Edmund S. Crelin Jr.
Edmund Slocum Crelin, Jr. Ph.D. D.Sc (1923–2004) was Professor of Anatomy at Yale University from 1968 to 1991. He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey on April 26, 1923, oldest son of Agatha Bublin Crelin and Edmund S. Crelin, Sr. He was valedictorian of the 1942 senior class at Red Bank High School. After brief service in the United States Navy SeaBees during World War II, he enrolled at Central College in Pella, Iowa where he received his B.A. cum laude in 1947, majoring in biology. He enrolled at Yale University and earned his Ph.D. from Yale University School of Medicine in 1951. Career Upon graduation from Yale, Crelin joined the School of Medicine faculty, became a Full Professor of Anatomy in 1968, served as department chairman from 1974 to 1984 and was awarded the honor of Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1991. Crelin was a member of the American Association of Anatomists, Sigma Xi, AAAS and AMA, served as associate editor of the Anatomical Record from 1968 to 1974 and was an editor for Gray's Anatomy Crelin helped establish the Physician Associates program at the Yale University School of Medicine. As chairman of the Human Growth and