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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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