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Class Notes

1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Obituaries

1950s

THOMAS P. LOWRY, ’57 (MD) — He wrote to say his new book, Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, has just been published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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1960s

PATRICIA G. ENGASSER, ’62 (MD) — She is the recipient of the 2005 Rose Hirschler Award, presented annually by the Women’s Dermatologic Society to physicians who have made significant contributions to medicine and dermatology and have enhanced the role of women in the dermatologic specialty. She is currently a clinical professor of dermatology at UC-San Francisco.

DAVID C. HUETER, ’69 (MD) — He is former head of cardiology at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill. He is now retired and is dividing his time between enjoying the beauty of the Colorado mountains and sailing in the Caribbean.

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1970s

MOLLY COOKE, ’77 (MD) — She has been elected governor of the Northern California chapter of the American College of Physicians, the world’s largest medical specialty society. She assumed office in April during the society’s annual meeting, which took place in San Francisco.

JEFFREY LEVINE, ’77 (MD) — He wrote to say he is having a “pretty wild” time completing his fourth year as chair of psychiatry at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in New York. His daughter, Ruth, is now a freshman at Stanford and his 12-year-old son Adam is expecting a golf scholarship!

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1980s

CHARITY JOHANSSON, ’87 (PhD) — She was recently promoted to the rank of full professor in the Department of Physical Therapy Education at Elon University. She also received the 2005 Distinguished Educator Award from the American Physical Therapy Association’s Section on Geriatrics.

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1990s

DAVID R. VANDERSTEEN, ’90 (MD) — He is quite busy these days since he is vice chief of surgery at the Children’s Hospital & Clinics in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and an assistant professor of urology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine.

HOSSEIN JADVAR, ’98 (radiology residency) — He sent a note full of good news: “I am a tenure-track assistant professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. I also hold a joint faculty appointment in the bioengineering program of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. I recently was elected fellow of the American College of Nuclear Medicine and the American College of Nuclear Physicians, and my first book, Clinical PET and PET-CT, was recently published.” He adds that since 2002 he has been a part-time summer student at Harvard University working toward a master’s of public health degree which he will be completing this summer. He lives with his wife, Mojgan Maher, DDS, and his 2-year-old daughter, Donya Sara, in the foothills of Mount Wilson in Pasadena, Calif.

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2000s

HEIDI L. WITHERELL, ’01 (MD) — She’s enjoying her second year of her residency in anesthesia at Stanford, especially since so many of her colleagues from the class of 2002 are with her.

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Obituaries

ALBERT B. HAGEDORN, class of 1943, died Feb. 8, 2005, at Charter House retirement center in Rochester, Minn. He was 90. Born in Salt Lake City, Hagedorn earned his medical degree from Stanford in 1943, and interned at Southern Pacific General Hospital in San Francisco. Shortly after, he was a fellow at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, and in 1946, he joined the Mayo Clinic staff and became a professor of medicine in 1969. He headed the section of hematology until 1976 and retired in 1985. Hagedorn was also an environmentalist and spent a lot of time in his greenhouse. He is survived by his wife, their four children, two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

MAX L. DIMICK, class of 1944, died peacefully Oct. 2, 2004, in his Sacramento home of 50 years. He was 87. Dimick grew up in Bancroft, Idaho, as one of seven children. He graduated from the School of Medicine in 1944 and served as an Army captain and chief of surgical services in the Philippines during World War II. In 1949 he moved to Sacramento where he set up his practice as an obstetrician and gynecologist and delivered more than 5,000 babies during his 35 years of practice. Dimick also served both as president of the local medical association and as an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UC-Davis. Dimick has contributed to a number of causes to benefit the medical school at Stanford. He is survived by his son, three granddaughters and four great-grandchildren. His wife and other son predeceased him.

WILLIAM H. HOMACH, class of 1947, died April 16, 2004. He was 80. Hombach was born in Grand Island, Neb. He earned his medical degree in 1947 and served as flight surgeon in the Air Force during the Korean War. He served as an obstetrician for 35 years in Billings, Mont., and moved to Dewey, Ariz., when he retired. Hombach is survived by his wife, a daughter, a son and four grandchildren.

JOHN P. JONES, class of 1962, died peacefully Jan. 25, 2005, at his home in Salinas surrounded by his wife and children. He was 71. Jones grew up in Long Beach, but was born in Fayetteville, Ark. He married his childhood sweetheart, Nancy, in 1952 and had three children. After earning his medical degree from Stanford in 1962, Jones worked in emergency medicine. He then opened a private practice in family medicine when he and his family moved to Salinas in 1975. He loved medicine so much that he worked until he was forced to retire in 2000. “Bud,” as many called him, enjoyed traveling with his family, woodworking and playing Scrabble and bridge. He is survived by his three sons, two daughters, a sister, five nieces, two nephews and six grandchildren.

DANIEL C. IHDE, class of 1969, died Dec. 9, 2004, at a retirement center in Rio Rancho, N.M., after battling a long illness. He was 61. Ihde grew up in Portales, N.M. He earned his medical degree from Stanford in 1969, and after internship and residencies in New York City, he took a position at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., starting a career there that spanned 21 years. Ihde served as director of the division of hematology and oncology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda; acted as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and held several professorships in medicine. He was also a past deputy director of the National Cancer Institute and a past chief of oncology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Ihde is survived by his mother, his wife and their two sons.

Extended obituaries are online from the Stanford Medical Alumni Association. Paper copies are available from the SMAA: (650) 234-0619.

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