Manuel Stapen, ’37
Boca Raton, Fla
May 25, 2007

Benjamin H. Inloes Jr. ’40
Williamsburg, Va.
June 3, 2008
The University of Maryland was the site of Dr. Inloes OB/GYN training upon completion of medical school. During World War II, he joined the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the Marine Corp. as a battlion surgeon in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. After the war, Inloes had a brief stint in private practice before joining the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict. From 1954 until 1977, he was in private practice in Hampton-Newport News, Va., and from 1978 until retirement in 1982, Inloes worked with the U.S. Army at Ft. Eustis, Va., in a civil service position. In retirement he enjoyed golf, recreation activities at Kingsmill-on-the James, and travel. Inloes was a member of the medical school’s John Beale Davidge Alliance, the honor society for major donors. He is survived by his third wife Ruth, three children and three grandchidren

Ydalia Ortiz, ’41
San Juan, P.R.
August 31, 2008
Dr. Ortiz received training at Children’s Memorial Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, and Johns Hopkins. She practiced pediatrics and child psychiatry in Puerto Rico for many years and is survived by two daughters and one granddaughter.

Robert A. Barthel Jr., ’42
Forest Hill, Md.
June 23, 2008
Dr. Barthel interned at Maryland and from 1943 to 1946 was assigned to active duty in the U.S. Navy. Assignments in the Western Pacific included the Philippines. He returned to Maryland after military service, opening a private family practice in Harford County. Barthel retired in 1987 and then again in 1991, delivering more than 1,500 babies during his career. He served as president of the Harford County Medical Society for three consecutive terms during the 1950s, and he was physician to the Baltimore Fresh Air Camp for more than 25 years until its closure. He and wife Mary had four children.

Joseph Wallace Jr., ’42
Dover, Pa.
February 11, 2008
After interning at Abington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania, Dr. Wallace received residency training in otolaryngology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He practiced in Lansdowne from 1945 until retirement in 1991 and was on the staff at both Delaware County Memorial Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania where he served as an instructor in head and neck anatomy at the graduate school of medicine. In 1968, he served as a volunteer physician in the ENT department of Wanless Hospital at Miraj Medical Center in Miraj, India. He enjoyed playing piano and organ, and he was a member of the American Philatelic Society. Wallace was preceded in death by wife Virginia and is survived by three sons, five grandchildren, and six great grandchildren.

Paul G. Lukats, ’43M
Norton, Ohio
September 14, 2007
Dr. Lukats interned at South Baltimore General Hospital and received residency training in general surgery at Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland. He practiced in Cuyahoga Falls for 47 years before retiring in 1985.

John M. Bloxom, ’44
Salisbury, Md.
August 5, 2008
After serving as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Bloxom completed residency training in surgery at South Baltimore General Hospital. He served as chief of general surgery at Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury where he also held numerous staff offices. Bloxom was a past president of the Wicomico County Medical Society. He retired from practice in 1985 and enjoyed boating, fishing, and traveling, and he spent several months each year living in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was preceded in death by wives Francis and Catherine, and he is survived by two children and five grandchildren.

Stuart C. Levine, ’44
Baltimore
March 13, 2008
Dr. Levine practiced radiology in Baltimore for 47 years and retired in 1996. He enjoyed reading. He is survived by wife Mary Ellen, two daughters, three grandchildren, and one great-grandson.

James J. Gerlach, ’46
Baldwin, Md.
July 10, 2008
Upon graduation, Dr. Gerlach served a rotating internship and residency in otolaryngology at Mercy Hospital before joining the U.S. Army. He spent the next 33 months in a number of military assignments including chief of ENT at the Pentagon Dispensary, assistant chief of ENT at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, chief of the station hospital Rabaul, New Britain, and chief of EENT at the Army hospital in Ft. Jackson, S.C. After receiving his discharge, Gerlach completed training at the University of Pennsylvania and returned to Baltimore where he practiced otolaryngology and, after 1957, limited his practice to otology. He was a collector of early American furniture. Gerlach is survived by wife Elaine, two sons, two daughters, and four grandchildren.

J. Poulson Hunter, ’46
Salt Lake City
June 27, 2008
Dr. Hunter completed residency training at the University Hospitals in Iowa City, Iowa, before serving two years with the U.S. Army Medical Corps., in Ogden, Utah. He opened a family medicine private practice in Salt Lake City in 1949 which continued for 51 years. Hunter also practiced OB and general surgery until 1979, and he was a member of the staffs of LDS Hospital and Primary Children’s Hospital, where in 1965 he served as president. For eight years he taught students and residents at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He enjoyed photography, travel, gardening, and watching movies. Hunter is survived by wife Marjorie, nine children, 37 grandchildren, and 29 great-grandchildren.

Milton Reisch, ’46
Yonkers, N.Y.
September 15, 2008
University of Maryland was the site of Dr. Reisch’s internship. Residency training was served at Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio, Tex., Bronx Veterans Hospital in Bronx, N.Y., and Cornell University Hospital in New York City. He practiced dermatology for 59 years, retiring in 2005. Appointments included clinical professor of medicine dermatology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and chair of adverse drug reactions at Montefiore Medical Center. Reisch enjoyed photography, wood carving, sketching, and travel. He is survived by wife Rashi, one son, one daughter, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Joseph F. LiPira, ’47
Baltimore
July 30, 2008
Dr. LiPira contracted spinal meningitis while in medical school. During the illness he met his future wife Ellen, who was a nurse at University Hospital. Upon graduation, he interned and performed residency training at Mercy Hospital. LiPira went to work as a physician at Bethlehem Steel, but after one year he joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in Sacramento, Calif. He returned to Maryland one year later and resumed his work at Bethlehem Steel. In 1958, LiPira opened a private family practice where he worked until retirement in 1978. He continued seeing his older patients for several more years. LiPira enjoyed the horse races, politics, attending Baltimore Colts games, and visiting the Eastern shore. Survivors include his wife, five sons, five daughters, and 27 grandchildren.

William F. Schnitzker, ’47
Ashland, Ky.
February 17, 2008
At age six, a young Dr. Schnitzker began playing the violin and prior to medical school graduated from the Peabody Music School. In 1939, he joined the Fort Meade Civilian Military Training Camp and coast artillery at Fort Monroe. At Fort Monroe, Schnitzker passed in review to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1941, while attending Transylvania University, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was mobilized in July 1943 to the University of Louisville to finish premedical school classes. Upon graduation from Maryland, he trained in pediatrics at the University of Louisville and Children's Hospital in Louisville. He then joined the U.S. Army as a pediatric resident and during the Korean conflict served at Fort Knox, Ky., where he began a pediatric clinic. He completed training at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., and in 1957 opened a private practice in Ashland. While in practice he served on the faculty at the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky. He was widely published in journals including JAMA and the Pediatric Journal, as well as authoring two books. Schnitzker had a passion for travel and participated in Elderhostel, Earth Watch, and was an avid sailor. He retired from practice in 1989. He was preceded in death by wife Bettylee and is survived by three children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Alice G. Chelton, ’48
Atlanta
August 29, 2007
Dr. Chelton practiced psychiatry in the
Atlanta area. Her marriage to L. Guy
Chelton, ’50 ended in divorce.

Kathleen McGrady, ’51
Hendersonville, N.C.
April 9, 2008
Dr. McGrady was one of four women in the class of 1951 and married classmate Charles McGrady. She interned at Washington, D.C., General Hospital and received residency training in pediatrics at Maryland before moving to Florida for a few years where both practiced medicine. In 1971, they relocated to western North Carolina where McGrady operated a pediatrics practice assisted by her mother who served as the office nurse. She taught at Western Carolina University and with her husband acquired a Christmas tree farm. In 1989, after the death of her husband, McGrady relocated to Hendersonville and later established the Elizabeth House—named in honor of her mother—at Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care. Nine years later another tribute to her mother was established—the Elizabeth Reilly Breast Cancer Center at Pardee Hospital. Also in 2006, she dedicated the Charles W. McGrady Wing at the Elizabeth House. McGrady assisted in the founding of a family resource center, free clinic, community school, and served as volunteer for several other organizations. She was a member of the medical school’s John Beale Davidge Alliance after establishing the McGrady Scholarship Fund to assist needy students. In 2007, McGrady was honored as the outstanding philanthropist by the Association of Fund Raising Professionals. She is survived by three children and six grandchildren.

Gilberto Ramirez-Santisteban, ’52
New York City

Phillip G. Staggers, ’55
Keyser, W.Va.
April 15, 2008
Upon graduation, Dr. Staggers served his residency at the San Diego Naval Hospital before traveling to Pensacola, Florida, for naval aviation medical school. He worked as a flight surgeon at the Marine air facility

Manuel Stapen, ’37
Boca Raton, Fla
May 25, 2007

Benjamin H. Inloes Jr. ’40
Williamsburg, Va.
June 3, 2008
The University of Maryland was the site of Dr. Inloes OB/GYN training upon completion of medical school. During World War II, he joined the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the Marine Corp. as a battlion surgeon in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. After the war, Inloes had a brief stint in private practice before joining the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict. From 1954 until 1977, he was in private practice in Hampton-Newport News, Va., and from 1978 until retirement in 1982, Inloes worked with the U.S. Army at Ft. Eustis, Va., in a civil service position. In retirement he enjoyed golf, recreation activities at Kingsmill-on-the James, and travel. Inloes was a member of the medical school’s John Beale Davidge Alliance, the honor society for major donors. He is survived by his third wife Ruth, three children and three grandchidren

Ydalia Ortiz, ’41
San Juan, P.R.
August 31, 2008
Dr. Ortiz received training at Children’s Memorial Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, and Johns Hopkins. She practiced pediatrics and child psychiatry in Puerto Rico for many years and is survived by two daughters and one granddaughter.

Robert A. Barthel Jr., ’42
Forest Hill, Md.
June 23, 2008
Dr. Barthel interned at Maryland and from 1943 to 1946 was assigned to active duty in the U.S. Navy. Assignments in the Western Pacific included the Philippines. He returned to Maryland after military service, opening a private family practice in Harford County. Barthel retired in 1987 and then again in 1991, delivering more than 1,500 babies during his career. He served as president of the Harford County Medical Society for three consecutive terms during the 1950s, and he was physician to the Baltimore Fresh Air Camp for more than 25 years until its closure. He and wife Mary had four children.

Joseph Wallace Jr., ’42
Dover, Pa.
February 11, 2008
After interning at Abington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania, Dr. Wallace received residency training in otolaryngology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He practiced in Lansdowne from 1945 until retirement in 1991 and was on the staff at both Delaware County Memorial Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania where he served as an instructor in head and neck anatomy at the graduate school of medicine. In 1968, he served as a volunteer physician in the ENT department of Wanless Hospital at Miraj Medical Center in Miraj, India. He enjoyed playing piano and organ, and he was a member of the American Philatelic Society. Wallace was preceded in death by wife Virginia and is survived by three sons, five grandchildren, and six great grandchildren.

Paul G. Lukats, ’43M
Norton, Ohio
September 14, 2007
Dr. Lukats interned at South Baltimore General Hospital and received residency training in general surgery at Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland. He practiced in Cuyahoga Falls for 47 years before retiring in 1985.

John M. Bloxom, ’44
Salisbury, Md.
August 5, 2008
After serving as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Bloxom completed residency training in surgery at South Baltimore General Hospital. He served as chief of general surgery at Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury where he also held numerous staff offices. Bloxom was a past president of the Wicomico County Medical Society. He retired from practice in 1985 and enjoyed boating, fishing, and traveling, and he spent several months each year living in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was preceded in death by wives Francis and Catherine, and he is survived by two children and five grandchildren.

Stuart C. Levine, ’44
Baltimore
March 13, 2008
Dr. Levine practiced radiology in Baltimore for 47 years and retired in 1996. He enjoyed reading. He is survived by wife Mary Ellen, two daughters, three grandchildren, and one great-grandson.

James J. Gerlach, ’46
Baldwin, Md.
July 10, 2008
Upon graduation, Dr. Gerlach served a rotating internship and residency in otolaryngology at Mercy Hospital before joining the U.S. Army. He spent the next 33 months in a number of military assignments including chief of ENT at the Pentagon Dispensary, assistant chief of ENT at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, chief of the station hospital Rabaul, New Britain, and chief of EENT at the Army hospital in Ft. Jackson, S.C. After receiving his discharge, Gerlach completed training at the University of Pennsylvania and returned to Baltimore where he practiced otolaryngology and, after 1957, limited his practice to otology. He was a collector of early American furniture. Gerlach is survived by wife Elaine, two sons, two daughters, and four grandchildren.

J. Poulson Hunter, ’46
Salt Lake City
June 27, 2008
Dr. Hunter completed residency training at the University Hospitals in Iowa City, Iowa, before serving two years with the U.S. Army Medical Corps., in Ogden, Utah. He opened a family medicine private practice in Salt Lake City in 1949 which continued for 51 years. Hunter also practiced OB and general surgery until 1979, and he was a member of the staffs of LDS Hospital and Primary Children’s Hospital, where in 1965 he served as president. For eight years he taught students and residents at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He enjoyed photography, travel, gardening, and watching movies. Hunter is survived by wife Marjorie, nine children, 37 grandchildren, and 29 great-grandchildren.

Milton Reisch, ’46
Yonkers, N.Y.
September 15, 2008
University of Maryland was the site of Dr. Reisch’s internship. Residency training was served at Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio, Tex., Bronx Veterans Hospital in Bronx, N.Y., and Cornell University Hospital in New York City. He practiced dermatology for 59 years, retiring in 2005. Appointments included clinical professor of medicine dermatology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and chair of adverse drug reactions at Montefiore Medical Center. Reisch enjoyed photography, wood carving, sketching, and travel. He is survived by wife Rashi, one son, one daughter, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Joseph F. LiPira, ’47
Baltimore
July 30, 2008
Dr. LiPira contracted spinal meningitis while in medical school. During the illness he met his future wife Ellen, who was a nurse at University Hospital. Upon graduation, he interned and performed residency training at Mercy Hospital. LiPira went to work as a physician at Bethlehem Steel, but after one year he joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in Sacramento, Calif. He returned to Maryland one year later and resumed his work at Bethlehem Steel. In 1958, LiPira opened a private family practice where he worked until retirement in 1978. He continued seeing his older patients for several more years. LiPira enjoyed the horse races, politics, attending Baltimore Colts games, and visiting the Eastern shore. Survivors include his wife, five sons, five daughters, and 27 grandchildren.

William F. Schnitzker, ’47
Ashland, Ky.
February 17, 2008
At age six, a young Dr. Schnitzker began playing the violin and prior to medical school graduated from the Peabody Music School. In 1939, he joined the Fort Meade Civilian Military Training Camp and coast artillery at Fort Monroe. At Fort Monroe, Schnitzker passed in review to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1941, while attending Transylvania University, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was mobilized in July 1943 to the University of Louisville to finish premedical school classes. Upon graduation from Maryland, he trained in pediatrics at the University of Louisville and Children's Hospital in Louisville. He then joined the U.S. Army as a pediatric resident and during the Korean conflict served at Fort Knox, Ky., where he began a pediatric clinic. He completed training at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., and in 1957 opened a private practice in Ashland. While in practice he served on the faculty at the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky. He was widely published in journals including JAMA and the Pediatric Journal, as well as authoring two books. Schnitzker had a passion for travel and participated in Elderhostel, Earth Watch, and was an avid sailor. He retired from practice in 1989. He was preceded in death by wife Bettylee and is survived by three children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Alice G. Chelton, ’48
Atlanta
August 29, 2007
Dr. Chelton practiced psychiatry in the
Atlanta area. Her marriage to L. Guy
Chelton, ’50 ended in divorce.

Kathleen McGrady, ’51
Hendersonville, N.C.
April 9, 2008
Dr. McGrady was one of four women in the class of 1951 and married classmate Charles McGrady. She interned at Washington, D.C., General Hospital and received residency training in pediatrics at Maryland before moving to Florida for a few years where both practiced medicine. In 1971, they relocated to western North Carolina where McGrady operated a pediatrics practice assisted by her mother who served as the office nurse. She taught at Western Carolina University and with her husband acquired a Christmas tree farm. In 1989, after the death of her husband, McGrady relocated to Hendersonville and later established the Elizabeth House—named in honor of her mother—at Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care. Nine years later another tribute to her mother was established—the Elizabeth Reilly Breast Cancer Center at Pardee Hospital. Also in 2006, she dedicated the Charles W. McGrady Wing at the Elizabeth House. McGrady assisted in the founding of a family resource center, free clinic, community school, and served as volunteer for several other organizations. She was a member of the medical school’s John Beale Davidge Alliance after establishing the McGrady Scholarship Fund to assist needy students. In 2007, McGrady was honored as the outstanding philanthropist by the Association of Fund Raising Professionals. She is survived by three children and six grandchildren.

Gilberto Ramirez-Santisteban, ’52
New York City

Phillip G. Staggers, ’55
Keyser, W.Va.
April 15, 2008
Upon graduation, Dr. Staggers served his residency at the San Diego Naval Hospital before traveling to Pensacola, Florida, for naval aviation medical school. He worked as a flight surgeon at the Marine air facility in Santa Ana, California, for several years before returning to Keyser where he began his private practice of family medicine. He retired in 1991 after serving the community for more than 32 years. Staggers is survived by wife Mabel Jean, four daughters, and one grandson.

Sheldon Goldgeier, ’58
Easton, Md.
June 29, 2008
Dr. Goldgeier interned at Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital and received residency training in internal medicine there for one year before serving as a captain in the U.S. Army in Korea. Following military service, Goldgeier completed residency training as well as a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at Duke University and returned to Baltimore where he established a private practice. From 1966 until 1993, he was team physician for the Baltimore Orioles. Appointments also included chief of medicine at the Johns Hopkins North Charles/Homewood campus and president of the Maryland Society for Internal Medicine. Goldgeier retired in 2001 and moved to Easton where he taught medicine-related courses at the Institute for Adult Learning at Chesapeake College and at the Academy of Lifelong Learning at the Maritime Museum in St. Michaels. He enjoyed photography, painting, fishing, and bird watching, and he is survived by wife Myra, two children, and two grandchildren.

James D. Shepperd Jr., ’58
Washington, D.C.
August 9, 2008
Upon graduation, Dr. Shepperd completed training in the Georgetown University program at D.C. General Hospital in Washington. He was detailed by the U.S. Air Force to the Misawa Air Base Hospital in Northern Japan where he served as chief of medicine for three years. After his military commitment, Shepperd returned for a fellowship in pulmonary medicine before joining the faculty at Howard University. He was executive director of the Upper Cardozo Neighborhood Health Center and later served as chairman of the department of community medicine and public health. Shepperd was clinical director at the Johns Hopkins Medical Group and later received a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins. In 1976, he accepted a position with the World Health Organization in Bangkok, Thailand, as an education specialist with the Mahidol School of Public Health. He served in similar capacities in New Delhi, India, and later in the Ivory Coast and Jamaica with USAID. In retirement Shepperd continued his association with the Johns Hopkins Tropical Medicine Club and enjoyed sailing. He is survived by ex-wives Jewell and Billie, three sons including Scott, ’89, two daughters, and eight grandchildren.

George N. Lewis III, ‘59
Bloomington, Ind.

John J. Bennett, ’60
Morehead City, N.C.
Dr. Bennett practiced family and occupational medicine in Harrisburg, Pa., and later New Bern, N.C. He was preceded in death by wife Dixie in 2004.

Harry A. Spalt, ’63
Martinsburg, WV
June 19 2008
Dr. Spalt practiced neurology in Baltimore and was on the staffs at Maryland General and Union Memorial hospitals. He later moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia, where he was a member of the Eastern Panhandle Medical Society. He had recently retired. Spalt is survived by two daughters, and his marriage to wife Mary Ann ended in divorce.

Robert G. Hazard, ‘64
Leesburg, Va.
February 8, 2007
Dr. Hazard trained at Providence and Children’s hospitals in Washington, D.C. He was a practicing allergist in Rockville, Md., for 27 years before joining the FDA where he oversaw the medical ethics of clinical trials. Survivors include wife Ann, two children and two grandchildren.

Barry S. Gold, ’74
Baltimore
June 30, 2008
Maryland General Hospital was the site of Dr. Gold’s internship and residency training in internal medicine. Although he practiced internal medicine in Baltimore until retirement in 2005, his career path had been shaped by a snakebite as a Boy Scout, and Gold became an expert in the treatment of venomous bites. He served as consultant to Baltimore’s National Aquarium, Maryland Zoo, and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. A 2002 paper he co-authored on the subject was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Gold joined the faculty at Maryland in 2005 where he practiced family medicine at the medical center and emergency medicine at the VA Hospital. Appointments included clinical assistant professor at Maryland and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. He also held the post of medical director for Medicare for the State of Maryland and was a physician-advisor for several Hollywood movies. Gold maintained a pilot’s license and enjoyed Formula One racing. He is survived by wife Linell and two children.
Faculty

Martha W. Burton, PhD
Timonium, Md.
August 21, 2008
Dr. Burton was an assistant professor in the department of neurology for the past 11 years. Born and raised in Cincinnati, she earned a bachelor’s degree in language studies and Russian from Wellesley College in 1983. In 1986, Burton received a master’s degree in linguistics from Brown University and a doctorate in cognitive and linguistic sciences three years later from this same institution. Her work focused on exploring the dynamics of language, how the brain processes and maintains spoken and written words and sentences, and how focal brain injury changes normal brain activity during language processing. Burton’s work was published in several professional journals. She also sat on review panels for grants awarded by the NIH.