Class Notes
1940s 1940sTED W. LORING, 46, was honored by the executive board of the Redwood Empire Council of the Boy Scouts of America with the groups Distinguished Citizen Award. In addition to Lorings medical practice in obstetrics and gynecology, he was instrumental in starting the nursing school at Humboldt State University, the Humboldt-Del Norte Foundation for Medical Care and a perinatal clinic. 1960s The medical school class of 1963, which has only four members, met
in San Diego in December for their own reunion. SHERMAN BUTLER, 63, retired from his career as a forensic psychiatrist
and is enjoying a life of leisure with frequent world travel. HOWARD KUSUMOTO, 63, has enjoyed a career in the private practice
of pediatrics but he is now slowing down. However, he continues
to provide his expertise in child abuse cases. DIANE MITCHELL, 63, who retired after a career in pediatric rehabilitation
at Rancho Los Amigos in Downey, Calif., continues to provide part-time
care for adults with spina bifida. COL. THOMAS SCULLY, 63, retired from active duty in 1996 after
nearly 30 years of service as an orthopedic surgeon with the U.S. Army.
He then served for seven years with the VA but is looking forward to
retiring in 2003. RICHARD A. SMITH, 69 (resident), a neurologist, received the Skaggs
clinical scholar award at The Scripps Research Institute. RONALD THOMPSON, '65, recently joined the radiation oncology team at
Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He was chair of radiation
oncology at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, for 30 years and he is an adjunct
professor at UCLA as well as a fellow of the American College of Radiology. AUGUSTUS A. WHITE III, 61, was honored with the Elmer and Rosemary
Nix Ethics Award at the annual meeting of the Clinical Orthopaedic Society
for his lifes work in teaching by precept the ethical practice
of orthopedics. | Back to Top | 1970s DAVID A. McMAHON, 75, received a promotion to head the geriatric
psychiatry program at a division of Northeast Hospital Corp., a nonprofit
hospital system on Bostons North Shore. JOHN D. SCHRUMPF, 78 (resident), who is vice chairman of radiology at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and an associate clinical professor at UC-San Francisco, noted he had somewhat mixed loyalties at Big Game 2002; his son Mark is a senior at Stanford and his son Eric is an MBA student at UC-Berkeley. | Back to Top | 1980sSTEVEN B. BROWN, 82, (resident), is president-elect of the medical staff at Exempla Lutheran Medical | Back to Top | 1990s MAHER ABBAS, 94, 96 (resident), completed a colon and
rectal surgery fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Florida. DERYK JONES, 91, was inducted as a fellow of the American Association
of Orthopaedic Surgeons at the organizations annual meeting in
New Orleans in February. He interned in general surgery at Brigham and
Womens Hospital and completed a residency in orthopedic surgery
at Harvard and a sports medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.
He has been an assistant professor at Tulane School of Medicine since
1998. STEVEN MOST, 95, was named chief of the division of facial plastic
and reconstructive surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He and wife Beth have two daughters, ages 2 1/2 and 5. He extends an
invitation to any alumni visiting the Seattle area to contact him. VERONICA REJTO, 90, a pediatrician, announced the birth of her second son, Elijah Edward, on July 28, 2002. Her first son, Alexander, is 4 1/2. | Back to Top | DeathsDONALD R. BUNCE, MD, JOSEPH H. DAVIS, MD, GORDON GOODHART, MD, MILTON S. WALDMAN, MD, | Back to Top | |
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