In Memory

David Feliciano

David Feliciano

https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/pnys0681033



 
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01/10/24 06:16 PM #1    

Craig Morrison

I’ve known David for over 73 years. We first met in kindergarten back in 1949 and became friends almost immediately. We went through grammar school and high school together. We did all the things that kids did back then….rode bikes, skipped stones on the ponds in Goffle Brook Park, played basketball at the hoop attached to his parent’s garage and stick ball in the backyard. At his parent’s home on Greenwood Lake he taught me to water ski and then got me up on shoe skis. In high school I was kind of shy and David talked me into getting out and getting involved in a number of activities like sports and clubs and student government. And I certainly thank him for that.

But what I noticed growing up with David, was how focused he was. In everything he encountered he wanted to understand the details of it. Not only did this help him excel in activities in general, but mostly it reinforced his academics. When there was a choice to be made, academics always won. I think he saw what his father was doing in his practice, and excellence in learning was going to help him understand that. This is the trait that put him at the top of his class in grammar school and high school and earned him a cum laude degree at Georgetown.

After we left high school and went on to college, we stayed in touch and saw each other occasionally when we were home from school, but we were clearly on different paths. Eventually I went into the technology end of the business world and he went into medicine. I was grateful that we still managed to see each other once or twice a year.

Reading David’s obituary blew me away. I never knew the details of what he was doing. But that brought everything back to me. His contributions to medicine stand out all around the country and beyond. The number of organizations he had belonged to and led and the awards he achieved are incredible. These are testaments to his abilities. His commitment to learning and excellence has more than paid off.  And that was not just for himself.  He wasn’t selfish with what he had learned nor did he flaunt his knowledge. Instead, he used it to serve his patients and to pass on everything he knew to those who wanted to know or needed to know and were coming behind him. This was documented in the articles he wrote, the books he published, the lectures he gave and in his mentoring.

The medical profession has lost a talented, exceptional individual and I have lost a dear friend.


01/11/24 06:32 AM #2    

Joan Snyder (Picone)

Craig's memoir about David is beautifully written. It's the David, we all knew.  My favorite memories of him were during the meetings of the class officers. He was president and always had the task of trying to run the meetings, not easy when my job was to have fun.  
His success in all he did, speaks for itself.  He made our world a better place and touch all the lives of those that knew him. He was anxious to come to the planned reunion. He will be remembered and missed.


01/16/24 10:23 AM #3    

Lynn Moskowitz (DeLisi)

David was a close collegue and friend during my HS years--We shared the goal of wanting to go to Medical School and then lost contact for several years after graduation--until we found each other in the midst of our careers at different hospitals. He invited me to Hawthorne for the memorial for his father when he passed away and since then periodically have kept in touch--I am so sad to see he prematurely passed away. He had so many more years to give the world. He will always remain in my memory as the guy who I shared solutions to algebra problems with, shared dreams of becoming an MD to cure all, and the one who would offer me rides home from school so I did not have to walk up that awful Hill.. RIP David! 

 

 


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