Linsly R. Williams

The New Year has parted from us one fellow-Clubman who will always be held in affectionate remembrance. The quietly cordial greeting of Linsly Rudd Williams, his modest participation in the talk of whatever group he joined, would not perhaps of themselves have suggested the doctor’s remarkable career. He was among his profession’s most distinguished forward-looking men. Cure of disease, alleviation of human suffering, were closest to his heart, but his mind and imagination were equally busy with planning for medical achievement in the future which the present had hardly yet envisaged. His picture of the public health administration as it ought to be and as, in the fulness of time, he considered it bound to be, was not a dream but the program of an intensely practical master of the problem. He had himself served on the State Health commission, as sanitary inspector at the front in the Great War, and as active colleague for the city hospitals and for the medical foundations, in which he believed profoundly. Dr. Williams had clear ideas on the further prolongation of the span of human life; to past achievement in that interesting objective he had himself contributed. Always he was a good Centurion; this evening would have completed for him a useful three-year term on the Club’s board of managers.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1934 Century Association Yearbook