Dr. Henry P. Staub, BS Med ’45, pediatrician, died in Minneapolis on March 8, 2011, at age 91, surrounded by his loving family. Henry was born in 1919 in Berlin, Germany, to Ludwig and Erna (Zitzke) Staub. He left in March 1941 to escape persecution. He arrived by ship in San Francisco on April 10, 1941, and traveled to New York City. He supported himself for six months before getting a scholarship to Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

After graduating from Augsburg in 1943, Henry joined the Army and started medical school at the University of North Dakota. He became a U.S. citizen in 1944. Henry earned his Medical Doctor Degree from the University of Illinois in 1947, did his internship and residency in Minneapolis, started pediatric practice in northeast Minneapolis in 1950, and joined the Army Medical Corps shortly afterward. While stationed in Missouri, before going overseas, he met and married Bebe Westhues.

The family returned to Minneapolis in 1952, and Henry resumed practice. In 1967, he joined the University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics, where he helped found Pilot City Health Center and served as its acting medical director. In 1970, he joined the Department of Pediatrics faculty at the State University of New York in Buffalo and became director of pediatrics at Meyer Memorial Hospital. He joined the Marshall University Department of Pediatrics in Huntington, W.Va., in 1979. Henry and Bebe returned to Minneapolis in 1983, and Henry again worked in private practice and later started an independent clinic, the Staub Pediatric Group. In 1991, he was appointed clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. He retired in 2001; he had been a practicing pediatrician for 50 years.

Henry was awarded many honors, including the Gold-Headed Cane award by the University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics (1996). Henry was a community activist in pediatrics, promoting the health and welfare of children and their families. He touched countless lives through his practice, through training medical students and residents, and through his wide smile and listening ears.