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1940s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Deaths

1940s

TED W. LORING, ’46, was honored by the executive board of the Redwood Empire Council of the Boy Scouts of America with the group’s Distinguished Citizen Award. In addition to Loring’s 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.

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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 life’s work in teaching by precept the ethical practice of orthopedics.”
1970s

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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 Boston’s 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.

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1980s

STEVEN B. BROWN, ’82, (resident), is president-elect of the medical staff at Exempla Lutheran Medical

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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 organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans in February. He interned in general surgery at Brigham and Women’s 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.

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Deaths

DONALD R. BUNCE, MD,
class of 1977, April 15, 2003

JOSEPH H. DAVIS, MD,
class of 1938, March 5, 2003

GORDON GOODHART, MD,
class of 1943, April 10, 2003

MILTON S. WALDMAN, MD,
class of 1950, March 31, 2003

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