A former associate clinical professor of surgery at New York Hospital. For more than five decades, Dr. Abeloff performed general surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, where in 1971 he was named surgeon in charge of the surgical service. A graduate of Columbia College, Dr. Abeloff trained at Presbyterian and Lenox Hill hospitals and pursued postgraduate work in pathology and surgery at Freiburg and Frankfurt universities in Germany. He served in World War II in the U.S. Army Medical Corps as consulting surgeon to the Persian Gulf Command, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1950, he was decorated with the U.S. Army Legion of Merit. A loyal and active P&S alumnus, he was a long-time member of the alumni association's board of trustees, a class chairman, and former president (1956-57). In 1963, he was awarded the Alumni Federation medal for Distinguished Service to Columbia and in 1969, the P&S Alumni Association's Silver Medal for service to the school. In 1987, he officiated as honorary chairman of the P&S Alumni Reunion Weekend. Also an accomplished photographer, Dr. Abeloff had a one-man show of his work at the Camera Club of New York in 1979. Photo