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Gus Grimes (far left) with frat buddies
and classmates Bill Cromartie, the late
Bob Berry, and Bruce Logue, all 37M.

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As a medical student and resident, William "Gus" Grimes Jr., 37M, of Atlanta, trained under the estimable J.R. McCord. McCord was Emory's first faculty member to be paid for teaching clinical medicine, but he didn't get rich at it, being known as the "dollar-a-year man" for the amount of his token salary. Grimes remembers him as a splendid teacher and doctor -- but hard to impress.
    He recalls an illustrative incident from 1939, when he was assistant resident. Grimes was caring for a woman who, after giving birth, had begun experiencing convulsions, 14 over the space of six or seven hours.
    "I really didn't think she was going to live," he says. Dr. McCord had to leave and gave Grimes some parting advice. "Stick to the program, son. Stick to what I've taught you, and you both will be fine."
    Over the next three hours, the patient had four more seizures, and the visiting physician called in for duty had been delayed. Grimes decided to administer a new sedative, sodium amytal. There was a chance, he felt, that with sedation the convulsions might abate.
    "I literally had the syringe to her arm when the visiting man walked through the door. 'Gus,' he said, 'what have you got in that syringe?' I told him quickly, and he said, 'Go ahead.' I did, and she gasped and twitched, and I thought for sure that was it, but instead she fell asleep and the convulsions stopped. We had done it; we had saved her.
    "I was thrilled. I was on Cloud Nine. I couldn't wait for Dr. McCord's reaction."
    As it turns out, that reaction was a trifle underwhelming. Grimes arrived early the next day, still joyous, and sought McCord out. "He didn't even say good morning, much less good job," Grimes remembers. "What he did say was, 'We had one before who had 24. And she lived too.'" He then walked on by, pleased probably that his student had indeed stuck with the program and had solved a tricky problem for himself.
    Although Grimes never taught on Emory's paid faculty, he did teach for 40 years as a member of the volunteer clinical faculty. For the past 51 years, he has lived just a few blocks from the Clifton Road location of his first practice site, a group clinic he joined in 1940 with R.A. Bartholomew and E.D. Colvin. The practice was located in a house built by the university and leased to the doctors. Grimes recalls university President Harvey Warren Cox telling them not to be too surprised if the practice didn't work out. Expectant mothers, Cox said, might not be willing to travel that far out in the country to have their babies. If they couldn't get patients, Cox promised that Emory wouldn't hold the physicians to the terms of their lease. The practice thrived, however, moving off campus in 1952. Except for wartime service from 1941 to 1945, Grimes was associated with the practice until he hung up his shingle in 1986.
    During his years on Emory's volunteer faculty, Grimes trained and lectured innumerable students and residents. In 1968 he was named Emory's outstanding clinical professor. On retirement he was named Clinical Professor Emeritus in recognition of his decades of service.
    These days, Grimes keeps busy with yard work and teaching a men's Sunday school class at the Decatur First Baptist Church, where he has been involved for 45 years. "We named the group 'Alert' back when we started it," he says. "Now we have to punch each other to qualify for the name, we're all getting so damned old."
    Not too damned old and still pretty alert if story-telling skills reveal anything. Grimes will be 87 years young on his next birthday.

Bruce Logue, 37M.

R. Bruce Logue, 34C, 37M, of Atlanta, has received the American College of Cardiology's highest honor, its Presidential Citation. The award was presented in February 1999 by Emory University Professor of Medicine and ACC President Spencer B. King III. King, one of Logue's former cardiology fellows at Emory, noted that Logue's devotion and love for both clinical cardiology and his patients paved the way for future cardiovascular specialists.
    "I take great pleasure in naming you to receive this special award for the enormous contributions you have made as the person most responsible for bringing clinical cardiology to life for a whole generation of cardiologists," King wrote to Logue. "Your remarkable clinical acumen, your scientific curiosity, your superb care of patients, and your exemplary model of how to be a physician are qualities which far exceed simple technological advances and breakthroughs. I consider the era of evidence-based medicine to be simply an extension of your commonsense approach to address what is truly important regarding each patient. Your methods of teaching by example are now considered modern. Thousands of students have been infected with your enthusiasm for cardiology and your demonstrated commitment to the patient. I believe your example should be held up for future generations entering our profession."
    Among his many professional achievements, Logue developed the cardiology fellowship program at Grady and Emory University hospitals and was a founding member of The Emory Clinic. He served as chief of medicine at the clinic and at Emory Hospital until 1980, at which time he became director of the Carlyle Fraser Heart Center at Crawford Long Hospital, a position he held until his retirement in 1986. Logue - widely known for his vastly entertaining and informative lectures to medical students and residents - was founder and first president of the Georgia Heart Association and a prolific writer, perhaps best-known for co-editing the influential textbook The Heart with former chair of medicine at Emory, J. Willis Hurst. Originally published in 1966, the book is now in its eighth edition and has been printed in five languages. Logue worked on the first three editions.
    In 1979, Logue received the Medical Alumni Association's Award of Honor, and in 1986 Emory dedicated a cardiology chair in his honor. He lives in the Buckhead area of Atlanta with his wife, Carolyne.

Fleming L. Jolley, 47M

Fleming L. Jolley, 43Ox, 47M, received the Emory Medal, the university's highest honor, during Alumni Reunion Weekend.
   After medical school, Jolley completed a surgery residency then served two years' active duty in the Navy during the Korean conflict. He returned to Emory in 1954 for a neurosurgery residency and afterward established a private practice downtown as one of only eight neurosurgeons in the city. After two years in solo practice, he became a member of The Emory Clinic, where he practiced until 1979. A private practice in neurosurgery in Brunswick, Ga., was the next step. He retired from that position in 1989 to spend more time at his Sea Island home with his wife, the late Anne Hoyt, who died in 1993. Jolley remarried in 1997 to Bettye Irby.
   Throughout his career, Jolley has been active in the medical community. He is a fellow in the American College of Surgeons, and he served as vice president and as a member of the board of trustees of the Fulton County Medical Society. He also has served on Emory's National Council of Medicine since 1995. He has been an energetic presence among Emory alumni for decades. His activities include membership of the Oxford Board of Counselors, the Oxford Alumni Recruitment Network, and the Emory Club of Atlanta Steering Committee.
   In 1996, Jolley turned over to Emory 60 acres of land that had been in his family for more than six decades. Proceeds from the sale of that land funded a medical school scholarship named for his late wife, as well as the renovation of four of Oxford College's oldest dormitories into the ultramodern Fleming L. Jolley Residential Center.

In July 1998, Samuel A. Wells Jr., 58C, 61M, became director of the American College of Surgeons. He has been a fellow in that society since 1976 and is active in numerous other surgical organizations - many of which he has served as president - including the American Surgical Society, the Southern Surgical Association, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the Society of Clinical Surgery, and the Halsted Society.
   From 1972 until 1981, Wells worked at Duke University, eventually rising to the rank of professor of surgery and serving as director of the clinical research unit. In 1981, he was appointed the Bixby Professor of Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis. In the ensuing years he has shepherded that department to a position of national leadership.
   Wells is a prolific author and a distinguished researcher. He and his wife, the former Barbara Ann Atwood, have two daughters, Susan Wells, 90C, and Sarah Wells, 86C.

Peter G. Bourne, 59C, 62M, wrote to ask us to correct an error in his class note that ran in the Summer 1999 issue of Emory Medicine. He points out that he does not "work out of the university's administrative offices in New York." Rather, as the chief executive officer of St. George's University, Grenada, he is, indeed, based in Grenada. The university's office in New York is for recruitment and other US liaison activities.

E. William Schmitt Jr., 62M, of Atlanta, received the Distinguished Service Lectureship Award from the orthopedics section of the American Academy of Pediatrics in October 1997. Schmitt is a pediatric orthopedist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston and a member of Emory's clinical faculty.

Donald H. Arnold, 79M

Stanley W. Sherman, 69C, 73M, of Atlanta, has been appointed to serve a three-year term as president of the Georgia Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. Sherman, who was a member of the house staff in the Department of Medicine at Emory in the mid-1970s, has a private cardiology practice in Decatur. He is married with two children.

Hugh W. Randall, 69Ox, 71C, 75M, of Atlanta, began a two-year term as chairman of the Council of Maternity and Infant Health of the State of Georgia on July 1. He was appointed to the M&I Council in 1989 by Gov. Joe Frank Harris and re-appointed by Gov. Zell Miller last year. The council was established to advise state agencies in all matters relating to maternal and infant health. Randall is currently professor and director of residency training in gynecology and obstetrics at Emory and chief of the gynecology and obstetrics service at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Dorian Hayes, 73C, 78M, a radiologist at Emory and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, joined 10 other members of a Flying Doctors team this past May to offer medical help to Kosovar refugees interned in camps in Albania. Hayes and the other members of the nonprofit Flying Doctors group treated between 400 and 700 refugees a day over the course of their eight-day mission.
   On previous missions with the Flying Doctors to Mexico and India, Hayes did pediatric work but says the Kosovo trip was more of a rescue effort than a preplanned mission and required them all to be flexible team players willing to help out in any need that arose. Hayes says her work with the Flying Doctors, particularly the mission in India where she worked with Mother Teresa and the Sisters of Charity, has changed the way she looks at the practice of medicine. "I want to care for people however I am able," she says, "both as a medical doctor and as a fellow human being reaching out."
   In the past 10 years, Flying Doctors of America has flown more than 100 missions and provided free medical care to more than 85,000 people. Team participants pay their own airfare plus make a $500 donation to the organization.

Donald H. Arnold, 75C, 79M, a pediatrician living in Rockledge, Fla., received the Child Abuse Prevention Award from the Yellow Umbrella, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about how to prevent child abuse. He was recognized for his "commitment and compassion in the mission of prevention of child abuse." Arnold is married and has a 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son.

Frederick B. Axelrod, 83M

Cynthia L. Cummings-Boutte, 82M, of Santa Cruz, Calif., served as 1997-1998 president of the Santa Clara County Academy of Family Practice.

Frederick B. Axelrod, 83M, of Port Washington, N.Y., has joined Pall Corporation as medical director and vice president of scientific and laboratory services. He will manage the medical, scientific, and technical support efforts for Pall's medical group. Pall specializes in the development and sale of blood filtration and separation devices. Previously, Axelrod had served as medical director of the Haemonetics Corporation in Braintree, Mass., and as medical director of the American Blood Institute in Los Angeles.

Sandra Adamson Fryofer, 83M, of Atlanta, is president of the American College of Physicians' American Society of Internal Medicine. She is the youngest person and only the second woman to hold this position in the 84-year history of the ACP-ASIM. For the past five years, she has been a member of the ACP's board of regents. She is the national spokesperson for the ACP-ASIM public education program and is the delegate to the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is also the ACP's representative to the CDC Task Force on Folic Acid.
   At Piedmont Hospital, Fryofer is on the Board of the Nicholas E. Davies Health Information Center, a member of the medical value enhancement committee, and vice chair of the Physician's Council of the Piedmont Medical Care Foundation.

J. Sidney Clements Jr., 80C, 84M, of Pensacola, Fla., has been appointed medical director of Baptist Hospital in that city. Clements, an infectious disease specialist, has been with Baptist Hospital since 1989 and is president of its medical staff. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the American College of Physicians. Clements and his wife, Katherine Jenro Clements, 78C, have three children.

Mark S. Litwin, 85M, was promoted to associate professor with tenure at University of California in Los Angeles where he holds a dual faculty appointment in urology and public health. His research focuses on outcomes and quality of life in men with prostate cancer and is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and others. He and his partner, Adam Shulman, live in Santa Monica.

Allen Averbrook, 86M, Emily Lance Averbrook, 88M, and their three children have relocated to Pinehurst, N.C., where Allen has joined a multispecialty surgical group.

Thomas Terrell, 91M (left) is a volunteer
physician for the Olympics.

Born: To Misha Luis Pless, 90M, and Patty Nothmann, of Pittsburgh, a son, Noam Werner, on April 18, 1999. Pless is director of neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Thomas Roland Terrell, 91M, of Columbia, Md., spent two weeks this past July working as a volunteer sports medicine physician at the US Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., where he cared for American Olympic hopefuls in training. He specifically dealt with the orthopedic medical problems that arise in high-performance athletes. Terrell, a former forward on Jacksonville (Fla.) University's basketball team, struggled with knee injuries throughout his college career, so he has special empathy for injured athletes -- for those, he says, "who have the drive to compete and enjoy the thrill of competition, but can't because they're injured."
   The Lake Placid experience was not his first brush with the Olympics -- nor, he hopes, will it be his last. In 1996, he was one of the volunteers selected by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to care for Olympic athletes at the Summer Games in Atlanta. He worked at the Polyclinic Primary Care and Sports Medicine Clinic and at the volleyball competition site. "It was a real thrill," he remembers. "We treated athletes from more than 250 countries, IOC officials and their families, and volunteers/staff."
   Among those he treated was Toni Kukoc, an NBA forward for the Chicago Bulls, who played for his home country of Croatia in the Olympics and who is generally regarded as the best basketball player ever to come out of Europe. After treatment and some chit-chat about mutual basketball acquaintances, Kukoc asked Terrell for directions to the cafeteria.
   "I recall Dr. Ken Walker at Emory telling us in his illustrious medical school clerkship, 'Do not hesitate to do anything for the patient.' Well, I guess directions to the cafeteria is not exactly a major effort, but at least Toni had a full stomach prior to the evening game!"
   The Polyclinic introduced Terrell to some high-profile athletes but also to some great disparities in global health care. "We did over 1,000 dental procedures for some athletes who had never seen a dentist," he says. "A portable MRI scanner parked behind the Georgia Tech student health center was overbooked within just a few days. Over 500 eyeglass prescriptions were filled. I guess we literally 'opened the eyes of the world.'"
   And it opened his eyes to the Olympics. Terrell has long since submitted his application to participate in Utah in 2002.
   After graduating from the School of Medicine in 1991, Terrell earned a masters of philosophy at Cambridge University in England, then came back to the United States to train in primary care sports medicine at Michigan State University. Eventually, he was recruited to the University of Maryland Medical Center to provide primary care and noninvasive orthopedic care to student-athletes at the College Park school.
   This August, Terrell took a position as team physician at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where he oversees the care of not only that school's athletes but also a minor league baseball team and some local high school players. He is also serving as assistant professor of family medicine in USC's Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and as a faculty member in the family practice residency program.

Todd W. Frieze, 92M, and Tricia L. Kunovich-
Frieze, 92M, celebrating daughter Emma's
first birthday. They recently moved to
San Antonio.

Todd W. Frieze, 92M, and Tricia L. Kunovich-Frieze, 92M, have moved from Kettering, Ohio, to San Antonio, Texas. Frieze completed a residency in internal medicine at Wright Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, and has started an endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism fellowship with the US Air Force at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio. Kunovich-Frieze completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The couple's daughter, Emma, recently celebrated her first birthday.

In June 1998, Jack D. Owens, 92M, received his MPH in epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. That month he also finished a fellowship in neonatology at UAB, after which he accepted a position as assistant professor at the Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Ga. He is married to Leslie Temple Owens, 89Ox, 91C. Their daughter, Caroline Elizabeth, was born in May 1998.

Born: To Garet K. Pilling, 88C, 92M, and Jennifer L. Kraus, 88C, 92M, of Mt. Laurell, N.J., their second son, Zachary Wright, on May 10, 1998. Pilling works in interventional radiology and Kraus in infectious diseases.

Mark Wyers, 94M, is a surgical resident at Boston Children's Hospital. He and his wife, Beth, were married in Boston on Nov. 7, 1998.

Born: To Geny and Lon Joseph Augdahl, 95M, of Madison, Wis., a son, Alan Edward, on May 22, 1998. Augdahl is finishing his fourth year as chief resident in psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals.

Born: To Avi Kumar, 91C, 95M, and Lana Chiu Kumar, 91C, a daughter, Madelyn, on Sept. 5, 1998. Kumar is an orthopedic surgery resident at Tufts University Medical Center in Boston.

Both Philip Edward Manley Jr., 89Ox, 91C, 95M, and wife, Myra Aurelia Phipps, 95M, completed family practice residencies in Huntsville, Ala., in June 1997. Myra has entered private practice, while Philip is pursuing a pediatrics residency in Greenville, S.C., where the couple lives.

Married: Laura Elizabeth Miller, 93C, 97M, to Thomas Tuan Dovan, 97M, on Feb. 6, 1999. The couple has moved to Nashville, where Miller has entered residency in pediatrics at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and Dovan is an orthopedics resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Married: Yolanda Fuleta Oglesby, 95C, 99M, and Walter Lee Johnson Jr., 95C, on May 22, 1999, in Savannah, Ga.

Married: Bryon Thomas Wall, 99M, of Woodstock, Ga., and Jennifer Nicolle Baudin, of New Orleans, on May 1, 1999. Wall is a resident at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in the Department of Orthopedics.

Athena P. Kourtis

Residency Training and Fellowship Alumni

Miguel Faria (neurosurgery), of Macon, Ga., received the Americanism medal and certificate from the Daughters of the American Revolution in January 1998. A native of Cuba, Faria was the first recipient of this award to be chosen by the Macon branch of the DAR. The organization selected Faria as much for his community service and love of American history as for his accomplishments as a neurosurgeon and author.

Athena P. Kourtis (pediatrics), of Decatur, Ga., won the 1999 Young Investigator Award from the American Academy of Microbiology for her work on pediatric immunology and HIV/AIDS. Kourtis's research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, hypothesized that HIV in some fetuses and newborn infants can cause the thymus, vital for development of T lymphocytes, to malfunction. A follow-up study confirmed and expanded these findings and was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Her current work looks at the genetic basis for HIV strains selectively affecting the thymus. She is also using thymus transplants to restore the immune system in children with HIV.
   Kourtis received her MD from the National University in Athens, Greece, and her PhD in immunology from the Institut Pasteur in Paris. She did postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins as well as at Emory. She currently serves as assistant professor in pediatrics at Emory.

Born: To Arvind Y. Krishna (internal medicine) and Ritu S. Krishna, of Canton, Ohio, their first child, a son, Ashwin, on Jan. 21, 1998. Krishna is a consultant endocrinologist in Canton and a member of Northeastern Ohio University's clinical faculty.

John B. Neeld Jr. (anesthesiology) was recently installed as president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. With more than 34,000 members, it is the largest organization of anesthesiologists in the world. Neeld completed postgraduate training in anesthesiology at Emory in the early 1970s. He and his wife, Gail, live in Atlanta.

In 1982, Rogsbert Frenzel Phillips (general surgery), of Atlanta, became the second woman and the first African-American woman to finish Emory's surgical program. Since then, she has practiced medicine in Atlanta, focusing on breast surgery and laparoscopic surgery, and has worked to educate the community about breast cancer. She heads Metro Surgical Associates, a community-based surgical practice in Decatur.
   In 1991, Phillips created Sisters by Choice, a breast cancer support group for women in DeKalb County and the Atlanta area. Based on this community work, Phillips was a finalist in the Atlanta Business Chronicle's 1999 Health Care Heroes Awards competition. In a profile of Phillips that ran in that publication, she says her early surgical experiences drew her to caring for women in particular.
   "If I look at all the cancer patients I take care of, women who go through breast cancer are just my heroes," she is quoted as saying. "They are unique people. I slowly developed an interest and passion to try and do something for them and make their lives better. That's what I'm all about."

Married: John Stephen Thomas Jr. (internal medicine), and Suzanne Thomas, 91Ox, 93C, on June 7, 1995. They recently returned to Emory so John could begin a one-year fellowship in clinical neurophysiology. Previously they lived in Charlottesville, Va., where he completed a residency in neurology.

Ralph E. Wesley (ophthalmology), of Nashville, has been elected vice president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and will serve as president in the year 2001. Wesley is founding director of ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery and clinical professor of ophthalmology at Vanderbilt.

Born: To Jeffrey Lee Widell (internal medicine) and wife, Adrienne, a daughter, Sydney Katharine, on the couple's third wedding anniversary, May 6, 1998. The Widells make their home in Milwaukee.

School of Medicine Alumni

Joseph Lawrence Parsons, 26M, of Birmingham, Ala., on April 2, 1994. He was a retired surgeon at Baptist Medical Center and is survived by his wife, Georgia Shaddix Parsons.

James H. Pound, 26M, on Sept. 7, 1996, at age 97.

Edward Canipelli, 34M, a retired surgeon
from Jacksonville, Fla.

Edward Canipelli, 32C, 34M, a retired surgeon from Jacksonville, Fla., on Feb. 23, 1999. Canipelli and his brother, Joseph Canipelli, 41M, were both well known and highly respected surgeons who practiced for many years at St. Vincent's Hospital. Ed and his wife raised four adopted children. He was active in a variety of local charities and causes, particularly with the Roman Catholic Church. He is survived by his wife, Doris Ott Canipelli, and their children and grandchildren.

Purcell Roberts, 31C, 35M, of Beaufort, S.C., on Nov. 5, 1997.

Haywood L. Moore, 37M, of St. Simons Island, Ga., on Feb. 27, 1999. He's survived by his wife, Frances McDonald Moore.

Phillips Respess Bryan, 35C, 38M, of Lynchburg, Va., on Nov. 27, 1998, at home. He is survived by his wife, Mary Smith Bryan, a son, and three daughters. Bryan was 84 years old.
   During World War II, Bryan served as commanding officer of the 84th Field Hospital in Europe with the rank of major, and he began a general surgery practice in Lynchburg in 1947. He served as president of the Lynchburg Academy of Medicine and was a member of the Lynchburg Journal Club.

Raiden W. Dellinger, 38M

Raiden W. Dellinger, 35C, 38M, of Rome, Ga., on Jan. 2, 1999, at age 84 after an extended illness. A native of Bartow County, Dellinger was born Dec. 18, 1914, the son of the late Arthur Herman Dellinger and Ruth Reiden Dellinger. He was a 1931 graduate of Darlington School. After finishing college and medical school at Emory, he served his internship at the New York Polyclinic, the training hospital of Columbia University, from 1938 to 1940, and his residency at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., from 1941 to 1942.
   Dellinger practiced medicine and surgery in Rome from 1945 until his retirement in 1981. He was past president of Floyd Hospital, now Floyd Medical Center, and on two separate occasions, was chief of surgery at Floyd Hospital. Dellinger was the medical vice president of the Floyd County Cancer Society and served as the director of the Floyd County Cancer Clinic. He was a member of the American Board of Abdominal Surgeons, the American Medical Association, and the Georgia Medical Association.
   An avid outdoorsman, Dellinger enjoyed hunting, fishing, and golfing and won the City/Country Golf Tournament in 1954. He was a member and past president of the Coosa Country Club and was a member of the Second Avenue United Methodist Church.
   Dellinger was a veteran of World War II, 1942-1945, and recipient of the Bronze Star, serving as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ruth Steigel Dellinger, in 1979.
   Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Rose Tankersley, to whom he was married Dec. 20, 1980, one stepson, two stepdaughters, five step-granddaughters, and a nephew. His son-in-law is Michael L. Sellers, 67L.

Malcolm F. Simmons, 43M

Malcolm Freeman Simmons, 40C, 43M, of Decatur, Ga., on March 13, 1999, of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Simmons was a veteran of World War II, serving in the US Navy aboard the Henry S. Wiley. Afterward he opened a medical practice in Decatur that he ran for 17 years. He then organized the DeKalb Medical Center Emergency Services and served there for 18 years. He also served as president of the DeKalb Medical Society. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Harralson Simmon; a daughter, Linda Brass, of Newnan; a son, Richard Simmons, 65Ox, 67C, 71D; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Haywood Turner, 43M, of Columbus, Ga., a well-respected physician, scholar, and inventor, on Feb. 2, 1999, at age 79. A voracious student, Turner taught himself how to speak German and Spanish so he could speak to people in other countries via shortwave radio. He also taught himself to play the piano. In 1955 he received a National Heart Institute fellowship from Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he worked for two years with Helen Tausig doing research on children's heart defects.
   Turner patented several inventions, including the nomogram, a device that can be easily carried to read electrocardiograms. He also invented an inertia nutcracker, which can crack nutshells so that the nut comes out whole.
   As a doctor, Turner was known for his warm manner, unfailing concern for patients, and high professional standards. He is survived by his wife, Reba S. Turner, two sons, two daughters, and four sisters.

Max I. Silver, 41C, 44M, of San Francisco, on Feb. 1, 1999, at age 76. Silver was retired from the practice of psychiatry. He is survived by his wife, Mae Kramer Silver, and a daughter.

George Tootle, 41Ox, 43C, 45M, of Duluth, Ga., on Feb. 6, 1999, at age 76, of complications from Parkinson's disease and cancer. "He was a physician who could get you well," said his cousin, Duluth surgeon Jerry C. Tottle.

George Tootle was a surgeon and healer known for his straightforward manner. He helped many physicians get their start in Gwinnett County, Ga., and he was vital in the development of Joan Glancy Hospital and its inclusion in the Gwinnett Medical Center system. At one point in his career, Tootle taught at Emory during the day and performed surgery at night, assisting his friend, the late Miles Mason Jr., who had a general practice in Duluth. In 1952, Tootle joined Mason's practice when there were fewer than six doctors in the county and began practicing general medicine as well as surgery. He later established his own practice in surgery. He was a fellow in the Southeastern Surgical Congress, the American College of Surgeons, and the International College of Surgeons.
   As a young man, Tootle tried to enroll at Georgia Tech to become a pilot. "His mother high-tailed it up to Atlanta and laid the law down to him," says his wife, Alice McMahon Tootle, 43N. "It was not his idea to be a doctor. It was his mother's. George's secret love was airplanes. He had more airplane pictures than the Smithsonian Institution."
   But mother had her way, and Tootle eventually came to love the profession. After he graduated from medical school, Tootle became a surgeon with the US Army Air Corps during World War II. A regimented but agreeable man, he loved a good joke, says his wife. "If you gave him one, he'd give you one right back."
   Survivors other than his wife include three daughters and six grandchildren.

James C. Freeman, 46M

James Cleveland Freeman, 42Ox, 44C, 46M, a native of Screven County, Ga., on Jan. 31, 1999. He was 74 years old.
   Freeman became Screven County Hospital's first chief of staff in 1951 and served there for 35 years. He was a member of the American Medical Association of Georgia, the Southern Medical Association, the Sylvania Lions Club, and Screven County Farm Bureau.
   Freeman was an Army Medical Corps veteran and received the Headquarters Third Army Certificate of Recognition in 1949. He retired as a captain.
   An active participant with his alma mater, Freeman served on the Oxford College Board of Counselors and the Emory University Alumni Council. He is survived by his wife, Virginia Corley Freeman, a son, four daughters, three sisters, and nine grandchildren.

Frank E. Morgan Jr., 44C, 46M, of Atlanta, a retired radiologist, on June 11, 1998. Morgan was also a member of Emory's house staff in 1951-1952 in the Department of Radiology. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and two sons.

Argin A. Boggus Jr., 54M

W.J. Goudelock, 53M, of Easley, S.C., on March 28, 1999. After graduating from medical school, Goudelock served as chief resident in general surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital. He was once in line to serve as private physician to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He practiced in Easley for 33 years.
   During World War II he met his wife-to-be, Dorothy, who was a flight nurse. Dorothy survives him, as do two sons, David and Gary, 80M, and a daughter, Clara.

Argin A. Boggus Jr., 54M, of Tavares, Fla., on Jan. 20, 1999, after a long illness, at age 70. Boggus was an Eagle Scout, co-valedictorian of his high school class, and a Congressional page. His hometown was Savannah, Ga. After graduating from Emory, he served his general practice internship at Grady Hospital, then served two years in the Army. After a short medical practice in Dahlonega, Ga., he moved to Taveres, opening a family practice that he would maintain for almost 40 years.
   He also served as the doctor for the Tavares High School sports teams, and the school's stadium bears his name. Boggus was a big fan, attending every home game and every away football game as well as many other events at the school. "The whole school is saddened by his passing," said Tavares Athletic Director Vickie Hurley. "The whole school, the whole community, I think, was at one time a patient of his. He was a special guy."
   He is survived by his wife, Chloe, three sons, two daughters, one brother, three sisters, and 11 grandchildren.

Edzell P. Dickerson, 50C, 55M, of Bradenton, Fla., on Dec. 17, 1998, of lung cancer. Dickerson, 73, established Bayshore Medical Center, a four-man practice, and Westside Family Physicians. In the early 1970s he was one of a group of 30 Florida physicians who founded Blake Medical Center. He served as administrator of that hospital from 1973 to 1974, expanding beds there from 152 to 300 and developed the first rehabilitation and radiation centers in a southwest Florida hospital.
   During World War II, Dickerson served in the Navy. On leaving the service and graduating from medical school, he settled in Florida, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is survived by his wife, Virginia P. Dickerson, 53N, a daughter, two sons, a sister, a brother, and two grandchildren.

Sacit Eren and his wife, Mahire

Residency Training and Fellowship Alumni

Sacit Eren (internal medicine and endocrinology) of Severna Park, Md., on Feb. 16, 1999, from congestive heart failure. Eren had a private practice in Linthicum for 25 years, until his retirement in 1989.
   Originally from Turkey, Eren earned his MD from the University of Istanbul in 1955 . While engaged to his future wife, Mahire, Eren came to Atlanta in 1958 to pursue an internship at Georgia Baptist Hospital. His fianceé joined him the next year, and they were married in Atlanta on the day she arrived from Istanbul. Following residency training in West Virginia and at Atlanta's St. Joseph's Infirmary, Eren served as a fellow in medicine (endocrinology) at Emory from 1962 to 1964 under John Preedy.
   Eren and his young family then returned to Turkey, where he served as a physician in the Turkish Army, taught at the Aegean University, and maintained a private practice. Eren brought his family back to the United States in 1967, when he accepted a position with North Arundel Hospital, Crownsville Hospital Center, and Harbor Hospital Center in Baltimore. In 1976, he was appointed associate professor of medicine at the University of Istanbul. He was a member of the American Society of Internal Medicine and the Maryland Society of Internal Medicine.
   He is survived by his wife, three sons, a brother, and a sister.

John F. Gayle (obstetrics/gynecology) of Hampton, Va., on Aug. 17, 1998, after a long illness, at age 83. He is survived by his wife, Louise.

Carl W. Koerper (internal medicine) on Sept. 22, 1998, at age 87. Koerper practiced internal medicine for 50 years. He was an active member of the Oakland Businessman's Garden Club, the California Native Plant Society, and the Sierra Club.
   Koerper met his wife, Ruth, at Grady Memorial Hospital while he was a resident and she was in nursing school. They were married secretly for more than a year so that Ruth would not be dropped from her nursing program, as the rules in those days forbade students to be married. Ruth Koerper preceded her husband in death by just a few months, on March 28, 1998. They had been married for 59 years.
   Koerper is survived by a daughter, a son, and eight grandchildren.

Rivington Hammond Randolph (general surgery) of Amelia Island, Fla., on June 6, 1997. He is survived by his wife, Loretta.

Dell Weible (obstetrics/gynecology), 51, of Clearwater, Fla., on Dec. 30, 1998, by drowning. Weible finished his residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Emory in 1981, the year he married Debra Thomas. Debra practices ophthalmology in Clearwater and is raising the couple's two sons, David, 17, and Dell Jr., 15.