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1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Obituaries

1940s

WILLIAM E. CUNHA, '46, announces he is retired in the Carson Valley town of Minden, Nev.

LOVELL LANGSTROTH, '43, notes "a wonderfully adventuresome" second career in marine biology and the publication of A Living Bay/the Underwater World of Monterey Bay (University of California Press, 2000).

PHILIP R. LEE, '48, writes, "I am enjoying my third retirement – teaching undergraduates in the Human Biology Program. The future of medicine looks very bright from this angle because the students are very bright, very much involved in community service and deeply committed to medicine."

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1950s

TIMOTHY J. FOGEL, '53, lives in a small Colorado village, called Beulah. He had a severe coronary last year "but [is] still afloat." He is learning to paint "as a way to stay interested."

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1960s

LAWRENCE H. COHN, '62, was honored as the first chair in cardiac surgery at Harvard Medical School, the Hubbard Chair, at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

FREDERIC PLATT, '64, notes his most recent book, The Field Guide to the Difficult Patient Interview (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 1999), has been issued in Japanese.

MARIA V. SMITH, '68, writes, "I am celebrating my first grandchild – Isaac Elliott McKenna – [who] arrived on 4/7; kids doing great and am still enjoying private psychiatric practice in Concord [Mass.]. See you all in 2003!"

AUGUSTUS A. WHITE III, '61, was named to the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the NIH. The 14-member council is charged with advising federal officials on the conduct and support of research, training and dissemination of information addressing minority health disparity. White is the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medical Education at Harvard and orthopedic surgeon-in-chief emeritus at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston.

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1970s

HOWARD D. ARKANS, '70, moved back East, closer to his children and grandchild. He writes, "Sue and I miss California but the Berkshires are beautiful."

N. PATRICK HALE, '73 (resident), was selected "Favorite Ophthalmologist 2001-02" of St. Augustine, Fla., by readers of the St. Augustine Record newspaper.

JEFFREY M. LEVINE, '77, was named chair of the Department of Psychiatry of Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center in New York City. He writes, "It's a long way from 'the Golden Hills."

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1980s

DIANA W. BIANCHI, '80, was named the first recipient of the Natalie V. Zucker Professorship at Tufts University School of Medicine. A leading expert on fetal and neonatal genetics, she serves as chief of the division of genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at Tufts-New England Medical Center and professor of pediatrics and of obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts medical school. She is senior associate editor of the American Journal of Medical Genetics and associate editor of Genetics in Medicine.

SILVIA G. CORRAL, '80, has practiced for the last four years in a multi-specialty group in Lompoc, Calif. She continues to develop "new expertise in family medicine." She notes that returning to Santa Barbara has allowed her parents to enjoy their grandchildren.

PETER Z. TARCZY-HORNOCH, '89, an associate professor at the University of Washington, was promoted to head the school's division of biomedical and health informatics, Department of Medical Education and Health Informatics. He holds a joint appointment in the division of neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics.

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1990s

MICHAEL Y.C. CHAN, '97, has started his cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He invites any alumni visiting the Baltimore/D.C. area to contact him.

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Obituaries

Victor Richards, MD
 

Victor Richards, MD
1919-2003

Medical school alumnus Vic Richards dies at 84

Victor Richards, MD, a noted surgeon and distinguished alumnus, died July 13 in Sonoma, Calif. He was 84. Richards, who provided leadership from the early days of transplantation surgery and transplantation research, was revered for his warmth and dedication as a teacher and mentor.

In 1992 Richards received, with Sidney Raffel, MD, Stanford’s J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Alumni Achievement Award, known as the “Mule Shoe” award.

Richards entered UCLA in 1932, received his undergraduate degree from UC-Berkeley in 1935 and finished medical school in 1939 at the age of 20. He was too young to get a license to practice medicine so he began teaching medical students to support himself. Following the completion of general surgery and orthopedics residencies in 1943, Richards stayed at Stanford and trained physicians for the war effort.

He chaired the Department of Surgery from 1955 until 1959, when the medical school moved from San Francisco to Palo Alto. Richards then joined Presbyterian Medical Center and Children’s Hospital as chief of staff. He served on medical boards in the United States and internationally and as a clinical professor of surgery at Stanford and at UC-San Francisco.

Richards, whose wife Jennette died in 1995, is survived by his children and grandchildren including his daughter Lane Kress and grandson Kevin Kress.

Contributions in his memory may be sent to the Elsbach-Richards Professorship in Surgery, Office of Medical Development, 770 Welch Road #400, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, or to Operation Access, 690 Market Street #1003, San Francisco, CA, 94104.

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Deaths

RALPH GIANELLY, MD, class of 1961, died in June at the age of 67 from complications of a stomach tumor. He was chief of cardiology at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., where he had worked for 30 years until his retirement in 2001. He was well-respected in the Springfield area and helped make Baystate a regional center of excellence.

NELL FRANCES HOLLINGER, PhD, class of 1944, died April 23 in Carson City, Nev., at the age of 97. A professor of public health at UC-Berkeley from 1944 until 1970 when she retired, she worked on the development and production of the first beta-hemolytic-streptococcal streptolysin for national distribution and thus the first successful breakthrough of a nationally available test for the clinical syndrome of rheumatic fever. Contributions may be made in her memory to the Stanford University School of Medicine Scholarship Fund.

GEORGE J. LAIRD, MD, class of 1940, a prominent area surgeon for 30 years who served as chief of surgery and twice as chief of staff at Peninsula Hospital, Burlingame, Calif., died May 4. He was 87. An alumnus of the university and the medical school, he also completed his residency at Stanford Hospital. He served as a surgery instructor at Stanford from 1948 to 1958 and one term as president of the Stanford Medical Alumni Association.

E. PRICE STOVER, MD, class of 1988, a superb teacher appreciated for his sense of humor and fairness, died May 24. He graduated from Stanford University in 1982 and then spent two years doing research in endocrinology at the medical school. He continued his work for the next four years through the Medical Scholars Program while studying for his medical degree.

Following a residency in anesthesia and a fellowship in cardiac anesthesia at Stanford, he went on to become a full-time clinical assistant professor, teaching anesthesiology to medical students, residents and fellows. Contributions to resident teaching in his memory may be sent to Jane Duperrault (Dr. Stover Fund) Room H3580, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5640.

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