Class Notes School of Medicine Alumni (Names are listed chronologically by year of medical school graduation and alphabetically by name within each year.)
The School of Medicine's 1993-1994 donor report unearthed some fond Emory memories for W.K. Purks, 26C, 29M, of Vicksburg, Miss. "I noticed with interest the comment about the 'Dr. J.E. Paullin' scholarship fund," he wrote.
"The fund started at $17,000 and is now valued at a million dollars or more. I had the good fortune to be in Dr. Paullin's classes prior to my graduation in 1929. His intense enthusiasm and dedication to first-class medicine stimulated me to seek a career in internal medicine. With the proper certification and five years of postgraduate study, I practiced until 1980, retiring at age 75." Since retiring, Dr. Purks has kept active by serving as president of the Vicksburg Hospital Medical Foundation and in that capacity has had a good bit of firsthand experience in seeing the benefit of carefully nurtured and administered funds: The Vicksburg Foundation has been a generous donor, to Emory and other institutions, enabling many deserving students to receive a quality medical education.
Dr. Purks, who turned 91 in September, lives alone with the help of an able housekeeper, and says his health has actually improved over the past few years. He recently read On Doctoring (co-edited by Dr. John Stone, associate dean and director of admissions for the School of Medicine) and received a visit from his son, Robert K. Purks, 60C, a retired CIA employee living in Washington, D.C.
"I am, of course, proud of Emory Medical School," he wrote, "which continues to press for excellence as did Dr. Paullin." And another reason he remembers Emory fondly: His brother, J. Harris Purks, served for many years here as professor of physics and dean of the College, and, for a brief time, as dean of the Graduate School.
"You know, I don't feel all that old," said Marion W. Hester, 35M, when reached recently at his Lakeland, Fla., home. "I'm 83, but I still cut my own wood, do my own yard work, and get around as much as ever." Still, he admits, the Class of 1935 must be getting on up there: At a recent 60th anniversary reunion held in Atlanta, only five fellow classmates were able to attend.
"Well, Tony Martin [35M] could have made it six," he said. "He lives close to me, in Sarasota, Fla., but when I tried to get him to join me for the reunion, he said he wasn't going anywhere that was north of Bradenton! But Tony is a good guy. He's a urologist and served, as I did, in the European Theater during World War II. Actually, we served in the same hospital in Italy."
After finishing his residency at Grady Hospital in 1942, Dr. Hester served three years in the Army and then opened an ophthalmology practice in Lakeland that he maintained for 45 years, until his retirement in 1990. "I'd still be at it today if not for all those Medicare forms," he said. "Practicing medicine in Lakeland all those years was just a joy, the most fun I have ever had."
Robert W. Pocotte, 31G, 37M, of Toledo, Ohio, would have been a member of the Class of 1935, but he took two years off in the middle of medical school to earn money to pay for the rest of his medical education. Work was difficult to find, of course, during those Depression years, but he was able to get regular summer employment on the old iron ore and oil barges that used to traverse the Great Lakes. He worked as a wheelsman on those barges, a trade he learned from his father and grandfather.
Dr. Pocotte retired eight years ago, at age 80, after a 50-year practice that included service during World War II in Italy and North Africa. Today, he reports, "I am living happily in retirement and still grateful to Emory for the help it gave me to fulfill my lifelong ambition: to practice medicine!" In particular, he remembers the assistance of Emory's medical school admissions staff, who readmitted him after his two-year hiatus and "helped me get every type of loan I was qualified for," he says. "Of course, I repaid those loans as soon after graduation as possible, but they were a tremendous help to me at the time."
John H. Ridley, 39M, clinical professor emeritus at Emory and a prominent Atlanta gynecologic surgeon for 50 years, has created the Robin Ridley Bradley Education Fund at Piedmont Hospital in honor of his daughter, a graduate of Piedmont's nursing school.
Dr. Ridley considers himself lucky to still have a daughter: In a devastating boat accident on a lake near LaGrange, Ga., in 1992, his grandson, 14-year-old Bryan, was skiing behind the powerboat his mother was driving. As she maneuvered a turn, the boat capsized and she was thrown out and under the boat's propeller, which severely gashed her left arm, leg, and hip. Bryan swam to his mother and helped her ashore, then managed to crawl onto a tree limb and switch off the ignition of the still-running boat. With the nearest telephone a quarter-mile across the lake, Bryan swam the distance to call 911 and swam back to attend to his mother, who was bleeding profusely; he then swam back across the lake to direct paramedics to the scene, which was accessible only by boat. Bryan, now 18 and a freshman at Charleston College, received a proclamation from Governor Zell Miller in recognition of his heroic actions in saving his mother's life.
Robin, a single parent of two sons, has since undergone eight operations to repair bone, nerve, muscle, and tendon damage, says her father. "Her rehabilitation has been progressing beautifully, and she was able to return to nursing work within a year of the accident."
William B. Fackler, Jr., 42C, 44M, of LaGrange, Ga., retired in July 1995-for three days. Then he discovered that one of the satellites of the Clark-Holder Clinic (with which he had been associated for 45 years) had been left shorthanded by the retirement of one of its physicians. So Dr. Fackler, an internist specializing in noninvasive cardiology, dusted off the old black bag and returned to work.
"It's a temporary, part-time arrangement," he says, "that's lasted a year now. It's tough to find young physicians who are interested in practicing in such a small, rural market." He expects that for at least the next year or two he will continue to provide "cardiology a la carte," as he puts it, at the small walk-in clinic in Franklin, Ga. And then maybe give that retirement thing another try. Dr. Fackler's dedication to his profession has not gone unacknowledged. In 1994 he was awarded the American Heart Association's Time, Feeling, and Focus Award, the highest honor the organization bestows on its volunteers. He was the first Georgian to receive the award.
He has also earned his stripes as a member of the Emory medical family-literally. His grandson,William Keith Fackler, 95M, is now completing his residency at Emory University Hospital; Keith's wife, Sondralyn McCard Fackler, 96M, is beginning her postdoctorate training in the fall. His daughter, Jane, a graduate of Emory's nursing school, works in the cardiology/intensive care unit of Emory University Hospital.
M. Dexter Clayton, Jr., 43C, 45M, of Tampa, Fla., has retired after practicing medicine for nearly 50 years; 12 of those were spent in partnership with his son, M. Dexter Clayton III, 67Ox, 69C.
A. Cullen Richardson, 43C, 45M, of Atlanta, received the 1994 Distinguished Service Award from that other ACOG, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The award, ACOG's highest honor, recognized Dr. Richardson's distinguished 40-year career as well as his anatomical research as it relates to gynecologic surgery.
Ernest L. Abernathy, 42C, 46M, of Washington, Penn., a pathologist and director of the laboratory at Washington Hospital for nearly 30 years, received an honorary doctor of science degree from Washington and Jefferson College at its 196th commencement exercises in May 1995. Dr. Abernathy has also served for more than 30 years as chief deputy coroner and forensic pathologist for Washington County.
West B. Magnon, 45C, 48M, of Bradenton, Fla., is a psychiatrist in private practice.
Sidney L. Sellers III, 50C, 53M, is a gynecologist associated with North Georgia Family Physicians in Dalton, where he lives with his wife, Nickie.
Robert B. Smith III, 54C, 57M, head of general vascular surgery and medical director of Emory University Hospital, began serving a year-long term in June as president of the North American Chapter of the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery. The ISCS is the largest specialty organization in vascular surgery. Dr. Smith follows in the footsteps of former Emory Clinic director Dr. Garland Perdue, 48C, 52M, who, nine years ago, was the most recent Emory faculty member to hold this office.
Donald W. Bidwell, 58M, of Seneca Falls, N.Y., retired in the fall of 1995 from practice radiology and general medicine practice. He also recently completed 35 years of military service. Dr. Bidwell is an accomplished pianist, an amateur astronomer, and a collector of New Age music.
James D. Forbes, 55C, 59M, of Clewiston, Fla., "is a rarity: a country doctor. For more than 30 years, he's seen patients everywhere from sugar fields to tribal reservations."
So reads the lead-in to "Dr. Forbes' Old-Time Medicine," a feature that appeared in the Aug. 6, 1995, issue of Florida Magazine. "I joined two other doctors in Clewiston," Dr. Forbes is quoted as saying, recalling his arrival in 1964, at age 31, to the small town on the southern rim of Lake Okeechobee. "They said they'd bring me along nice and slow. See how things went.
"Well, I got here the first of November and worked with these guys about ten days. The second weekend was the opening of hunting season, and they said, 'Jim, you've done real well. We think you can probably handle it on your own.'
"That weekend I delivered nine babies, treated two gunshot wounds, pinned a dislocated elbow, and admitted about 20 people to the hospital with pneumonia. That's how it started, and it's been the same ever since."
It's been a challenging practice, he says; in such small towns specialists are rare, so over the years Dr. Forbes has filled in as a surgeon, pediatrician, oncologist, emergency medicine physician-and friend. His service has not gone unnoted: In 1990 both Dr. Forbes and his wife, Janice, 57C, were recognized as "Citizens of the Year" by Clewiston, and in 1993 the town's Sugar Festival was dedicated in his honor.
Jerald L. Watts, 59M, of Osburn, Idaho, is an orthopaedic surgeon and chief of staff at Shoshone Medical Center in Kellogg, Idaho.
Jay D. Williams, Jr., 55C, 59M, retired in January 1995 from his internal medicine and pulmonology practice at the Medical Center Clinic in Pensacola, Fla. He had been associated with that clinic for 30 years. He plans to continue his practice of aviation medicine as well as the practice of health law. (He has been a member of the State Bar of Alabama since 1988.)
John P. Syribeys, 56C, 60M, of Atlanta, has been promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the Georgia National Guard. State Air Surgeon for the 3,300-member Georgia Air National Guard, Dr. Syribeys has received the Legion of Merit and the Georgia Meritorious Service medals in honor of his distinguished 35-year career with the National Guard.
Paul C. White, Jr., 60M, of Albany, Ga., received the Medical Association of Georgia's Distinguished Service Award in 1995 in recognition of his leadership during the 1994 floods in South Georgia. In addition to coming out of retirement as Southwest Georgia's district health director to help set up emergency medical care shelters in flood-devastated areas, Dr. White was also recognized for the significant medical contributions he has made in the areas of cardiovascular health, reduction of infant mortality, and facilitation of HIV/AIDS care in rural Georgia. His efforts have been studied by the CDC as a model for community-based health planning.
Charles B. Gillespie, 57C, 61M, an orthopaedic surgeon from Albany, Ga., was the 1995 winner of the Hardman Cup from the Medical Association of Georgia. The award recognized Dr. Gillespie's central role, during his nine years as chairman of the state's Emergency Health Advisory Council, in transforming Georgia's emergency medical response system from a "you call, we haul" sideline of funeral home operators to a nationally recognized, state-of-the-art transportation system.
Cecil B. Wilson, 57C, 61M, an internist in Winter Park, Fla., has been elected to the board of trustees of the American Society of Internal Medicine.
Donald W. Paty, 58C, 62M, professor and head of neurology at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital, continues to receive international acclaim for his research into multiple sclerosis. This year, he was asked to give the annual Allison Memorial Lecture to the Irish Neurological Association in Belfast, as well as the Charcot Lecture sponsored by the International Charcot Foundation. In 1995, he won the John Dystel Prize from the American Academy of Neurology and the National MS Society, the Charcot Award from the International Federation of MS Societies, and the Sir Richard Cave Award from the MS Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Dr. Paty's connections to Emory go back to his childhood: His father was R. Morris Paty, 23M, who served during World War II as associate dean of Emory's School of Medicine and as chief of surgery. Alumni of the World War II era will recall that during those years much of Emory's medical faculty was pressed into foreign service as members of the 43rd General Hospital, the Emory Unit. The elder Dr. Paty and his wife were Methodist medical missionaries in China (where Don was born). At the outbreak of the war, they were summoned to Atlanta, where the elder Paty assisted Dean Eugene Stead in keeping Emory's School of Medicine open during those lean war years.
The son inherited some of his father's wanderlust and spirit of volunteerism: Don joined the Peace Corps in 1964 as a doctor in the US Public Health Service, serving in Borneo and Malaysia. Following a neurology residency at Grady Memorial Hospital in 1970, he went to Newcastle, England, to begin his research into multiple sclerosis. Two years later, he joined the neurology faculty of the University of Western Ontario.
His research over the past quarter of a century has placed him among the front ranks of MS investigators, particularly in regard to his pioneering work in using MRI scans to evaluate the course and progression of the disease. He was among the first to show that MS can be a much more active disease than previously suspected, with lesions appearing and disappearing on MRI more rapidly than changes evidenced in clinical signs and symptoms. The author of more than 350 publications and a member of numerous professional societies, editorial boards, and boards of directors, Dr. Paty has been cited in both Who's Who of America and Who's Who of Canada.
William Z. Bridges, 60C, 63M, an ophthalmologist with the Thomasville Regional Eye Center in Thomasville, Ga., was named 1996 Alumnus of the Year by the Emory Eye Alumni Association. Dr. Bridges, a past president of the association, has been a driving force in Emory's development of a major academic eye center, according to Eye Center Director Thomas Aaberg. And his commitment to Emory has extended into the second generation of the Bridges family: His son, Zack Bridges, 91M, completed his ophthalmology residency here and currently is working on a retinal fellowship at the Emory Eye Center.
J. Paul Ferguson, 59C, 63M, president and CEO of the Harbin Clinic in Rome, Ga., served as the 1994-1995 president of the Neurosurgical Society of America. Dr. Ferguson, who has been with the Harbin Clinic since 1976, also serves on the board of directors of First Union Bank of Georgia and the board of trustees of Berry College.
Donald P. Gallup, 63M, of Augusta, chief of the section of gynecologic oncology at the Medical College of Georgia, has been elected to the Society of Pelvic Surgeons. A former flight surgeon, he came to MCG in 1984 and was named section chief in 1988.
W. Douglas Skelton, 63M, dean of the School of Medicine at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., took on new duties in July as senior vice president for health and research for that institution. He retains his responsibilities as dean but assumes new obligations for leading Mercer's growing research office.
H. Kenneth Walker, 56Ox, 58C, 63M, professor of medicine at Emory, received the 1996 Evangeline T. Papageorge Teaching Award at the School of Medicine's commencement exercises in May (see page 46). This award is the school's highest recognition of teaching excellence. In August 1995, Dr. Walker concluded a year-long appointment as chair of the board of regents of the National Library of Medicine. The board serves as an advisory body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and to the Director of the National Library of Medicine.
James R. Fowler, 57Ox, 64M, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and long-time staff member of St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City, has been named Surgeon General for Reserve Affairs by the US Navy. Dr. Fowler, who was commissioned as a Navy officer in 1959, serves as a Rear Admiral Upper Half in the Navy Medical Corps and is a former naval flight surgeon who flew 120 medical evacuation missions in Vietnam. Although his current duties require him to spend about one third of his time in Washington, D.C., he still maintains a practice in Salt Lake City, specializing in surgery of the hand and upper extremities.
H. Jack Baskin, 65M, of Orlando, Fla.,was elected in 1995 to a second term as vice president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Dr. Baskin practices at the Thyroid and Endocrine Clinic in Orlando and is past president of the Florida Endocrine Society.
F. Blanton Bessinger, Jr., 65M, of St. Paul, Minn., was named to the executive team at Children's Health Care, where he serves as vice president of medical affairs. A pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Bessinger has been affiliated with CHC for 17 years.
Frank M. Houser, Jr., 62C, 65M, of Atlanta, is president of the Georgia division of the Columbia/HCA Healthcare hospital chain. Dr. Houser, who had previously directed the Georgia public health system and served as medical director of external operations for The Emory Clinic, oversees 12 Columbia/HCA hospitals in Georgia, including eight in metro Atlanta.
Turner I. Ball, Jr., 62C, 66M, of Atlanta, has been named as a fellow of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Ball practices at Egleston Children's Hospital at Emory.
Clarence (Buck) H. Brown III, 62C, 66M, of Orlando, Fla., is vice president for medical affairs and medical director of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Orlando.
Isadore M. Pike, 63C, 67M, of Plainsboro, N.J., is vice president for medical affairs for the Bristol-Myers Squibb oncology division.
Robert R. M. Gifford, 69M, of Columbia, S.C., is chairman of the department of surgery at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
Michael P. Born, 67C, 71M, of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., has been named chair of the gynecology section of the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville. He joined the staff there in January 1995 after 17 years in private practice. Dr. Born is married to the former Donna Knowles, 68C, 71G.
Philip W. Susann, 71M, of Erie, Penn., recently completed a term as president of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.
Robert L. Ross, 72M, of Santa Monica, Calif., was awarded a PhD in psychoanalysis in June 1995 from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. The only practicing black psychoanalyst in Southern California, Dr. Ross teaches at the Institute and UCLA School of Medicine; he maintains a private practice in psychiatry as well.
Donald D. Gold, Jr., 74M, has changed jobs. Formerly medical director of the Dayton Mental Health Center in Dayton, Ohio, he is now clinical director of the Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Marcus L. Black, 75M, of Metaire, La., was featured in the August 1995 New Orleans magazine cover story entitled "Top Doctors." Dr. Black was interviewed about the pressures and rewards of working in oncology.
"I have always thought that the day I couldn't cry is the day I will no longer be an oncologist," he is quoted as saying. "That day hasn't come, and I do care so much that often I have to tell myself to go home in the evening. . . . It is a tough thing to walk away for any length of time."
But, he goes on to say, it is crucial for a physician to find ways to step outside of his job. "The totally consumed, totally dedicated physician is a nice role model," he says, "but if you burn yourself out when you're 49 or 50, when you could have kept practicing another 10, 15, or 20 years, did you really do good?" To achieve his own healthy balance of work and relaxation, Dr. Black relies on support from his family (he has been married for 24 years and has two teenage children), from his decade-long study of White Crane kung fu, and from a burgeoning interest in paleontology.
Richard Panico, 75M, of Athens, Ga., is an accomplished potter who works primarily with red clay that is indigenous to Madison County. In a letter to Dr. John Stone, associate dean of the medical school, he offered details about his unusual technique.
"A flowerpot maker, Chester Hewell, from a venerable pottery line, digs this clay in a farmer's field and runs over it a few times with his tractor to get the lumps out. I mix it with builder's sand, crushed mica, and a few 'secret' ingredients and let it sit at least a year. It's hard to find unprocessed clay anymore; of course, it's the prettiest."
Up until 1990, Dr. Panico had been making strictly wheel-thrown pots, influenced by ancient Chinese forms, glazes, and firing techniques, until an illness prevented him from continuing with the labor-intensive work for a considerable time. It was a forced break he calls "propitious." "During my convalescence," he says, "I discovered a piece of a small neolithic pinch pot, a hawk effigy bowl. I was struck with the power of such a simple handmade object and with the amount and quality of the information it evoked. I began playing with new techniques and surfaces but have not yet made a pot that even approaches the work of my neolithic friend."
Richard C. Rose III, 75M, of Knoxville, Tenn., has been awarded membership in the American College of Physician Executives, an educational and professional organization for physicians in medical management. Dr. Rose serves as medical director for the Fort Sanders Health System in Knoxville, where he specializes in internal medicine and infectious diseases.
Priscilla R. Strom, 76M, a general surgeon living in Gainesville, Ga., is on the medical staff of Lanier Regional Park Hospital.
BORN: To Stephen D. Clift, 78M, and Barbara Bence Clift of Lakewood, Wash., their second child, a son, Andrew Houston, on Jan. 16, 1995.
Frank D. Stegall, Sr., 66C, 78M, a cardiologist from Rome, Ga., was one of three business leaders elected last year to the board of directors of 1st Floyd Bank in Rome. Dr. Stegall, chair of the Southeastern Cardiovascular Institute, is also a member of the Harbin Clinic's board of directors.
Davis A. Lantz, 79M, of Vacaville, Calif., was recently named Governor for the Air Force in the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Lantz, chief of cardiology at David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, is married to the former Elizabeth Kramarich, 77N. The Lantzes have three children, two daughters and a son.
Ronald A. Paynter, 75C, 79M, of Long Beach, N.Y., has been awarded membership in the American College of Physician Executives, an educational and professional organization for physicians in medical management. Dr. Paynter is vice president for medical affairs at Brookhaven Memorial Medical Center in East Patchogue, N.Y.
Mallory G. Smith, 79M, has been promoted from associate director to director of the family practice residency program at Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Ga. Dr. Smith was in private practice in Rome for several years before joining the residency faculty in 1984.
Dwana M. Bush, 76C, 80M, of Atlanta, was named in a survey by Atlanta Magazine as a doctor other medical personnel would choose to care for them.
It is a high compliment for Dr. Bush, who says she has long wrestled with the complexities of providing quality health care at the grass-roots level. In order to preserve her principles of care, she has intentionally limited her practice-and her income-by serving just one network. Spending more time with patients may tilt the practice's balance sheets in the wrong way, she says, but she doesn't plan to change a thing: "Patients come first. They're my boss."
Louis H. Guernsey, Jr., 80M, of Wynnewood, Penn., is employed by Thomas Jefferson University College of Medicine in pediatric pulmonary and critical care medicine.
James M. Noel, Jr., 75C, 80M, of Tacoma, Wash., is a pediatric gastroenterologist at the Madigan Army Medical Center.
Mary Clance, 76C, 81M, of Mitchellville, Md., has joined the infectious disease staff of Patuxent Medical Group in Annapolis.
Stephen D. Mallary, 81M, has returned to his hometown of Macon, Ga., to join the Psychiatric Center group practice. He and his wife, Karen, have a 3-year-old daughter, Hayley.
Douglas M. Brandt, 82M, of Simpsonville, S.C., is medical director of Chestnut Hill Psychiatric Hospital in Greenville. He and his wife, Catherine, have one daughter, Sarah Margaret, who turned 4 in April.
Charles L. Clifton, Jr., 76Ox, 78C, 82M, of Alpharetta., Ga., is chief of anesthesia and president of the medical staff at Decatur Hospital and a staff anesthesiologist at DeKalb Medical Center. He and his wife, Bonnie Ferrell Clifton, 80Ox, 82C, celebrated the birth of their second son, William Ferrell Clifton, on Aug. 12, 1994.
Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, 83M, an Atlanta internist, is presently serving a three-year term as a regent of the American College of Physicians. She is the youngest person ever elected to that post.
Frederick V. Miller, 83M, of Coral Springs, Fla., is a newly elected member of the American College of Physician Executives, an educational and professional organization for physicians in medical management. Dr. Miller is medical director of neonatal intensive care and newborn services for Pediatrix Medical Group in Ft. Lauderdale.
Jeffrey B. Neustadt, 83M, of St. Petersburg, Fla., has been inducted as a fellow in three professional societies: the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, and the Scoliosis Research Society.
Carl C. Askren, 84M, a plastic surgeon living in Fresno, is on the clinical faculty of the University of California-Fresno. He and his wife, Karen Ashe-Askren, 82AH, have two children, a boy and a girl.
Mary H. Branton, 84M, practices internal medicine and nephrology at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.
Pierpont F. Brown, 78Ox, 80C, 84M, of Gainesville, Ga., practices at Northwest Georgia Medical Center and Lanier Park Hospital in Gainesville and was recently named to the board of directors of Bank South in Hall County. He and his wife, Clarissa, have two daughters, Parrish, 4, and Logan, 2.
BORN: To Harlan E. Pettit, 84M, and Vicki Davis Pettit, of Cocoa Beach, Fla., a fourth child and third son, Michael Craig, on March 29, 1995. Dr. Pettit, an anesthesiologist in private practice, has joined the staff at Cape Canaveral Hospital and has completed requirements for board certification in his specialty. He also sits on the board of the Brevard County Medical Society and has been designated a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiologists.
Edward M. Racht, 80C, 84M, of Austin, Texas, has been appointed as medical director of that city's emergency medical services.
Neil Skolnik, 84M, of Jenkintown, Penn., recently published On the Ledge: A Doctor's Stories from the Inner City, a series of essays detailing two years that he spent providing medical care to the urban poor in Philadelphia. The book is a candid account of Dr. Skolnik's frustration with caring for patients who seem unwilling or unable to care for themselves, and his satisfaction at seeing patients take charge of their health and their lives.
Leslie McFann Tenaro, 77C, 80G, 84M, of Houston, Texas, has transferred from active duty to the US Naval Reserve. She is now employed as a staff dermatologist by McGregor Medical Association in Houston.
Jennifer Hardin, 85M, of Philadelphia, has been promoted to director of clinical research and development, gastroenterology, for Janssen Research Foundation.
Doug Katsev, 85M, has been known to go to great lengths to provide eye care to the needy-like all the way to Mexico, Guyana, China, Lithuania, and Brazil. These global forays have come as part of his volunteerism with Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International, a nonprofit group that recruits and deploys ophthalmologists throughout the developing world to provide free, sight-restoring operations. In this capacity, Dr. Katsev travels the world at his own expense to treat indigent patients who might otherwise remain in darkness.
"Tragically, an estimated 20 million people in the world are blind only because they can't afford medical care or don't have access to a doctor," says Dr. Katsev, who also maintains a busy ophthalmology practice at the Santa Barbara Medical Foundation. A corneal transplant specialist, he has performed this procedure for the first time in some of the towns he has visited and is occasionally assisted by his wife, Nina Gottschalk Katsev, 85AH, a physician's assistant and optometrist. (The Katsevs have two daughters: Cailyn, 6, and Kiki, 3.)
Dr. Katsev has also, for the past five years, traveled with a group sponsored by his local Rotary club to Celaya, Mexico, to perform surgical procedures and offer educational and technical support to local doctors. This past March the group took along a little something extra: $75,000 raised from Rotary contributions that will help start an independent eye and cleft palate clinic in the town. Some of his international experiences are unforgettable, Dr. Katsev says: a blind woman he treated at a clinic in the Guyana jungle, for instance, who "was led by her son to the operating room. Two hours after her operation, I removed her eye patch. For the first time in five years, she could see her son. She hugged me and began to cry. She said her life had new meaning. It gave me a feeling that money can't buy."
It's a feeling that's available to all who volunteer, says Dr. Katsev, who encourages interested Emory alumni to call the organization at 1-800-20-TO-SEE.
Laura Brooks Kezar, 85M, of Birmingham, has joined the UAB faculty in the department of rehabilitation medicine. She is married to Edwin P. Kezar, 75Ox, 77C, 80G, 84M.
Steven J. Levin, 85M, is clinical assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He and his wife, Ren˜e, have three sons and live in Kendall Park, N.J.
Laurie Sutor, 85M, of Dallas, Texas, is vice president for medical services at BloodCare.
Gary L. Bernstein, 82C, 86M, of Atlanta, has been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Bernstein is in private practice at Piedmont Hospital.
BORN: To Bill D. Chey, 86M, and Janine Zwiren Chey, 80Ox, 82C, 85AH, of Ann Arbor, Mich., their second child, a son, Russell David, on Oct. 17, 1995. Bill is a gastroenterologist at the University of Michigan.
BORN: To Gregory A. Foster, 86M, and Candace Corcoran Foster, of Seale, Ala., a daughter, Delaney Raines Chappell Foster, on June 23, 1995.
Kenneth D. Rothstein, 86M, of Southampton, Penn., is director of the Center for Liver Disease at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.
Major Jeffrey S. Sartin, 82C, 86M, and his wife, Susan K. Tarm, 85C, recently relocated to Landstuhl, Germany, where Dr. Sartin works as an Air Force physician. From October 1994 to January 1995, Dr. Sartin was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he assisted with providing medical care for more than 35,000 Cuban and Haitian migrants, as well as US troops, as part of Operation Sea Signal. As second-in-command of one of the two field hospitals there, he supervised the tuberculosis and AIDS treatment programs. His hobbies include reading, writing, cross-country running, and Italian cooking. He has written several articles on medical history topics and plans to do further research on Civil War medicine. He and his wife celebrated the birth of their fourth child, a daughter, Annelis Susan, on Feb. 8, 1995.
Ifor R. Williams, 85G, 86M, of Dedham, Mass., is assistant professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Williams, who is also director of the Transgenic Core Facility at the Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, received a Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation and the Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Research Award from the Kao Corporation of Japan, both in 1994. Dr. Williams and his wife, Julie, also announce the birth of their second son, Austin Heath, on Jan. 26, 1994.
Russell A. Flint, 83C, 87M, of Burnsville, N.C., is an orthopaedic surgeon in Spruce Pine; his wife, Alisa Kutchera Flint, 86B, 87MBA, is his office manager. The Flints celebrated the birth of their daughter, Rachel Anne, on Sept. 17, 1994.
Jesse C. Haggerty III, 87M/MPH, of Topeka, Kan., is director and public health officer for the Topeka-Shawnee County Health Agency, which has five sites of care and more than 200 employees. In 1992, Dr. Haggerty started the Family Medicine Residency Program of Topeka, a freestanding community-based program that graduated its first class this past June.
Carolyn E. Hart, 87M, of Huntersville, N.C., has bought an old farm and is converting it to a wildlife preserve. Dr. Hart practices pediatric neurology with Mecklenberg Neurology Associates in Charlotte.
David Rodriguez, 83C, 87M, of Atlanta, has been named a fellow of the American College of Physicians and chair of the primary care committee at Northside Hospital. He is married to the former Ramie C. Little, 85C, 90L.
BORN: To Patricia Anne Sidoway, 87M, and Lowell C. Steinberg, of Charlotte, N.C., a daughter, Lauren Molly Steinberg, on Sept. 16, 1995. Dr. Sidoway, a Woodruff Fellow at Emory, is a dermatologist.
D. Hal Silcox III, 81Ox, 83C, 87M, and Deborah Donaldson Silcox, of Decatur, Ga., have a two-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Ashford.
BORN: To Todd C. Brightbill, 84C, 88M, and Carole Cole Brightbill, of LaGrange, Ga., their second child, a daughter, Katherine Susan, on Jan. 4, 1995. The Brightbills moved to LaGrange in July 1995 following Todd's completion of a two-year neuroradiology fellowship at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. He now practices for Radiology Associates of West Georgia in LaGrange.
"Not many surgeons have the opportunity to practice in the hospital where they were born," says Gary L. Glick, 84C, 88M, of Miami Beach. He got his chance to do so in 1994, when he returned to his home community to join Unger, Bass, and Unger, a surgical practice which is affiliated with the same Mount Sinai Medical Center where little Gary Glick first saw the light of day. A general and vascular surgeon, Dr. Glick moved to Florida after completing a vascular fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. A few months later, he successfully completed the general surgery board certification process and is now a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery.
BORN: To Mindy I. Fine, 88M, and Dr. Gregg A. Bauer, 84C, of Atlanta, their second child, a daughter, Natalie Helene Bauer, on Sept. 22, 1995. Both parents completed residencies in gynecology-obstetrics at Emory in 1992 and are in private practice in Atlanta.
M. Louis Moss, 83C, 88M, of Chesapeake, Va., is assistant professor of neurology at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Ross A. Parks, 88M, of Longwood, Fla., has joined the Eye Institute of Central Florida. Dr. Parks and his wife, Lisa Michalore, were married in 1994.
Kenneth G. Taylor, 88M, moved back to Atlanta last year when he joined The Heart Clinic at Cobb General and Piedmont hospitals. He had previously served as assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University in Boston.
R. Scott Turner, 82G, 84G, 88M, has been named assistant professor of neurology at the University of Michigan. He recently completed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and will continue research into the basic and clinical aspects of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative and dementing disorders. Dr. Turner and his wife, Arlene, also announce the birth of their second child, a son, Alex Edmund, on Aug. 17, 1995. A daughter, Kathryn, was born in 1988.
MARRIED: Louis H. Weimer, 83C, 88M, and Cheryl Pruden, on April 8, 1995. Dr. Weimer is assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His wife is vice president of market research for MasterCard International.
W. Penn White III, 83C, 88M, and Lori Callis-White, 88M, have moved to Montgomery, Ala., where they have entered private practice in gastroenterology and internal medicine, respectively.
BORN: To Bryant E. Bigbee, 89M, and his wife, Alison, of Aloha, Ore., a daughter, Sarah Ann, on April 26, 1995.
J. Clay Copher, 89M, of Atlanta, has completed a fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at Georgia Baptist Medical Center. He is currently in private practice in general and laparoscopic surgery in Cumming, Ga.
Brian D. Hale, 85C, 89M, and Constance Meyer Hale, 87C, 91M, have relocated to Clearwater, Fla., in order to practice their respective specialities. Brian finished a urology residency at Emory in 1995; Constance completed her training in anesthesiology at Emory at the same time.
BORN: To Doris Mirowski, 89M, and Dana Bruce Greenblatt, MD, of Haverford, Conn., a daughter, Rachel Abigail, on Jan. 7, 1995. Dr. Mirowski is a psychiatrist.
Laurence S. Sperling, 85C, 89M. See entry for Sidney Barr Sperling, 85Ox, 91M.
Mark L. Wulkan, 85C, 89M, of Birmingham, Ala., is currently completing a pediatric surgery fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Alabama. Previously, he finished a general surgery residency in Miami and a pediatric surgery critical care fellowship in Pittsburgh.
Subodh K. Agrawai, 90M, of Winder, Ga., has opened a private cardiology practice, the Athens Heart Center, in Athens.
BORN: To Mark Alkass, 90M, and his wife, Dori, of Niantic, Conn., a son, Connor, on July 6, 1995. Dr. Alkass practices obstetrics-gynecology in Niantic.
Robert E. Frank, 90M, of Indianapolis, is completing a plastic surgery fellowship at Indiana University.
Mark A. Kassels, 86C, 90M. See entry for Allison Bennett Kassels, 87C, 91M.
Paul Smith, 82AH, 90M, of Toccoa, Ga., completed his surgical residency in 1995 and is now employed as a general surgeon with Toccoa Clinic Medical Associates.
BORN: To Mario R.L. Valenzuela, 90M, and Donna Jean Petty Valenzuela, 79N, of Decatur, Ga., a son, Stephen Neil, on Jan. 12, 1995. The maternal grandfather is Wesley Glenn Petty, 55M.
Ronald S. Weber, 90M, has entered ophthalmology practice in Daytona Beach, Fla.
David S. Cho, 91M, completed his anesthesiology residency at Oregon Health Sciences University and is now a staff anesthesiologist at St. Clair Hospital in Tacoma, Wash.
BORN: To G. Aric Giddens, 87C, 91M, and Andrea Giddens, of Memphis, a son, Dylan Powell, on Jan. 14, 1995.
Michael D. Graubert, 87C, 91M, of Brookline, Mass., is a fellow in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
Deborah Speier Heaney, 87C, 91M, has moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where she is working on a master of public health degree and completing a residency in occupational medicine at the University of Michigan. She married Ray Heaney on June 11, 1994.
Allison Bennett Kassels, 87C, 91M, and Mark A. Kassels, 86C, 90M, have moved to Birmingham, where Allison is a pediatric resident at Children's Hospital of Alabama and Mark has begun private practice in ophthalmology. The Kassels have two children: daughter Alexandra Constance, born Feb. 2, 1993; and son Nathan Adam, born April 29, 1994.
Pamela A. Ross, 91M, has joined the faculty at Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., as a fellow in pediatric emergency medicine. The hospital is affiliated with Georgetown University.
BORN: To Sidney Barr Sperling, 85Ox, 91M, and Laurence S. Sperling, 85C, 89M, of Atlanta, a son, Mathew Aaron, on Jan. 13, 1995.
Michele M. Burns, 87C, 92M, of Boston, is a pediatric fellow at Children's Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
BORN: To Ericka Wunderlich Crenshaw, 88C, 92M, and Greg Crenshaw, of Birmingham, a son, Benjamin Christopher, on May 1, 1995. Dr. Crenshaw is chief resident in pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Alabama.
Price M. Kloess, 92M, has settled with his family in Birmingham, Ala., after several moves with the military. He has joined Ophthalmology Associates, the oldest ophthalmology group in the city.
Jennifer L. Kraus, 88C, 92M, of New York City, is completing an infectious disease fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Her husband, Garet K. Piling, 88C, 92M, is a radiology resident at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J.
Jeffrey T. Kuvin, 92M, of Brookline, Mass., is chief resident in internal medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center.
Jack D. Owens, 92M, of Birmingham, is in the middle of a three-year neonatology fellowship at UAB, where he also completed his pediatric residency. He is married to Leslie K. Temple, 89Ox, 91C, who works as a scheduling coordinator for the plastic surgery clinic at UAB's Kirklin Clinic.
Michael H. Butler, 93M, is completing a cardiology fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He and Jennifer A. Hernandez, 89Ox, 91C, were married on June 4, 1994. Mrs. Butler is enrolled in law school.
Garet K. Piling, 88C, 92M. See entry for Jennifer L. Kraus, 88C, 92M.
BORN: To Steven D. Lenhard, 93M, and Wendy Eisner Lenhard, 89C, 94AH, of Decatur, Ga., a daughter, Julie Lauren, on June 16, 1995. Dr. Lenhard is an internal medicine resident at Emory.
Eugene Y. Rhee, 89C, 93M, is a urologic surgery resident with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group of Los Angeles.
Paul David Kellam, 94M, of Dublin, Ga., practices otolaryngology with Dublin Ear, Nose, and Throat Associates. He is married to Cheri Cooper, 91N.
Caroline Anderson Reich, 94M, 94G, of Atlanta, was one of 50 young medical professionals to receive an American Medical Association/Glaxo Achievement Award in 1995. The award recognizes exceptional leadership abilities in medicine or achievements in nonclinical activities. Dr. Reich, who is presently in the second year of a radiology residency at Emory, was a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Task Force on Teaching Research Ethics and also served on the NIH-Office of Research on Women's Health Task Force on Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of Women in Biomedical Careers. While completing her MD/PhD at Emory, she received the 1994 Dean's Award for Excellence in Service.
MARRIED: Stacy Stein, 86AH, 94M, and William Gryboski, 83B, on April 7, 1995.
Gregg A. Bauer, 84C (gynecology-obstetrics). See listing for Mindy I. Fine, 88M.
Rodrigo Cabezas (surgery), of Atlanta, has been elected secretary/treasurer of the Executive Committee of Northside Hospital.
Benjamin H. Cheek (gynecology-obstetrics), of Columbus, Ga., was recently installed as the 90th president of the Muscogee County Medical Society. Dr. Cheek is in private practice in Columbus.
Robert J. Del Pozo (psychiatry) is medical director of Georgia Highlands Mental Health Center in Dalton, Ga.
Carlos Del Rio (infectious diseases), of Mexico City, was reappointed last year as director of CONASIDA, Mexico's national AIDS commission. His wife, Jeannette Guarner, a pathologist, is division director for laboratory services of the National Cancer Institute in Mexico City.
Monica M. Farley (internal medicine), associate professor of medicine at Emory and a staff physician at Atlanta's VA Medical Center, was honored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City for outstanding achievement and service.
Carlos M. Franco-Garcia (hematology/ pediatrics), of Atlanta, is president of the Clinical Oncology Association of Georgia, chair of Northside Hospital's cancer committee, and a member of the American Society of Hematology.
Charles S. Hill (ophthalmology), of Decatur, Ga., recently took part in the dedication of more than $100,000 in medicine, medical equipment, and eyeglasses to the West Indian island of St. Lucia. Dr. Hill, one of only four black glaucoma specialists in the United States, visits the island regularly to donate equipment and to provide medical services. For his efforts, he was named in 1993 as the island's official health ambassador by St. Lucia's Minister of Health. In this role he enlists support from pharmaceutical, optical, and medical supply companies. Hundreds of St. Lucians, who would not otherwise receive care or supplies, have benefited from Dr. Hill's medical mission.
Chris Malone (thoracic surgery) is employed by Athens Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. He and his wife, Rosemary Davis Malone, 87N, have two children, a daughter and a son, and live in Athens, Ga.
Brian C. Organ (surgery), of Atlanta, a general surgeon practicing at Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University, was selected as the state's 1995 Young Surgeon of the Year by the Georgia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.
Rose Ann Rigby-Weaver (internal medicine), of Madison, Ga., has passed the certification boards for geriatric medicine. Her daughter, Amy, is a student at the Medical University of South Carolina.
James R. Roberson (orthopaedic surgery), associate professor and vice-chair of the department of orthopaedics at Emory, has been appointed to the US Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Test Material Development Committee for Surgery. The examination is designed to assess a physician's ability to apply knowledge, concepts, and principles that are important in providing safe and effective patient care.
Francisco L. Tellez (ophthalmology) of Cordova, Tenn., is practicing with the Eye Center of the Mid-South in Memphis.
Deaths: School of Medicine Alumni
Tom F. Davenport, Sr., 20M, of Atlanta, on July 23, 1995. A pioneering pediatrician whose work was often compared with Dr. Benjamin Spock's, Dr. Davenport was one of Atlanta's first physicians to specialize in the care of children. He maintained a practice from 1926 until his retirement in 1983. His son, Tom Davenport, Jr., of Baton Rouge, La., shared a typical story of his father's no-nonsense approach to his craft: An Atlanta matron, after hosting a bridge party, telephoned Dr. Davenport in a panic about her 8-year-old daughter, who was flush-faced, had fallen down on the carpet, and was laughing uncontrollably. Surely, the distraught mother insisted, the girl must be seriously ill. "Where have you been putting the unfinished drinks?" asked Dr. Davenport.
"Unfinished drinks? Hold on.... The maid says there aren't any. Just empty glasses on the kitchen counter."
The instant diagnosis: "That little lady is drunk!"
Sure enough, Dr. Davenport visited the Northside home, and an examination confirmed the girl was pickled. But it was the mother who bore the brunt of his lecture about how to safeguard against booze-snitching. That was his reputation, gruff with the mothers but gentle with the children. His theory was that kids are going to get into accidents no matter what you do and that parents just need to learn to keep a level head through it all.
During his career, in which he cared for an estimated 30,000 children, Dr. Davenport always prescribed a minimal amount of both medicine and coddling. But he was always available in an emergency and was something of an Atlanta legend for his practice of making Sunday house calls. He was both progressive and old-fashioned: treating black patients long before integration arrived but prescribing mustard plasters for chest colds right up to his retirement.
A longtime and regular donor to the School of Medicine who made his most recent gift just four months before his death, Dr. Davenport would have turned 100 last December. He was a member of the Atlanta Downtown Rotary Club, where he maintained perfect attendance for 43 years. In addition to his son, he is survived by five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Malcolm Neel, 22M, of Isle of Palms, S.C., on June 23, 1995. Dr. Neel, a retired epidemiologist, is survived by his wife, Martha.
John W. Harned, Jr., 22C, 24M, a retired ophthalmologist from Duluth, Ga., on Sept. 16, 1995. He was 94. Among his survivors is a daughter, Frances Wynn, 79B, of Duluth.
William B. Jones, Sr., 26M, of Beaufort, S.C., on March 4, 1995.
Walker L. Curtis, 26C, 28M, of Atlanta, on June 3, 1995. Dr. Curtis, 91, was the first physician to successfully treat a case of tularemia with the use of a sulfa drug and also the first to report a case of the screw-worm parasite, usually found in animals, in a human in Georgia. During World War II, Dr. Curtis served as a flight surgeon in the Army Air Corps. In 1966 he received the Aven Cup Citizenship Award from the Medical Association of Atlanta. Among his survivors is a daughter, Dr. Mary Curtis Tucker, 63G.
Joseph S. McMath, 28M, of Cincinnati, in 1994.
C.D. Stiles, Jr., 28M, a retired ophthalmologist from Baltimore, on April 21, 1995.
Harold J. Starr, 27C, 29M, of Chattanooga, Tenn., on March 17, 1995. Dr. Starr, class president his senior year at Emory, was born in Winder, Ga., in 1906 and completed his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C. When he came to Chattanooga in 1935 there were only six pediatricians in the entire city. During his 50 years of practice, he served as a member of his profession's leading organizations and on the staff of most local hospitals, including T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, where he was chief of staff. He actively participated in the house staff teaching program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Chattanooga and on his retirement in 1982 was appointed emeritus professor. After his retirement, he ran the Well Baby Clinic at T.C. Thompson and was chosen Tennessee State Pediatrician for 1987. Several of his survivors are Emory alumni, including a son, Kirk Starr, 71M, daughter-in-law Janie Hendrix Starr, 70C, granddaughter Laura Starr Edwards, 88C, and grandson-in-law James Edwards, 87B.
Maj. Gen. Douglas B. Kendrick, 28C, 31M, of Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 2, 1994, of heart failure. During his long and illustrious career, Gen. Kendrick served as commanding general of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., head of surgical research at Walter Reed, at the Mayo Clinic, and at various hospitals and universities in Tampa and Atlanta. He was 87.
During the early part of his Army career, he served as personal physician to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and was based along with MacArthur in occupied Japan. It was Lieut. Col. Kendrick who informed the media after the war that the general was in excellent health, contrary to reports circulating in Washington.
Subsequently, Gen. Kendrick became executive officer to the surgeon general and then surgical consulate for the US Army- Europe and commanding general of the Ninth Hospital Center in charge of all hospitals in Germany; ultimately, he was named chief surgeon in charge of 19 medical centers in Germany, France, and Italy.
Gen. Kendrick was at Walter Reed during his last two years of active Army service, and in 1966 led the surgical team that removed former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's gallbladder. Following his retirement after 33 years in the Army, he returned to Emory, where he served as associate dean of the School of Medicine and as the first medical director at Grady Memorial Hospital. He later was associate dean of the department of surgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. In 1992 he published Memoirs of a Twentieth-Century Surgeon, a chronicle of his medical and military career.
Gen. Kendrick was awarded the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster by Gen. MacArthur for his work with the 10th Army in Okinawa, the Bronze Star (Meritorious), and a number of other medals. He was a member of the AMA and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Among his survivors are Jean Lykes Kendrick, his wife of 14 years, and two Emory relatives: a nephew, Dr. Embry Mays Kendrick, Jr., 67C, and a cousin, Dr. Tinsley W. Rucker, 76M.
Francis T. Holland, 30C, 33M, a retired orthopaedic surgeon from Tallahassee, Fla., on June 9, 1995.
Joyce F. Mixon, Jr., 29C, 33M, of Valdosta, Ga., in October 1993.
William F. Etheridge, 34M, of Huntsville, Ala., on Dec. 19, 1994. He was 85.
James L. Jennings, 32C, 34M, a retired Atlanta physician specializing in eye, ear, nose, and throat ailments, on Jan. 21, 1995. Dr. Jennings, a veteran of World War II, died of Alzheimer's disease. He was 84.
Edmond W. Camp, Jr., 35M, of Goodsprings, Ala., in December 1994.
Charles E. Holloway, 34C, 36M, of Atlanta, on July 9, 1995, of complications following a stroke. Dr. Holloway, 83, served during World War II in the US Army Medical Corps and was honorably discharged as lieutenant colonel in 1946 after duty in the Southwest Pacific Theater. He received the Presidential Unit Citation.
Dr. Holloway opened a private general surgery practice in Atlanta in 1947; for many years he served as clinical professor and chief of surgery at Crawford Long Hospital. After retiring in 1984, he worked for the next decade as a consultant for the Social Security Administration.
Elvin P. Walker, 36M, of Wilmington, N.C., on June 22, 1994.
A. Elbert Adams, 33C, 37M, a surgeon from Greenwood, S.C., on Dec. 2, 1995.
Albert L. Evans, 37M, of Atlanta, on July 3, 1995. Dr. Evans, 80, interned at Grady Memorial Hospital and practiced surgery at Georgia Baptist Medical Center from 1945 until 1990. In 1991, Georgia Baptist established the Albert L. Evans, MD, Chair of Surgery in his honor. Dr. Evans served in the European Theater during World War II as a major in the Army Medical Corps. He is survived by five sons, three of whom went to Emory: Dr. John S. Evans, 73M; Dr. Leon L. Evans, 79M; and William P. Evans, 80L.
James G. McMillan, 38M, of Jasper, Tenn., on July 23, 1995. Dr. McMillan practiced internal medicine in Jasper for 50 years. Upon his retirement in 1991, the city of Jasper recognized his years of outstanding service to the community by naming a local park in his honor. Several of his survivors are Emory alumni: daughter Mary McMillan Driskell, 66C; son-in-law William C. Driskell, 65C, 69G; and granddaughter Mary-Margaret Houser Driskell, 94C.
Joseph B. Neighbors, Jr., 38M, of Athens, Ga., on Nov. 1, 1994. At age 12, "Bunny" Neighbors was the youngest Eagle Scout in the United States. Following service in the US Army during World War II, he opened an internal medicine and cardiology practice in Athens in 1946, which he maintained until 1978. He was 82.
George A. Niles, Jr., 35C, 38M, of Atlanta, on Aug. 19, 1995. A retired obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Niles, 81, had practiced at Piedmont Hospital for more than 40 years. He is survived by his wife, Jane Cleveland Niles, and three daughters.
Robert C. Orton, 38M, of Edmonds, Wash., on Jan. 29, 1996. Among his survivors is a son, Dr. John R. Orton, 71C.
Frank M. Parish, 35C, 38M, of Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 19, 1994, following a long illness. Dr. Parish, 81, practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Orlando for 48 years.
Tully T. Blalock, 39M, of Atlanta, on Nov. 6, 1994. Dr. Blalock, 80, was the former chief of the department of medicine at St. Joseph's Hospital and former chief of staff at West Paces Medical Center, both in Atlanta, and was a founding member of the Hospital Authority of Fulton County. A veteran of World War II, Dr. Blalock joined the Navy after completing his internship at Grady Hospital and was stationed at Pearl Harbor the day of the Japanese attack.
Dr. Blalock leaves behind a long legacy of volunteerism and public service. After retiring in 1985, he joined the volunteer attending faculty at Grady Hospital Outpatient Clinic and also did extensive volunteer medical missionary work in Kenya, Liberia, and Panama. He was a former president of the Georgia Baptist Fellowship and a life deacon at Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Jean Walker Blalock, 36C, 38G.
Ben R. Thebaut, 37C, 40M, of Dunwoody, Ga., on Jan. 26, 1996. Dr. Thebaut practiced general surgery in Atlanta for 40 years. Among his survivors are several Emory alumni: son Ben R. Thebaut, Jr., 59C, 63M; son Anthony L. Thebaut, 64M; and son Mark D. Thebaut, 73Ox, 75C, 79D.
Herbert D. Tyler, 40M, of Thomaston, Ga., on Dec. 24, 1994. Dr. Tyler, 79, had practiced medicine in Thomaston for 53 years.
J.W. Veatch, Jr., 34Ox, 36C, 40M, of Marietta, Ga., on Sept. 15, 1995. Dr. Veatch practiced surgery in Atlanta for 40 years and served as chief of surgery at both St. Joseph's and Crawford Long hospitals. After completing his residency at Grady Hospital-where he met his future bride, Mildred Jarrett, a Grady nurse-he served as a naval medical officer during World War II. From 1976 until his retirement in 1986, Dr. Veatch was clinical associate professor of surgery at Emory; he was also a former president of the Emory University Medical Alumni Association. He enjoyed raising cattle at the family's home place near Trion, called Cedar Creek, and was in the process of restoring an 1830s cabin there that was the birthplace of his father. Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, J.W. Veatch III, 74L, and a brother, Dr. Julian L. Veatch, 43Ox, 49C.
William C. Phillips, 37C, 41M, of Miami, on July 8, 1995.
J. Spalding Schroder, 41M, of Atlanta, on Nov. 15, 1994. Dr. Schroder, 77, was a retired founding partner of The Emory Clinic and was Emory University Hospital's former assistant chief of medical services. He was a colonel in the Army and served in the South Pacific in World War II. Dr. Schroder joined The Emory Clinic in 1949, eventually serving as chief of gastroenterology. He became a professor of medicine, specializing in digestive diseases, at Emory in 1967. Dr. Schroder, former section chair of the Southern Medical Association and fellow of the American College of Physicians, is survived by his wife, Van Spalding Schroder, and five children.
J. Dean Paschal, 38Ox, 41C, 43M, a retired pediatrician from Albany, Ga., on Feb. 5, 1995, of Alzheimer's disease.
Archie T. Coffee, Jr., 40Ox, 42C, 44M, of Charlotte, N.C., on March 18, 1995.
Lawrence V. Jowers, 44M, of Columbia, S.C., on Feb. 9, 1995. Dr. Jowers had practiced medicine in Columbia for 40 years.
Carl C. Jones, Jr., 43C, 45M, of Atlanta, on Feb. 4, 1995, at age 72. Following service in the US Navy, Dr. Jones established a medical practice in Atlanta in 1952. An active volunteer his entire professional career, Dr. Jones gave of his talents to the athletic department of his alma mater, Decatur High School, for 24 years, to the Boy Scouts of America for 35 years, and to the Cabbagetown Clinic for 19 years. His outstanding record of public service was acknowledged many times, most notably by the Medical Association of Atlanta, which presented him with its Aven Cup Award.
Thomas J. Anderson, Jr., 47M, of Atlanta, on Nov. 17, 1994, of cancer, at age 70. Dr. Anderson, a recent past president of the Medical Association of Georgia, began practicing internal medicine and gastroenterology in Atlanta in 1953 after serving for two years in the US Navy. In 1964 he served as president of the Fulton County Medical Society and chaired the committee to fluoridate Atlanta's water supply.
Samuel D. Gillespie, 45C, 47M, of Cantonment, Fla., on Jan. 6, 1995. Dr. Gillespie practiced urology in the Pensacola area for 30 years prior to his retirement in 1984. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a diplomate of the American Board of Urology, and a member of many state and national medical organizations. A veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, Dr. Gillespie is survived by his wife, Maxine, and three children. "Emory was very near and dear to my husband," Mrs. Gillespie wrote in her announcement of his passing. "He enjoyed his days there and relived them a lot before he died."
William J. Dean, 45C, 48M, of Highlands, N.C., on Oct. 30, 1995.
E. Fred Campbell, 49M, of Montgomery, Ala., on Oct. 17, 1994.
John W. Kelley, 49M, of Griffin, Ga., on Dec. 5, 1995. He was 71.
Thomas P. Talley, 50M, a retired psychiatrist from Walnut Creek, Calif., in 1994.
L. Moultrie DuBose, 48C, 51M, of Marietta, Ga., on Jan. 3, 1996. An ophthalmologist, Dr. DuBose served in the Medical Corps during World War II and was a member of the AMA and many other professional organizations. He practiced in Marietta his entire career, retiring in 1991.
Harold L. Murray, 47C, 51M, of Anderson, S.C., on Jan. 18, 1995.
Herbert S. Girardeau, Jr., 46Ox, 50C, 53M, of Norcross, Ga., on Aug. 17, 1995. A retired surgeon, he entered practice in 1959. After the partial loss of his eyesight in 1976, Dr. Girardeau moved to Houston, where he studied pediatrics and internal medicine, enabling him to work in emergency medicine. "He fought his way back," said LaNae Girardeau, his wife of 47 years. "His eyesight kept getting worse. He was knocked to the bottom but came back up. It was the only way he could do the thing he loved."
Surviving in addition to his wife are five children and three siblings.
Ralph E. Bodfish, 54M, of Los Alamitos, Calif., on April 13, 1995.
John E. Ramsey, Jr., 50C, 54M, of Atlanta, on Jan. 29, 1995. Dr. Ramsey, an aviator with more than a decade of experience as a pilot, died when his single-engine airplane crashed during a landing attempt at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. An obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Ramsey had served on the staff of Piedmont Hospital since 1962, was president of that hospital's medical staff in 1989, and chaired the ob-gyn department from 1985 to 1993. He was 66.
Roy A. Wiggins, Jr., 51C, 54M, of Atlanta, on Dec. 24, 1995. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne M. Wiggins, 51G, and three children. Dr. Wiggins practiced medicine in Atlanta for 35 years and was active in medical research-investigating new drug treatments for angina and hypertension-as well as medical volunteer services.
Ellis F. McClelland, 52C, 56M, of Westminster, Md., on Nov. 6, 1994.
William J. Rawls, 50Ox, 52C, 56M, a cardiologist from Atlanta, on Nov. 29, 1995. Dr. Rawls, 63, succumbed following a three-year battle with multiple myeloma.
Glenn D. Crawford, 57C, 60M, of Marietta, Ga., on June 6, 1995. Dr. Crawford also completed his dermatology and radiology residencies at Emory.
Malcolm M. Traxler, 60M, of Panama City, Fla., on Sept. 23, 1995. For 15 years, Dr. Traxler served as class councilman for his School of Medicine graduating class. He ranked first in his class all four years of medical school, was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society, and, on graduation, received the Eban J. Carey Award in Anatomy.
A founder of HCA-Gulf Coast Hospital, he practiced pediatrics in Panama City for 28 years before leaving that practice in 1991 to become director of the public health unit in Holmes County, Fla. He served on the governing boards of many charitable and civic organizations, including March of Dimes, Easter Seal Society, and the Civic Music Association. Surviving are his wife, Martha Lee Bridges Traxler, a son, a daughter, and a sister.
William R. Bailey, Jr., 61M, a retired ophthalmologist from Knoxville, Tenn., on Oct. 23, 1994.
Steven E. Duke, 94M, and his wife, Anne Kathleen Duke, of Tacoma, Wash., on April 23, 1995, in an automobile accident. Dr. Duke was in Tacoma completing a family practice residency at Madigan Army Medical Center. At Emory, he was the student leader of the Christian Medical and Dental Society and the 1993-1994 co-chair of the medical school's curriculum committee.
Deaths: Residency Training and Fellowship Alumni
William C. Crothers (medicine), of Salem, Ore., on Feb. 6, 1995.
William F. Emerson, Jr. (medicine), of Renton, Wash., on Oct. 8, 1995.
Karl Boyles Hanson (medicine), of Jacksonville, Fla., on Sept. 5, 1995.
William E. Harden (radiology), of Brunswick, Ga., on Jan. 3, 1996.
Rodrigo F. Luna (radiology), of Birmingham, Ala., on Jan. 1, 1995.
Frank W. McKinnon (orthopaedic surgery and medicine), of Marietta, Ga., on Jan. 8, 1996, of complications caused by dermatomyositis. In 1991, he was chosen as Cobb County's Physician of the Year. He was 61.
Redden L. Parramore, Jr. (otolaryngology), of Charleston, S.C., on Aug. 3, 1995.
Cecil H. Pirkle, 37C (surgery), of Atlanta, on May 5, 1994. Among his Emory survivors is a niece, Jennifer Sikes, 90C.
Alberto H. Santana (surgery), of Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 12, 1994.
Abelardo N. Ulloa (medicine), of Atlanta, on March 29, 1995, after a lengthy illness.
Donald W. Walters (medicine), of Van Wert, Ohio, on May 30, 1995. His wife had passed away a month earlier. They had no surviving family.
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