VICTOR CHAMANDY

CHAMANDY VICTOR CHAMANDY, Ph.D. (Age 69) On May 30, 2013 at Capital Caring Hospice in Arlington, VA after a 2½-year struggle with pancreatic cancer. Vic was born in Manila, Philippines on February 7, 1944 to Claire and Tawfik Chamandy, originally from Syria. His birth occured at the height of WWII in the Pacific and the family's house was burned down when Vic was an infant. The family was able to emigrate to the U.S. when Vic was 5, first to Brooklyn, NY and then to Washington, DC where Vic graduated from Western High School and George Washington University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Chi, the psychology honor society. He attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin and earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the Catholic University of America. In 1970 Vic interned at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC where he met his wife of 38 years, Marjorie A. Harelick, M.D. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Lafayette Clinic in Detroit, Michigan, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit, a staff psychologist at Northern Viginia Mental Health Institute in Fairfax, VA and at Dominion Hospital in Falls Church, VA. Vic subsequently opened a private practice of clinical psychology with offices in Annandale, VA and Manassas, VA where he specialized in individual psychotherapy and psychological and neuropsychological testing. He retired in 2010 for health reasons. Opera and tennis were Vic's passions and he was an enthusiastic amateur potter, pottery collector, and traveler. In addition to his wife, Vic leaves a son, Alex Chamandy of Arlington; a sister, Toni Khoury of Ft. Lee, NJ; a brother, Joe Chamandy of SIlver Spring, MD; as well as many loving family members, friends and grateful patients. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 15 at 2 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, 4444 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, VA 22204. Donations in Vic's honor may be made to pancan.org (Pancreatic Cancer Action Network), an organization that funds research and provides information and support to pancreatic cancer patients and their familes or to capitalcaring.org (Capital Caring), the Northern Virginia hospice which provides comfort care to the terminally ill.A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 15 at 2 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, 4444 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, VA 22204. Donations in Vic's honor may be made to pancan.org (Pancreatic Cancer Action Network), an organization that funds research and provides information and support to pancreatic cancer patients and their familes or to capitalcaring.org (Capital Caring), the Northern Virginia hospice which provides comfort care to the terminally ill.