William R. “Bill” Taylor, BS Med ’49, 83, of Aberdeen, S.D., passed away April 22, at the Bethesda Home of Aberdeen. William Romayne Taylor was born Dec. 13, 1926, to Phineas Romayne and Mildred Almyra (Jacobson) Taylor in Minot, N.D. He was raised in Kenmare, N.D., and graduated from Kenmare High School in 1944. He attended North Dakota Agricultural College (NDSU today) in Fargo for one year and UND in Grand Forks for three years, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. He attended the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Medicine in 1949. He then attended medical school at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he was a member of Phi Sigma Pi Fraternity. His internship in internal medicine was at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, La., where he was recognized as Intern of the Year in 1952. His residencies in internal medicine were at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fargo, and Wood VA Center in Milwaukee, Wis. He received his medical licensure in 1958.