Volume 18 Number 1 Winter/Spring 2001

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C L A S S N O T E S

1940s

LOVELL LANGSTROTH, '43, writes that he and Libby now live at Canterbury Woods Retirement Home in Pacific Grove, Calif. Their publication A Living Bay, the Underwater World of Monterey Bay was released by the University of California Press in October 2000.

1950s

THOMAS P. LOWRY, '57, in his most recent book relates the stories of 50 Civil War doctors who were court-martialed. He notes that "many of the themes are strikingly modern: medical decisions made by lay
administrators, benefits denied, peer review, fears of autopsy, the occasional bout of malpractice and even physicians with addiction problems," and also notes that each story is followed by a commentary by him and his co-author, a retired professor of gastroenterology. The book, titled Tarnished Scalpels and published by Stackpole in June 2000, has been reviewed on Amazon.com.

1960s

JOHN MINNA, '67, a faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas) and director the Nancy B. and Jake L. Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, received the Frank Moran Clinical Leadership Award from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The award, which was presented in October 2000, is given annually to one or two renowned physicians who have made outstanding contributions in the field of oncology.

LANDRUM S. TUCKER JR., '66, an adjunct clinical professor in the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, notes that he is president of North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society, training and supervising analyst at UNC-Duke Psychoanalytic Institute and on the board of directors of the Lucy Daniels Foundation and Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood. He and Ellie have two grandchildren, whom they enjoy "immensely." He also comments, "I hope renovation doesn't lose the atmosphere of the Edwards Building! I thought the courtyards and fountains were wonderful."

AUGUSTUS A. WHITE III, '61, orthopedic surgeon-in-chief emeritus, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has been named the first president of the J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society. Founded in 1998, JRGOS is a multiracial medical society dedicated to eliminating disparity in health care for minorities as related to the musculoskeletal system and committed to increasing diversity in the orthopedic profession as well as championing the practice of culturally competent orthopedic care. White, a professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard/MIT health sciences and technology division, chairs the diversity committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is author of the textbook, The Clinical Biomechanics of the Spine (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2nd ed. June 1990).

1970s

MICHAEL GRAVES, '70, lives in L.A. and works at UCLA. He and June enjoy traveling. Their son is a musician and their daughter is at UC-Santa Barbara studying chemistry.

RANDI HAGERMAN, '75, sends this update: "I am moving back to
California from Denver in December 2000 to become the Tsakapoulos-Vismara Professor of Pediatrics and director of the MIND Institute at UC-Davis. MIND stands for Medical Investigations of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and I will focus on research and treatment of autism and fragile X syndrome. My husband, PAUL HAGERMAN (1977 graduate) will also come to California as professor of biological chemistry at UC-Davis. Our daughter, Karin, who was born during my pediatrics residency at Stanford, is now a first-year medical student at the University of Colorado and received honors in the biochemistry course which her father taught."

1980s

RICHARD J. NOVICK, a cardiac surgeon who completed a yearlong fellowship (1987-88) at Stanford under Norman Shumway and returned to Canada to begin practice as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon, was appointed in November 2000 as professor and chair of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Western Ontario, as well as citywide chief of cardiac surgery at London (Ont.) Health Sciences Centre.

DEBRA A. SCHWINN, '83, has been appointed one of five members of the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council. The council, which meets three times a year, is composed of leaders in biological and medical sciences, education, health care and public affairs. Its members, appointed for four-year terms by the secretary of health and human services, review applications for research and research training grants that have been assigned to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Schwinn is a professor in the departments of anesthesiology, pharmacology/cancer biology and surgery at Duke University Medical Center. Her research ranges from clinical intervention trials in the perioperative period to basic research on the role of adrenaline-activated receptors in health and disease.

1990s

JUAN GUERRA, '97, has joined Providence Medical Group, Seattle, a network of more than 50 primary care doctors and other providers practicing in nine neighborhood clinics.

OLIVER W. HERNDON, '96, who is now in solo practice in internal medicine in Pittsburgh, and wife Linda have a son, Oliver Albert Herndon (born June 2, 2000).

JOSEFA RANGEL, '96, and PHILIP THEODOSOPOULOS, '96, send this happy news: "We are writing to joyfully announce our recent marriage." They met on their first day of medical school at Stanford in September 1992 and went off together to UC-San Francisco for their residencies, Philip in neurosurgery and Josefa in internal medicine. He is now in his fifth year of residency and she is completing a fellowship in applied epidemiology. The wedding, which took place on Aug. 26, 2000, in Thessaloniki, Greece, Philip's hometown, was attended by medical school classmates JEFF USTIN, '97, PAULINE TEREBUH, '97, and ERNEST HOPPE, '99.