Alumnus, Here for Class of '50 Reunion, Dies in Eliot House of Heart Attack

A visiting member of the Class of '50 died of a heart attack early Monday morning in Eliot House.

Dr. Ivan T. Vasey, who was 49, suffered the heart attack while in the room where he was staying for the 25th reunion of his graduating class.

He and his wife had arrived in Cambridge only 12 hours earlier. The Harvard University police reported that Vasey had a long history of heart trouble.

Monday Morning

The University police were remmoned to Vasey's soon at 1 a.m. Monday, Captain George L. Walsh said yesterday. He said that they drove him to Cambridge Hospital, where he died.

Vasey is survived by his wife, Sarah, and four young children.

Vasey lived in New Haven, Conn, where he was clinical associate professor at the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicines.

Vasey changed positions repeatedly during the first 20 years of his medical career. That interval in his life included a diverce from his first wife and separation from three children.

In the 25th Anniversary Report of the Class of '50, he described these years as an "artless." feverish rush going somewhere but, in retrospect, nowhere in an effort to realize my ambition."

He wrote that his move from a position in Syracuse, N.Y., to Yale in 1968 was a "very questionable action" because it reflected the orientation of this restless period.

Eventually, he said, he turned to graphic art for relief and subsequently held several shows in upstate New York