EDWARD STRONG RENDALL, M.D.

EDWARD STRONG RENDALL, M.D. BLUE HILL and ORONO Edward Strong Rendall, M.D., 85, died peacefully Dec. 1, 2006, with his son and daughter by his side at Dirigo Pines, his home in Orono. Ned was born July 27, 1921, in Philadelphia. He was the son of Frances Gualdo Rendall and James Hawley Rendall, a Presbyterian minister. He attended Exeter Academy, Princeton University and the University of Rochester Medical School and interned at the Philadelphia General Hospital in 1946 and 1947. He served a residency at Rochester for the next two years, with the second year as chief resident. After his residency, he spent an additional year at Rochester with specialty train-ing in internal medicine and hematology. Ned married Constance Barrett Walten in 1947. He served in the U.S. Army from 1950 to 1952 at Fort Belvoir, outside of Washington, D.C. He spent the next two decades in private practice in Winchester, Mass., and was a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School during a number of those years, which began a long relationship with the Massachusetts General Hospital. From 1976 to 1983, he served with the MIT Health Services. Ned and his wife, Connie, and their twins, Heidi and David, born in 1949, summered in Maine since the mid-1950s, first in Boothbay Harbor and then Blue Hill. They moved permanently to Blue Hill in 1984 and for three years, he worked as a staff physician in student health with George W. Wood III, M.D., director of the University of Maine Health Services in Orono. He was active in many community affairs. He served as a member of the Board of the Natural Resources Council of Maine in Augusta. Ned was a chairman of the Blue Hill Hospital Board of Directors and that of the Island Nursing Home, Deer Isle. He served on the Maine Coast Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees in Ellsworth since 1999, and was recently very instrumental in helping to effect a working relationship between Maine Coast Memorial Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Ned was a deacon of the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill. Ned loved sailing, outdoor gardening and work and was at one time commodore of the Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club, East Blue Hill. He was also active in the Blue Hill Country Club for a number of years, serving as president for several of them. When Ned sold his house on Blue Hill Bay, he retained a small cottage for a few years, where he enjoyed summers while spending his winters in Orono. Ned was known in the whole area for his concern and ability in helping his neighbors and others with the medical problems. He took countless ill people to Massachusetts General Hospital for specialized treatment, with the hearty approval of their personal physicians. As a retired physician, he counseled and just talked to others with an unusual degree of empathy and comfort. Ned is survived by his daughter, Heidi Strong Rendall, M.D., of Whidby Island, Wash.; his son, David Strong Rendall, PAC and his wife, Judith, of Durham, N.C.; a brother, James Rendall and wife, Laura, of Newtown, Pa.; brother-in-law, roommate through the school and college years, and lifelong friend, Alfred Kelley Bates, M.D. of Center Sandwich, N.H. Ned was predeceased by his wife, Constance in 1998; and his sister, Frances Gualdo Bates in 2005. A service for Ned Rendall will be held 1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, at the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill, Main Street, Blue Hill, with a reception for family and friends to be held after in the fellowship hall below. Another reception will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, in the Kenduskeag Parlor, Dirigo Pines, Orono. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill, P.O. Box 444, Blue Hill, ME 04614; the Maine Coast Healthcare Foundation, 50 Union St., Ellsworth, ME 04605; or Natural Resources Defense Council, 40 West 20th St., New York, NY 10011.