Dr. Samuel Reuben Oleinick

Sam was a true and loving friend for over 60 years. We met at the Wistar Institute of the University of Pennsylvania when we were young and at the beginning of our Research Careers. In addition to working hard during the week on our individual Research projects, we played bridge all Friday nights or went skiing in Vermont over the weekends. Sam was a wonderful physician, and an enthusiastic laboratory scientist. He was the true Renaissance man. In loving memory of a wonderful friend. Sam,...

My heart goes out to all of you, especially Kara, Julie, and Stephen, your children, and the entire Oleinick family. I have known Sam my entire life as he was a dear friend of my parents (Dolores & Daniel Ellis) since before I was born. They all met at Wistar in Philadelphia and they talked fondly of their years working there together, as well as ski trips and many other non-work adventures. My earliest memory of Sam is that of my parents' bachelor friend driving out to the suburbs to...