class notes
1940s
WILLIAM OLIVER FRICK, ÿ42, who is retired, has done
some traveling, most recently in Egypt. He also tutors algebra and
English as a second language at Pasadena City College.
MARVIN GERBER, ÿ42, retired 15 years ago after serving
as chief of surgery and president of the medical staff at Marin
General Hospital. He is also a retired captain, U.S. Navy Medical
Corps.
1950s
ARTHUR L. COOLEY, ÿ58, writes, þI would not encourage
anyone now to go into medicine. It would be better to go into insurance.ú
1960s
PAUL BERGSTRESSER, ÿ68, chair of dermatology at the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, has been elected
secretary-treasurer of the Society for Investigative Dermatology.
The Society, which was established in 1938, supports research and
education relating to the skin.
JAMES J. BUTZOW, ÿ63 (PhD), writes that after 30
years as a researcher at the National Institute on Aging, where
he specialized in bioinorganic aspects of genetic information transfer,
he has joined the biology faculty of the College of Notre Dame of
Maryland, Baltimore. Previously in his career, he made an early
demonstration of the age-dependent cross-linking of collagen. Later
he devoted himself to the study of mechanisms by which metal ions
stabilize and degrade RNA and DNA and participate in control of
genetic transcription.
He also announces that his longtime shadow career
interest in fundamental medical-scientific input into medical ethics
has led to a book: Underpinnings of Medical Ethics, by E.A.
Murphy, J.J. Butzow and E.L. Suarez-Murias (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1997).
1970s
JOHN H. COCHRAN JR., ÿ78 (resident), a plastic surgeon
in Denver and president of the medical staff at Exempla Saint Joseph
Hospital, returned to Stanford this fall (September 1999) to the
Graduate School of Business.
MICHELE EPSTEIN, ÿ79, writes, þWe had a most wonderful
(and memorable) 20th class reunion (1979!), including sailing on
the Bay. ... Letÿs hope we are still Îkickingÿ for the next pseudo-cosmic
event, in or off the Bay.ú
MICHAEL GRAVES, ÿ70, writes that he is on the faculty
at UCLA in neurology and þwould love to hear from classmates (School
of Medicine 1970).ú
ANTHONY J. ROON, ÿ72, sends this update: þI have
just retired from my practice of vascular and thoracic surgery at
the Everett Clinic in Everett, Wash. I am presently the director
of trauma services at Providence General Medical Center in Everett.ú
He will become president of the medical staff in January 2000.
1980s
MARIO ESTOLANO, ÿ86, has recently joined the attending
staff at Clarion Hospital, Clarion, Pa.
JUDY ILLES, ÿ87 (PhD), who is with Stanfordÿs Department
of Radiology, has published a new book. Itÿs called The Strategic
Grant-Seeker: A Guide to Conceptualizing Fundable Research in the
Brain and Behavioral Sciences (Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., 1999).
She is director of strategic research development and executive
director of the Stanford Brain Research Center.
JOHN VAN WYE, ÿ85, and HOPE MUSTOE, ÿ87, are þenjoying
life in the mountains of western North Carolina.ú John is with a
private allergy group and Hope is practicing pediatrics part time.
They write: þOur greatest delights are our children, Ian (5) and
Eliza (2). We are having more fun as parents that we ever imagined!ú
1990s
HARRISON CHOW, ÿ94, is a staff anesthesiologist at
Summit Medical Center in Oakland. He lives in Burlingame.
CATHERINE LOMEN-HOERTH, ÿ94 (MD, PhD), who is a neuromuscular
fellow at UCSF, was awarded a clinical research fellowship by the
American Academy of Neurology Education and Research Foundation.
She received the two-year award, designed to support research in
clinical neurosciences, at the 51st American Academy of Neurology
annual meeting in Toronto last spring.
Lomen-Hoerth plans to use the fellowship for research
on measuring the rate of motor neuron loss as a means of predicting
an ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) prognosis. þUncovering genes
that influence the rate of progression of ALS and susceptibility
to ALS can provide an understanding of the underlying mechanisms
of the disease. This understanding may lead to new therapies that
treat a new mechanism of the disease,ú said Lomen-Hoerth.
VINCENT YOUNG, ÿ92, who has completed a residency
in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at
Massachusetts General Hospital, is now a postdoc at MIT. He is married
to Davoren Chick, MD, (a 1992 graduate of Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons). Their son, Christopher, was born Dec.
16, 1997, and they are expecting a second child in February 2000.
Obituaries
WILLIAM P. CORR JR.,
alumnus of Stanford University and Medical School, died July 23,
1999, of colon cancer at his home in Riverside, Calif. He was 67.
Corr was born in Los Angeles. He received his bachelorÿs
degree from Stanford in 1953 and his medical degree in 1956. He
completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Corr
served as a medical officer with the U.S. Air Force for two years
and he was discharged with the rank of captain.
From 1963 until 1992, he practiced internal medicine
at the Riverside Medical Clinic, which his father, William Corr
Sr., MD, cofounded. The younger Dr. Corr was laboratory director
of the clinic from 1968 until his retirement. For 35 years, he also
served on the clinical faculty at Loma Linda University.
Corr volunteered at the Casa Blanca Free Clinic and
the Youth Service Center in Riverside. In the early 1960s, he went
to Afghanistan and Peru with MEDICO, an affiliate of CARE that sends
medical workers overseas.
He is survived by his wife, Therese; six sons; and
three grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the
Riverside Medical Foundation, 6876 Indiana Ave., Riverside, Calif.
92506 or Riverside Life Services, 4175 Luther, Riverside, Calif.
92506.
JAMES H. DEWSON,
a Stanford medical alumnus and former faculty member, died August
6, 1999, of cancer. He was 65.
Dewson, who was born in New York City on Feb. 14,
1934, received a PhD in hearing science at Stanford in 1961. He
completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry,
served as an instructor in the Division of Speech Pathology and
Audiology and as a research associate, all at Stanford. Dewson received
a faculty appointment in 1965. Following a three-year stint on leave
to Oxford University as a lecturer, he returned to Stanford as an
associate professor and director of hearing and speech sciences
in the Department of Surgeryÿs otolaryngology division. In addition,
Dewson served eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve.
In particular, Dewson was recognized as a pioneering
researcher on the brain and behavior of animals. He was an elected
fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and lectured throughout
the United States, Great Britain and Europe. He served as chair
of the Universitywide Panel on Laboratory Animal Care and led the
Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine, first as acting director
and from 1980 as director. He retired in 1984 to pursue other career
interests.
Dewson is survived by his wife, three daughters,
a son and seven grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Hospice
of McKenzie-Willamette Hospital, 1460 G St., Springfield, Ore. 97477
or to the American Cancer Society.
CHARLES C. (CUB) FAHLEN, class
of 1937, died July 3, 1999, at the age of 88.
Fahlen was born on Aug. 28, 1910, in St. Louis. At
an early age he moved with his family to the then sparsely populated
state of Arizona, where the family homesteaded in the desert, an
experience that remained with him for the rest of his life.
He met Dorothy (Dot) Stauffer in Phoenix and the
two married after college. Over the years, their family grew to
include three children, Chuck, Ted and Caroline; then their spouses;
and eventually 11 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
Fahlen served as a medical officer during World War
II. After the war he established a family practice in San Francisco.
As a general practitioner, he continued to make house calls and
answer his own phone at any hour of the day or night into his eighties,
not wanting to abandon any of his patients. He believed in compassion
in medicine and has been described as þone of the last of the old
school of doctors.ú
He was a teller of stories, including anecdotes of
early life in the Arizona desert and tales about his adventures
in school and as a doctor-in-training. He was also an accomplished
wood carver and sketch artist. His drawings appeared in exhibits
in art galleries in New York and Philadelphia.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Hospice
by the Bay, 1540 Market Street, Ste. 350. San Francisco, Calif.
94102 or to the Haight Ashbury Clinic, 558 Clayton St., San Francisco,
Calif. 94117.
AUSTIN WILLIAM (TEX) LEA,
class of 1943, died of pancreatic cancer August 2, 1999, at his
home in Marin County. He was 81.
One of only four obstetricians in Marin County when
he began practicing there, Lea was soon delivering more than 300
babies a year. Longtime doctor friend Scott Strathairn, of San Rafael,
remembers Lea as þa very popular, very personable and very good
doctor.ú Leaÿs son, Austin, of Walnut Creek, says, þHe was such
a sweetheart, a really great guyú and þa brilliant person.ú
Lea was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, the son of
a rancher. Lea graduated from Stanford University in 1938 at the
end of the Depression and returned to Texas to look for a job. He
went to work in the oil fields as a roustabout, the only available
job at the time. But he had long dreamed of medical school, so he
returned to Stanford and graduated with an MD in 1943. He became
a Navy physician, serving at Oak Knoll and Mare Island hospitals
before departing for the South Pacific, where he served for two
years on a destroyer during World War II.
In 1944, he married Elinor Gromm, whom he had met
when she was a student nurse at San Francisco General Hospital.
After his discharge from the Navy, the Leas moved to Texas where
he went into general practice and trained in surgery at a hospital
there, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.
Next the Leas relocated to California and in 1950
he joined in practice with Howard Hammond [see obituary Stanford
Medicine summer 1999] as part of the pioneer San Rafael Medical
Group. They were partners until Leaÿs retirement in 1978.
He is survived by his wife, six children, 23 grandchildren
and eight great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be sent to Stanford University
School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford Calif. 94305 or
Hospice of Marin, 150 Nellen Ave., Corte Madera, Calif. 94925.
C. ARTHUR SPAULDING JR.,
University and Medical School alum, died May 11, 1999, at the California
Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. He was 83.
Spaulding, a retired orthopedic surgeon, was born
Jan. 6, 1916, in Pasadena, Calif. He graduated from Stanford University
in 1937 and was a member of the Medical School class of 1943. He
was certified in orthopedic medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minn., in 1949.
During World War II he served in Europe with the
U.S. Army as an orthopedic surgeon. After the war, he returned to
California and began work as an orthopedic specialist on the Monterey
Peninsula.
Spaulding was active in the Stanford Medical Alumni
Association and served as SMAA president for 1964-65.
He was a member of many medical organizations, including
the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Orthopedics.
He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Community Hospital
of the Monterey Peninsula.
He is survived by his wife of 13 years, Dorris, and
four daughters, two sons and two grandchildren. His first wife,
Katharine, died in 1978.
The family suggests that any memorial contributions
be sent to the donorÿs favorite charity.
HYMAN J. ZIMMERMAN,
University and Medical School alum, died of cancer July 12, 1999,
at the age of 84.
Zimmerman was recognized widely among the medical
community for his expertise in liver disease. He was one of the
worldÿs leading authorities on toxic liver injury and the author
of the textbook, Hepatotoxicity.
He was born in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from
the University of Rochester. He received both his masterÿs degree
in bacteriology and his medical degree (class of 1943) from Stanford.
During World War II he served as a physician with the U.S. Army.
After the war, he served as an assistant medical resident at George
Washington and Gallinger hospitals in Washington, D.C.
During the 1950s and early 1960s he served at Veterans
Affairs hospitals in Omaha and Chicago and taught at medical schools
in those cities. He returned to Washington in 1965 as chief of the
liver and metabolic research laboratory at the VA medical center.
He left for Boston in 1968 to work at the VA medical center there
and to serve on the medical faculties at Tufts and Boston universities.
Zimmerman again returned to Washington in 1971 to serve as chief
of medicine at the VA hospital and to teach at George Washington
University and Georgetown University.
Later, he became senior clinician at the VA hospital
and director of gastroenterology at George Washington University
Medical Center. Subsequent posts included a clinical professorship
at the Uniformed Armed Services University of Health Sciences in
Bethesda, Md., and þdistinguished physicianú at the VA hospital
in Washington.
His wife, Kathrin Zimmerman, died 10 years ago and
a son, Robert Zimmerman, died five years ago.
Zimmerman is survived by a daughter and two sons
and three grandchildren.
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