Volume 17 Number 3 FALL 2000

C L A S S N O T E S

1940s

RUSSEL HEWLETT LEE, '49, received the "Lifetime Achievement" award presented by the Palo Alto Senior Center on May 21, 2000.

RALPH SCHAFFERZICK, '46, reports that a front-page article in the August 4 Wall Street Journal mentions classmate and legendary surfer DORIAN "DOC" PASKOWITZ, '46. The article, "Going Hollywood," notes that Paskowitz was organizing a surf camp for journalists covering the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles.

ROY S. STANFORD, '46, is still in private practice of general surgery in Sacramento.

1950s

RICHARD E. ANDERSON, '55A, now retired, practiced internal medicine in East San Fernando Valley ("a great life," he says) and served as clinical professor of medicine with the University of Southern California School of Medicine (he is now emeritus). He also served on the medical staff and in administrative affairs with Saint Joseph Hospital, Burbank, Calif., and as chief medical officer with the Southern California Providence Health Care System. He married during his pre-med years and two of his children were born while he was in medical school and two during his residency. Now his children and 13 grandchildren "keep us young," he writes. He enjoys travel, reading and golf but his handicap "refuses to go down."

SIDNEY HOWARD, '55A, sends this update: "Most importantly, our family remains well with no serious medical events to impair the joy of being alive. Irene and I have been married for nearly 48 years and our devotion to each other continues to grow." He retired from active medical practice and teaching two years ago but keeps current through active reading and frequent meetings. "I have the continuing opportunity to return to teaching clinical medicine at USC, but I have decided that retirement is too much fun," he writes. Nonetheless, "I have never lost my love of medicine and the gift it has brought to my life."

ALLEN J. MARTIN, '55A, who retired in '96, travels extensively, including trips to Kenya, Tanzania, the Bahamas, China, Tibet and the Amazon (Peru) and also to Alaska, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and to the eastern U.S.

JACK E. MCCLEARY, '51, sends this update: "My wife Marian and I are celebrating our 50th in June and then off to Scotland, Ireland and London with a small group of friends."

JAMES H. MOLLER, '58, who is professor and head of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, has a new book in print. Pediatric Cardiovascular Medicine, published in June by Churchill-Livingstone, is his 13th book related to cardiovascular problems in childhood.

CARL F. VON ESSEN, '52, writes, "Manisha and I live in retirement on the shores of Buzzard's Bay in Massachusetts. Our lives are quiet: We write, read, garden and walk. Sailing an old Cape Cod Catboat is one of the summer joys."

1960s

HOWARD FIELDS, '65, spends most of his time running a research lab with a focus on the neuroscience of pain and addiction. He does some general neurology and attends a clinic for patients with chronic pain. "Neurologist by training, psychiatrist by interest, philosopher by temperament, my life is very interesting and rewarding," he writes. "The Ivory Tower seems a natural habitat but the discipline and responsibility of patient care have kept me firmly anchored to the Earth." He regrets having spent so little time in the mountains and plans to spend August at Lake Tahoe and the Desolation Wilderness.

DIANE E. GRIFFIN, '68, (and PhD, Stanford) is currently chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

JOHN W. GRIFFIN, '68, is chair of the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

JOHN D. JOHNSON, '65, retired in January and works part time with Pediatric Endocrine Outreach in New Mexico. He served on the Stanford faculty in the Division of Neonatology for several years before joining the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where he chaired the Department of Pediatrics. He and his wife June celebrated their 40th anniversary this year.

ROBERT VIOLANTE, '65, who is currently in the process of retiring from the business of medicine, notes that three years ago, he and his partners sold their emergency medicine practice management group, Associated Emergency Physicians, to EmCare Holdings of Dallas. He stayed on for three years as regional president and will continue to see patients on a part-time basis. "After 26 years it's a hard habit to give up," he writes. "At the same time, my wife Barbara and I are restoring our 75-year-old home, here on University Avenue in Palo Alto. ... We are also raising our 10-year-old daughter, Cristina, who is a delight to be around. The other four kids have flown the coop, and I have four grandchildren, inhabiting different parts of the country," he notes.

1970s

ROBERT C. ABER, '70, senior associate dean for medical education and professor of medicine at Penn State College of Medicine, is the first faculty holder of the Dr. C. McCollister and Nancy L. Evarts Chair in Medical Education. He has been at the College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., for 25 years. On a personal note, he and Karen recently celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary. She works as a part-time occupational health nurse at Hershey Foods and their daughter Jennifer, a Princeton graduate, is a doctoral student in counseling and sport psychology at Boston University.

ANNE BAILOWITZ, '79, practices pediatrics and public heath in Baltimore and directs peds and quality assurance for Jai Medical System. "I miss the West and hope to re-locate at some point. Please call with any good leads or just to say 'Hi,' " she writes.

N. PATRICK HALE, '73 (resident), is an FAA aviation medical examiner in St. Augustine, Fla. He recently obtained his airplane instrument and multi-engine rating and is pursuing commercial and flight instructor ratings. He practices part time at The Eye Center of St. Augustine and serves as an ophthalmology consultant to the Florida School for Deaf and Blind.

FRED HEIDRICH, '76, sends this update: "After graduation, my wife Joyce and I headed up to Seattle for a family practice residency at the University of Washington, planning to enjoy three years of the Northwest and then return to California. Twenty-four years and two children later, we are still here." After residency and a Robert Wood Johnson fellowship, he started teaching at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, where he now serves as residency director. "A real pleasure of my employment is the chance to take a year off every seven years. Our family made a voyage around the world ... during one of those sabbaticals ... [and] we just got back from an extended stay in China for another," he writes.

ILONA HIRSCH, '79, served as orthopaedic surgeon to the Bolshoi Ballet, the Kirov Ballet and the Danish Ballet companies and as a solo medical practitioner in Beverly Hills, Calif., for 12 years (1985-1997).

FERNANDO MENDOZA, '75, writes, "Well, after thirty years at Stanford, it is starting to feel like home. It has been enjoyable to see students come and go and to see the place grow and develop. I have been very lucky to help minority students as associate dean and direct pediatric programs to underserved children as chief of the Division of General Pediatrics."

BERTHA MOSESON, '75, sends this update: "I am married with three daughters, the eldest now a sophomore at Stanford. The other two still at home. I have taken a five-year interim retirement to be involved in their activities and plan to return to practice (ob/gyn) when the youngest is in high school."

BOBBETTE RANNEY, '70, describes her varied and interesting professional life including five years with a maternal and child health project in Fort Apache, Ariz.; private practice in Maryvale, Ariz., and Brighton, Colo.; two years as emergency room attending in a children's hospital in Denver; and ten years on the clinical faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She also notes serving with the National Ski Patrol, playing golf though a partial paraplegic following a near-fatal disabling auto accident in October 1986 and for 19 years operating a small-scale sheep and cattle ranch on 35 acres in Colorado.

1980s

DOUGLAS DAWLEY, '80, is an interventional cardiologist with the Oregon Clinic and is also involved in clinical research. He writes, "Am not as involved with music as I would like to be. However, my kids are." He and wife Paula have three daughters, ages 6, 8 and 10.

FREDERICK GOGGANS, '81, has been named medical director for psychiatric and addictive disease services at Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine. Goggans is a 1981 alumnus of the Stanford Psychiatric Residency Program.

COLIN MAR, '80, who is married and has two children, has served as a radiologist with Kaiser, Walnut Creek, Calif., since 1985.

DOUGLAS MCKIMM, '80, is currently director of Qualified Emergency Specialists Inc., a group of 70 physicians staffing eight hospital facilities in the Cincinnati area. He is married to Toni, whom he met while doing his orthopedic med school clerkship at Sun Valley, Idaho. They have three children, Kristen, 14; Eric, 13; and Allison, 12. "I continue to run (completed my first marathon last year) and golf whenever possible," he writes and also notes that he misses the Bay Area and friends.

LYNN SMOLIK, '83, is in private practice on Welch Road (Palo Alto) and enjoys it very much. "I never thought I'd be here this long!" she says.

1990s

JACQUELINE CHANG, '93, notes "lots of changes": She completed her subspecialty training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington and is now on staff at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla; she also got married to Dr. Ross Schwartzberg, who did his radiology training at Stanford.

RUEBEN GRANICH, '93, and JONATHAN MERMIN, '92, have authored HIV, Health, and Your Community (Stanford University Press 1999). The 245-page book, subtitled "A Guide for Action," includes topics ranging from the biology of the virus to designing prevention programs. The authors have worked in several countries on various aspects of HIV, including education, medical care, epidemiology, public policy and laboratory research.

LUJEAN JENNINGS, '93 (resident), has adopted two children, Katlyn Elizabeth, now four years old, and Nicholas David, now one. She is in private practice in Buffalo, N.Y.

ROBERT KEELEY, '92, his wife Peggy Driscoll and their one-year-old son Hunter Keeley, have a new address: 350 Lincoln St., Longmont, Colo., 80501.

HIREN R. PATEL, '97, writes: "was married to Shital last summer and we are expecting our first child this fall! Please drop us a line: 44 Washington St. #417, Brookline, Mass., 02445, 617-738-1548, hiren@stanfordalumni.org."

Deaths

School of Medicine alumnus (class of 1942) JOSEPH J. ALBRECHT, MD, a longtime family physician, died March 8, 2000, in San Francisco, at the age of 85.

Longtime pediatrician and World War II veteran, WILLIAM T. AULD, MD, School of Medicine (class of 1936), died May 11, 2000, in Stockton at the age of 91.

Former president of the California Medical Association (CMA), THOMAS N. ELMENDORF, MD, School of Medicine, class of 1945, died June 30. Along with three other alumni who served as CMA presidents, he received the J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Alumni Achievement Award in 1998.

Stanford medical alumnus, class of 1962, H. ANTHONY ENGELBRECHT, MD, a clinical professor of radiation therapy, died May 25 at the age of 64. Engelbrecht, who directed radiation oncology at Summit Medical Center, served as chair of the Stanford Medical Fund (1978-82) and as president of the Stanford Medical Alumni Association (1996-97).

Retired general practitioner TOKIO ISHIKAWA, MD, Stanford University (class of 1931) and School of Medicine (class of 1935), died July 5, 1998.

Stanford University and School of Medicine alumnus (class of 1951) EDWARD K. MARKELL, MD, PHD, died June 22, 1998, at the age of 80. The 8th edition of his medical parasitology textbook was published in the same year.

San Francisco neurosurgeon WILLIAM A. NEWSOM, MD, a clinical instructor at Stanford School of Medicine from 1951 to 1961, died February 7, 2000, at the age of 84.

Stanford University and School of Medicine alumnus (class of 1946) DAROLD JACK PARSONS, MD, a retired Kaiser physician, died February 21, 2000, in Walnut Creek, Calif. He was 79.

Stanford University (class of 1926) and School of Medicine (class of 1930) alumnus JOHN E. RAAF, MD, a Portland, Ore., neurosurgeon, died April 11, 2000. He was 94.

Dermatologist and pioneering dermatology researcher JULIUS R. SCHOLTZ, MD, Stanford University (class of 1930) and School of Medicine (class of 1934), died January 25, 2000, at the age of 91.

School of Medicine alumnus (class of 1945) PELLETIER H. SUPPLE, MD, died December 11, 1999, in Pasadena, Calif. He practiced gynecology and obstetrics in Pasadena.

Specialist in neuropsychiatry LEON J. WHITSELL, MD, School of Medicine (class of 1939), died January 24, 2000, in San Francisco. He served on the faculty of the Medical School in San Francisco before the move to Palo Alto. SMD