Carter

December 1, 1935 - April 21, 2023