Dr. Anne E. Dyson Mourned

Philanthropist and former Schenectady County Health Commissioner Dr. Anne E. Dyson died Sept. 21 in Millbrook, N.Y., as the result of breast cancer. She was 52.

Born in White Plains, she was educated at New York University and received her medical degree from New York Medical College in 1977. She moved to Schenectady in September 1990, when her former husband, Roger H. Hull, assumed the presidency of Union College. She served on the pediatrics staff at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady and was medical director of the county public health department before becoming commissioner of the public health services agency in 1992.

Since 1979, she served as president and director of the Dyson Foundation, a family philanthropy established in 1957 by her parents, Margaret and Charles Dyson. The foundation focused on improving the life opportunities of young children across the country. She was chairwoman of the board of directors of the Hole in the Wall Gang Fund, Paul Newman's camp for children who have cancer and life-threatening blood disorders. She also served on the boards of the Joan and Sanford J. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corp., an international multi-industry holding company founded by her father in 1954.

Survivors include her husband, Michael S. Kramer, managing editor of the New York Daily News; two sons, Roberto and Mac Hull; a stepson, Ben Kramer, of Millbrook; and three brothers, Robert, John, and Peter Dyson.