Richard Charles Braun was born in St. Louis, MO., in 1930, to T.C. and Viola Braun. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Grinnell College in Iowa and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. At Grinnell College he met Gertrude "Trudy" Camp, and at Washington University he and she strengthened their friendship while she earned her nursing degree. They married in 1953.





