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

1940s

WILLIAM CUNHA, ’46 — He is retired and living in the Carson Valley town of Minden, Nev.

L. MARTIN GRIFFIN Jr., ’46 — His "Saving the Marin-Sonoma Coast: The Battles for Audubon Canyon Ranch," Point Reyes, & California’s Russian River, available in paperback, was chosen as a special selection by the Associates of Stanford University Libraries.

HAROLD LAMB, ’46 — “With regret Harold Lamb is unable to attend reunions or other events at Stanford due to problems with Parkinson’s disease.”

PHILIP R. LEE, ’48 — Since returning to the Bay Area from Washington, D.C., six years ago, he has been teaching in Stanford’s Program in Human Biology as a consulting professor. He has also continued research (on Medicare, prescription drugs and diversity in medical schools) and postdoctoral teaching at UCSF. Lee writes, “I have especially enjoyed women’s basketball and volleyball and men’s basketball since my return to God’s country.”

EARL B. MITCHELL, ’40 — “Please extend my very best regards to my living classmates in the 1940s. We had a great time!” writes Mitchell.

RALPH SCHAFFARZICK, ’46 — Also a university alumnus, ’43, Schaffarzick won a 2004 Stanford Associates Award for exemplary volunteer service over an extended period from the University Alumni Association.

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1950s

B. DWIGHT CULVER, ’53 — He is still at UC-Irvine, Department of Medicine and still in the organization ACGIH that sets occupational exposure limits. “Still sailing,” he adds.

HUMBERTO GONZALEZ, ’53 — “My intention was to call it quits in another 10 years,” he writes. “However, because of the paltry insurance reimbursements and the spiraling malpractice premiums, I have decided to switch from surgery to general practice.”

LEONARD A. HUGHES, ’50 — He is still working on a unique non-invasive method of monitoring blood glucose levels in diabetes. He invites fellow alums to contact him.

ROBERT L. JOHNSON, ’59 — Currently a clinical professor of otolaryngology at UCSF, he recently returned from a trip to Thailand, Bhutan and Laos, where he presented lectures on otolaryngology. “I’m still in practice after 35 years and enjoying it,” he writes.

MEI-LING KWEI (June Summers), ’55A — She’s alive and well and retired in San Francisco. Before retirement she worked as a psychiatrist in Chinatown Mental Health Clinic. She retired at age 60 and married at 62.

RICHARD G. LESTER, ’50-’51, ’53-’54 (resident) — “Those of us who were residents on Pacific Heights know that this campaign is not for a ‘new campus’; it is for a ‘new-new campus,’ ” writes Lester.

FRANCIS E. YATES, ’51, and MARGARET B. YATES, ’51 — Both have just retired but stay active professionally.

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1960s

RONALD ALLISON, ’68 (resident) — He is using his expertise as a health attorney to represent the California Urological Association at the California Medical Association’s House of Delegates.

J. DAVID GAINES, ’66 — He celebrated 28 years of internal medicine solo private practice. Gaines also teaches at Yale University School of Medicine where he was nominated each year for the past three years as “teacher of the year.”

MICHAEL MAGINNIS, ’64 — Now “semi-retired” from private practice in orthopedic surgery in Charleston, S.C., he is still working, doing locum tenens.

JAMES J. MONGAN, ’67 — As of 2003, he has assumed the position of president and CEO of Partners Healthcare System, the parent corporation of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.

HARVEY L. OZER, ’65 — A professor at New Jersey Medical School, he recently stepped down as department chair of microbiology and molecular genetics after 15 years and became senior associate dean of research. He enjoys life with Anna, his wife of two years, and children and grandchildren.

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1970s

ANNE BAILOWITZ, ’79 — She sent this note: “I just returned from a wonderful medical mission to Honduras. Study docs and students delivered pediatric, adult, ophthalmologic, orthopedic, podiatric and ob/gyn care to approximately 3,000 people during a five-day clinic. I emerged with a renewed commitment to clinical care in disadvantaged areas, as well as some new friends.” Her 15-year-old son Gabriel went with her. He was busy translating, staffing the pharmacy and making friends. They look forward to returning next year.

SUSAN BLUMENTHAL, ’78 (resident) — Blumenthal is U.S. assistant surgeon general, senior medical advisor and officer of global health affairs, Department of Health and Human Services.

BRICE N. BROWN, ’72 — For health reasons he retired from general surgery and now works as a gunsmith/firearms dealer in northeast Georgia.

ALAN EPSTEIN, ’78 — A professor of pathology at USC, Epstein writes that his son Aaron is a third-year medical student at USC and is enjoying clinical medicine. He adds, “I got my first drug approval in China for the treatment of lung cancer and am involved in several trials in the U.S. with antibody reagents developed in my laboratory.” He notes he is a graduate of Stanford’s (MD/PhD) Medical Scientist Training Program.

DANIEL FOSTER, ’74 — A Charleston, W.Va., physician and current member of the state House of Delegates, Foster is running for the state Senate. “I want to be in a situation where I can have the most impact on legislation that is most important to me: health-care legislation,” said Foster in a September Charleston Gazette article. Foster moved in the late ’70s from Tennessee to West Virginia and worked as a surgeon for the Charleston Area Medical Center. He left surgery and became an administrator at CAMC two years ago.

MICHAEL C. GRAVES, ’70 — Graves lives in Los Angeles with his wife, June. He is on the neurology faculty at UCLA.

JAY P. SIEGEL, ’77 — In March 2003, he began a new job as president of Centocor Research and Development, the biotechnology pharmaceutical research and development organization of Johnson & Johnson.

EDDIE PING-HO SO, ’75 — “Our family ties to Stanford are growing,” writes So. His daughter Tracy just graduated from Stanford with a degree in human biology and entered Stanford medical school in the fall. His daughter Megan started as a freshman at Stanford in September.

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1980s

SILVIA G. CORRAL, ’80 — She took an “unprecedented” three-week vacation to return to Mexico: “It was an adventure. My children had their first cross-cultural immersion, unable to escape into Nintendo. My father got to visit his home.”

DANIEL HABER, ’83 — Haber, who also has a PhD from Stanford, directs the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and chairs Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center’s cancer genetics program. He received a Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award and was elected to the American Association of Physicians.

PETER KIM, ’86 (PhD) — Kim, who is president of Merck Research Laboratories, recently joined the board of directors of Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia. Previously he served on the faculty at MIT and as a member of the Whitehead Institute. He is a designated member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.

BARBARA PARKER, ’81 — Parker is a professor of clinical medicine at UCSD, doing patient care, teaching and clinical research.

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1990s

TANYA ATAGI, ’94 — Following residencies in St. Louis, Atagi, a plastic surgeon, and her husband, Andy Fisher, a radiologist, started their family, two daughters. They now live and practice in Colorado.

SYLVIA L. CEREL, ’91 — She is working part time to be able to enjoy her 6- and 10-year-old “wonderful kids!” Cerel writes, “Family practice lets me have options in teaching and medicine.”

ETHAN FOXMAN, ’97 — He and ELLEN FOXMAN, ’01, are now on the East Coast for a residency and fellowship in Boston and enjoying their son Benjamin, who celebrated his first birthday.

CHRISTOPHER GROVER, ’91 — He sends this update: “I now have three children, Eliza and her twin sisters Mariah and Natalie. We recently moved to Menlo Park as my wife Ann Banchoff now works for the medical school.” He serves as director of ob/gyn for Stanislaus County and a large nonprofit community health center in Modesto and with the UC-Davis faculty practice program.

EVALEEN JONES, ’91 — Jones was included in Money magazine’s Dec. 3, 2003, feature, “Unsung Heroes,” on people who devote their time, energy and money to noble causes. She is the founder of Child Family Health International, which places medical students in impoverished communities abroad.

DANIEL L. KRAFT, ’96 — Lunar Design, of Palo Alto, named Kraft to its medical advisory board in 2003. Kraft, a senior fellow in pediatrics oncology/hematology at the medical school, joins board members Rajiv Doshi, a lecturer in Stanford’s department of medicine; JAMES I. FANN, ’96 (resident), an assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery; Stephen J. Ruoss, an associate professor of medicine; and DANIEL Y. SZE, ’87, associate professor of radiology.

STEPHEN KRON, ’90 — He writes that “Steve Kron and Beth McNally live in Oak Park, Ill., with their two laptops and broadband, happily writing their grants and manuscripts.”

 

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Obituaries

• RICHARD S. LEE, (MD 1944), a longtime Palo Alto obstetrician, died Nov. 9, 2003, of leukemia. He was 84. “Dick” Lee, who practiced at PAMC from 1952 to 1984, was devoted to the care of his patients and health education. In 1995, the Stanford Medical Alumni Association honored Lee with its Sterling Award for distinguished alumni. Lee was strongly pro choice and served on the executive boards of Planned Parenthood and the California Interagency Council on Family Planning. An avid pilot and race car driver, he served as national and regional medical director for the Sports Car Club of America. He worked to set higher standards for trauma medical care of race car drivers and crews. A member of a family of noted physicians, he was the son of the late Russel V.A. Lee, MD, a former national health commissioner and founder of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic.

• TED LORING, (MD 1946), died May 12, 2003, in his sleep at the age of 86. An obstetrician in Eureka, Calif., from 1951 until he retired in 1992, he delivered more than 6,000 babies. Loring, a longtime Stanford Medical Alumni Association board member, was born in Belize (then British Honduras) and survived a 1931 hurricane that took the lives of 25 percent of the inhabitants of Belize City. He came to the United States at the age of 16 and eventually settled in northern California. He was a volunteer physician in the 1964 flood that devastated Humboldt County. He helped found the nursing program at Humboldt State University. He was a founding member and served as president of the Humboldt-Del Norte Foundation for Medical Care. He was elected in 1972 to the Pacific Coast Ob/Gyn Society. In 1988 he received the Frederick K.M. Plessner Award from the California Medical Association, given to physicians who best exemplify service to rural areas.

• ROBERT LEE BROWN, MD, class of 1953, Dec. 4, 2003
• EMERSON G. HILER, MD, class of 1946, Sept. 25, 2003
• LAWRENCE C. PENCE, MD, class of 1936, Aug. 22, 2003
• CHARLES G. SCARBOROUGH, MD, class of 1937, Aug. 25, 2003
• FREDERIC SHIDLER, MD, class of 1938, Oct. 26, 2003
• IRVING L. WHITE, MD, class of 1943, Feb. 1, 2003
• MORRIS M. ZACK, MD, class of 1944, Oct. 20, 2003

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

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