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1940s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Obituaries
1940s
ROBERT B. HARRIS, '47 -- From Sacramento, Harris sent news of some classmates. He wrote that WYLIE HARTMAN is busy in Sonoma with banjo and gardening, GORDON HOLMES is off to Hawaii and a Pacific surgical meeting, SEY KINSELL is still active in Santa Barbara and ROBERT RYAN published his second volume, Recycled Wine Boxes and Memories. Harris noted, sadly, that classmates JAMES GAULT and CHARLES MILLER have passed away.
LOVELL LANGSTROTH, '43 -- After retiring from medical practice, he and his wife, Libby, pursued a career in marine biology, studying at Hopkins Marine Station and making more than 600 dives in Monterey Bay. They published A Living Bay, the Underwater World of Monterey Bay. They now live in a retirement community in Pacific Grove, Calif., along with classmate WALTER HARTZELL, '43, and his wife, Ginna.
RALPH SCHAFFARZICK, '46 -- The Stanford University Alumni Association honored "Schaff" (class of '43) with an Associates Award, which recognizes exemplary volunteer service over an extended period. The award, which has been given since 1980, represents a commitment to the betterment of Stanford and an uncommon gift of self, time and energy. The awards ceremony was held in June at the Arrillaga Center.
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1960s
LAURENCE A. BOXER, '66 -- He was named the Henry and Mala Dorfman Family Professor in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan. He serves as director of pediatric hematology/oncology and associate chair of the Department of Pediatrics.
ROBERT P. ERICKSON, '65 -- He noted the publication of his book Inborn Errors of Development: The Molecular Basis of Clinical Disorders of Morphogenesis (Oxford University Press 2004), edited with Charles Epstein and Anthony Wynshaw-Boris. It addresses the dysmorphic syndromes for which the gene has been cloned.
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1970s
R. DENNIS COLLINS, '70 (endocrinology resident) -- Collins was appointed medical director of the Santa Clara Family Health Plan. He was in private practice in internal medicine and endocrinology from 1971 to 1990. For the past two decades he has served as a senior medical officer with health-care groups in Burlingame, San Francisco, San Mateo and Walnut Creek. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Physician Executives.
J. STEPHEN MEREDITH, '70 -- Meredith is a practicing psychiatrist in Cincinnati and a classical singer, performing vocal recitals several times a year.
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1980s
CHARITY JOHANSSON, '82 (physical therapy) -- An associate professor at Elon University, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, she recently received the Excellence in Teaching Award. She is certified by the American Physical Therapy Association as a clinical specialist in geriatrics. Johansson lives in Burlington, N.C., with her three children.
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Obituaries
JAN 'YANA' ALBAN, MD, class of 1955B, died March 12 following complications from a neck fracture. He was born in 1928 in Shanghai, his family having fled Russia. From an early age Alban was determined to come to the United States to study and to practice pediatrics. He graduated from UCLA in 1950 and earned his medical degree five years later, the same year he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Before completing his residency at the University of Minnesota, he moved to Japan in 1957 to serve as chief of pediatric services at a U.S. Air Force base. While there he provided food and medical care to nearby orphanages. After finishing his residency he returned to San Francisco and set up an "old school" pediatrics practice including house calls and record keeping by hand. He is survived by his wife, Donna, two daughters and four grandchildren.
THOMAS A. BARKAN, MD, class of 1953, died March 12 following a long battle with prostate cancer. Barkan, who was born in San Francisco in 1926, received his undergraduate degree from Stanford. He was a third-generation ophthalmologist. His grandfather was longtime Stanford professor Adolph Barkan and his father was Otto Barkan, known for his work on glaucoma. Thomas Barkan practiced at San Francisco Children's and St. Joseph's hospitals and maintained a private ophthalmology practice for 25 years. For the past four years he participated as a patient in a trial of cancer treatments at Mount Zion Cancer Center in San Francisco. He is survived by his wife, Victoria, and daughter.
PAUL CAMPBELL, MD, class of 1949, died May 9. He was 79. He earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford in 1945 and after medical school he completed an internship and residency at the University of Michigan. He served as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy. He was in private practice for 30 years with the Portland Orthopaedics Clinic. He served as chief of staff at the Shriners Hospital for Children. He was a clinical professor at Oregon Health & Science University. He was an examiner for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons and belonged to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America and SICOT (the international orthopedics society). He served on the Oregon Traffic Safety Foundation. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. Campbell served as president of Stanford Medical Alumni Association in 1978. He is survived by his wife, Dawn, five children and three grandchildren.
MARTIN H. CRUMRINE, MD, class of 1940, of San Marino, Calif., died Oct. 2, 2003. He was 89. He served during World War II as a surgeon in the U.S. Army medical corps. Afterward he was in private practice in the Pasadena area and chief of staff at Huntington Memorial Hospital and St. Luke Hospital. He served as president of the Pasadena Medical Society and the Surgical Forum. Crumrine is survived by his wife, Dorothea, two daughters, one son, nine grandchildren, three stepgrandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
PERSHING DEGOLIA, MD, class of 1954, died Feb. 17 of pulmonary fibrosis at 78. He had just begun his first year at UC-Berkeley when he left to serve in the 1st Infantry in the European theater during World War II. His unit was on Utah Beach during the invasion of Normandy; he fought at the Battle of the Bulge and in the Huertgen Forest standoff. He was awarded a Purple Heart. He served as a military policeman after the war during the Nuremberg trials. He returned to Berkeley, went to Stanford medical school and settled in Santa Rosa. He was in private medical practice and active as president of the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce and a member of the American, California and Sonoma County medical associations. DeGolia and his wife, Didi, loved to fly and earned pilot's licenses. After retiring in 1984, he became a travel agent and led group trips around the world. He is survived by four children and nine grandchildren; Didi died in 2002.
GRANT FLETCHER, MD, class of 1946, died March 24 shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. He was born in San Francisco in 1922 and was educated at Berkeley and Stanford. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army medical corps and in 1947 entered family medical practice in Sonoma. Later he joined the Mayo Clinic for a residency in anesthesiology and practiced in Carmel, Calif. He became an associate professor of anesthesiology at Stanford in 1963 and founded the inhalation therapy program. He left in 1972 to manage the family ranch in Sonoma and developed expert knowledge of vineyards. Fletcher served as director and research chair of the Audubon Canyon Ranch and chaired the City of Sonoma Planning Commission. He is survived by his wife, Virginia, four sons and six grandchildren.
MADGE PEIRSOL, MD, class of 1929, died Jan. 9. Born in 1899, she spanned a century and reached 104. A second-generation native Californian, she grew up in Mendocino, where her father was a physician. After receiving her degree, she began practicing in Southern California. In 1936 she relocated to Fresno and started a private practice with classmate Margaret Eakin, MD, a pediatrician, who died in 1979. Though a general practitioner, Peirsol delivered hundreds of babies over the years and had many namesakes. In 1972 she retired to the historic town of Coarsegold. In her 90s Peirsol sailed the waters of the San Juan Islands and Alaska and hiked into the wilderness of Yosemite. In 1991 she moved to Oakhurst and shared a home with longtime friend Dwight Barnes, whose children she had delivered. She is survived by four nieces, many grandnieces and grandnephews, Barnes, his three children as well as their children.
T. SCOTT STRATHAIRN, MD, class of 1946, died Dec. 13, 2003, after a long struggle with heart disease. A native of Hawaii, he came to Stanford for his undergraduate and medical degrees. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. He was recalled during the Korean War and served on the carrier ship Philippine Sea. He was a founding member of Marin General Hospital and served several terms as chief of staff. He received the Outstanding Physician of Marin award in 1995. His community and philanthropic service included fund raising for the YMCA, the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association and working with San Rafael Rotary, the St. Andrews Society and the Commonwealth Club. He is survived by his wife, Louise, three children and six grandchildren.
FRANK WINTER, MD, class of 1946, died Jan. 17 in La Jolla, Calif., of a heart attack. He was born in Charlotte, N.C., in 1922. He earned his undergraduate degree in biological sciences at Stanford. He served on the clinical faculty from 1955 to 1974. He directed the eye pathology laboratory from 1955 to 1971 and served as acting chief of the ophthalmology division from 1959 to 1967. His devotion to vision care and international outreach included providing eye care in the Republic of Botswana, establishing eye clinics in Ghana and performing similar work in Baja California and Central America. He founded the Christian Eye Ministry, now a division of International Aid Inc. In 2003 he received the J. Lawton Smith Award from the Christian Ophthalmology Society. Survivors include his wife, Joy, two daughters, two sons and five grandchildren, two stepchildren and seven stepgrandchildren.
Extended obituaries are online from the Stanford Medical Alumni Association. Paper copies are available from the SMAA: (650) 234-0619.
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