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On July 18, 1966, a dear friend and colleague Dr. Lillian K. Kaplan, a deeply compassionate human being, died at the age of fifty-three.
Throughout her life Dr. Kaplan had the deepest concern for human beings and human relationships. Her love for people and her warm, strong generosity was one of her striking characteristics. She could also be quite firm and would put her point of view forward even though it might be unpopular.
She was a truly religious person; in observing Jewish tradition Friday nights her home was an open house to friends with whom she shared the richness and beauty of her family life. Warm and generous hospitality added to readiness to help and encourage where help and encouragement were needed. She was indefatigable in giving of herself.
Dr. Kaplan received her M.D. from the New York Medical College. She was a Resident in Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and got her postgraduate training in psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute. She was Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at the Vanderbilt Clinic and Senior Assistant Psychiatrist at Lenox Hill Hospital. She was on the staff and had teaching appointments at the City College Educational Clinic, and was Instructor in Psychiatry at Columbia University, Consultant to the Student Advisors to the Jewish Theological Seminary, Senior Psychiatrist to the Foster Home Department, Faculty Member of the William Alanson White Institute.
She was also a devoted mother and wife. Her oldest son chose the profession of his parents and became a physician; her second son is studying zoology and her daughter is teaching remedial reading. For the last two years, Lillian Kaplan put up an heroic fight against a fatally spreading cancer. When her wish to see her three children married was fulfilled, she seemed to slip out of life with quiet dignity. It is a great loss for many of us who knew her personally and for the profession.