1956

The Alumni Fund drive is in full swing. An early gift will be appreciated. Dick Taylor and his crew will help you remember.

This column is being written on the day of the last episode of M*A*S*H on television. It is appropriate, therefore, that we salute those in the class committed to the medical profession. There are 64 doctors, two dentists, and a pharmacist among our classmates. They cover a wide range of specialties, with ophthalmology and radiology the most frequently chosen fields. Our doctors are scattered throughout the United States, with heavy concentrations in New York and California. As one might expect, a high percentage of doctor classmates are married to women who have also chosen the medical profession, as doctors, nurses, or technicians.

Ray Austin is a radiologist in Pittsfield, Mass. His wife Lorrie is a nurse. He speaks for a number of doctors in the class when he notes that "so many of the things we did for one another are now done by the government." George Becker is a dentist in Patchogue, N.Y. His wife Myrna is not in the medical profession but is an opera singer. The chief obstetrician and gynecologist at Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, Mass., is RichardBenoit. Before settling in his present position he and his wife Judith, a nurse, spent ten years in the Navy.

Bill Benson lives in Kansas City, Mo. When not traveling in the Orient or Europe as a specialist in his field, he engages in a practice of orthopedic and hand surgery. Ed Braverman is an internist and cardiologist in Rockville Centre, N.Y. He is also on the facuity of the medical school at the State University of New York. His wife Susan is a dietician. Back in the Midwest, we find Fred Chang as professor of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical School in Wichita.

Elliot Danforth is a professor of medicine and director of the clinical research center at the University of Vermont in Burlington. His wife Joan is a physical therapist and, according to Elliot, a "beautiful person." Mentioned in last month's column was Don Dillon, a specialise in hematology-oncology. He and his wife Patricia live in Olney, Md., where Don spends his spare time doing volunteer work for the American Cancer Society. High above Mount Vernon, Ill., in his hot air balloon, "Tranquility,' Crile Doscher, a surgeon, and his wife Pat, a nurse, observe, "Being no longer interested nor having to climb the ladder to success, we have appreciably integrated business and pleasure . . . Transcend what you can't change." A thought to ponder.

Moving west to San Francisco, we find Bill Ehrenfeld specializing in vascular surgery at the University of California Medical Center. Neil Raskin is a neurologist and professor at the same school. Bob Emde (Emde, M.D.. cute!) is a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Colorado Medical School in Denver. His wife Joyce is a nurse. Bob's commitment to teaching and research as well as to his patients is based on his own belief that the learning process never stops. "In the midst of accelerating social change, man has an astounding capacity for lifelong development, adaptation, and mastery."

Princeton, N.J., is the home of Steve Farmer and his wife Maxine, a psychiatric social worker. In addition to his practice of otolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat for us "rion-medics"), Steve also teaches and does research at Rutgers. Vincent Felitti is a physician in La Jolla, Calif. Jerry Finkel, a pathologist, and his wife Elizabeth, a hospital administrator, make their home in Port Jefferson, N.Y. He. too, speaks for many doctors: "Individuals must become more sensitive to the importance of others to themselves and more aware of their own humanness." Bill Frable teaches pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. His wife Mary Ann is also a physician. Two of our classmates share a practice in ophthalmology in New York; Alan Friedman and Tom Kuhns also both teach at N.Y.U. New York is not the easiest place in which to work, but as Alan notes, "Maturity and a sense of history afford one the perspective necessary to cope with our complex and rapidly changing world."

Morton Galina in Norcross, Ga., and Glen Gardner in Prairie Village, Kans., are both physicians. In Boston, David Gleason is engaged in the practice of radiology. Joe Gonnella is an internist and professor at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he specializes in the fields of medical education and patient care. Howard Green practices in Hanover. Also in Hanover is Don MacKay, who is professor of clinical medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School. Don's wife Sandra is chief of nursing research at the White Town Veterans Hospital. -

At the University of lowa as professor of dentistry and periodontics is Bill Grigsby. His wife Barbara Ann is a dental hygienist. George Groch is an internist in Northfield, N.J. Another ophthalmologist is Richard Gutow, director of retina service at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. His particular fields of specialty include laser therapy and retinal and vitreous surgery. Bill Hansen is a surgeon in Ithaca, N. Y., where his wife Janet is involved in nursing education. At the Center for Disease Cortrol in Atlanta, Ga., the chief of the perinatal virology branch is Ken Herrmann.

Eric Jensen is a doctor in Seattle. Paul Keith is an internist in Columbus, Ohio, and Arthur Kieger is an orthopedic surgeon in Hopkinton, Mass. Roger Hurwitz specializes in pediatric cardiology at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, where he is also a professor. Doctors, too, face mid-life crises, but Roger found his answer in what he does. "Perhaps the best part of this significant but transient change is the knowledge that I really do belong somewhere."

That covers about half of the doctors in the class. We'll cover the rest next month. Cheers!

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