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Class Notes

40's
1941:
Gene A. Croce and wife Marion of Cranston, R.I., spent their winter months in Florida and enjoy the warm weather. Gene has been retired from the practice of OB/GYN for seven years and is an avid golfer.
1942: William J. Senter and wife Bettye apologize for not attending the 60th reunion this spring. They are fine, but were involved in a lot of family activities including the graduations of three grandchildren.

50's
1953: Rafael Longo of San Juan, P.R., is looking forward to the 50th reunion of his class on May 1, 2 & 3, 2003.
1955: Morton D. Kramer of Baltimore, the MAA President, wishes to inform his classmates that wife Carol passed away on December 1, 2001.
1957: Marvin S. Arons resigned as chief of plastic surgery at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven Connecticut and as director of the Yale Plastic Surgery Residency, two positions he held for 25 years. This year he was named physician of the year by the medical staff of the latter hospital. Dr. Arons continues in part-time practice with son Jeffrey, who completed a plastic surgery residency at Case Western Reserve and an orthopaedic hand fellowship at Syracuse.

70's
1970: Philip A. Mackowiak of Sherwood Forest, Md., is governor for the Maryland chapter of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. He is director of the medical care clinic at the VA Maryland Health Care System and professor and vice chairman of the department of medicine at Maryland. Carol Schwarz of Albuquerque, N.M., reports that daughter Kathy is a first year medical student at the University of New Mexico. Hans Schwarz, ’70, is Kathy’s father.
1975: Kenneth Iserson of Tucson, Ariz., has completed Demon Doctors: Physicians as Serial Killers, published by Galen Press.
1977: Astrida Plucis-Turkopulo of Annapolis, Md., works three days a week and travels 11 weeks during the summer.
1979: Robert Dorr of Branford, Conn., is enjoying life on the Connecticut shoreline with his wife and two children. He has a private pediatric practice.

80's
1980: Marc D. Sokolow of Towson, Md., is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Col. Paul E. Whittaker of Gig Harbor, Wash., has returned from a deployment to Southwest Asia in support of Army and Air Force operations in central command.
1982: Mary Beth Jones Lindsay practices OB/GYN in Salisbury, Md., and has recently taken on a new partner. She and spouse Terry have three boys: Scott, age 16; Matt, age 13; and Erik, age 11. Rebecca Love is moving to western New York to practice acute care emergency medicine, after practicing in an urgent care center for two years in Baltimore following her divorce. Her oldest boy is a librarian at the Pratt Library, while her middle child is applying to art colleges. Her youngest is 11. Barbara W. Reeve of Ellsworth, Maine, is a member of the Ellsworth City Council while maintaining a full-time solo office practice in psychiatry. Husband Bill buys and sells used books and coaches swimming.
1983: George M. Boyer of Baltimore is chairman of the department of medicine at Mercy Medical Center. Eric Scott and wife Jennifer of Gainesville, Fla., are celebrating their 20th anniversary in October. They have three girls, ages eleven, nine and five. The two older daughters earned black belts. Eric has a private neurosurgery practice and maintains a courtesy faculty position in the department of neurosurgery at the University of Florida. Milton Sniadach of Englewood, Colo., went tuna fishing off Ocean City in July.
1985: Lance S. Burns and wife Rosanne of Glendale, Ariz., announce the birth of Carter Joseph on Dec-ember 5, 2001. He joins Ben, age 11; Rachel, age nine; and Jack, age two. Lance practices ER Medicine at Arrow-head Hospital and is base station director, vice chair of medicine, and assistant clinical professor at Midwestern University.
1988: Donald O. Kreger, wife Jill and children Alexandra and Jesse moved back to Fort Collins, Colo., where Donald has joined the Rocky Mountain Center for Reproductive Medicine. This follows his seven years on the faculty of the University of South Dakota School of Medicine.
1989: David A. Stone of Naples, Fla., is medical director of Anchor Health Centers’ cardiac rehabilitation program. Wife Janice is expecting a sibling for daughter Jessica in October.

90's
1990: Maryrose Eichelberger of Millersville, Md., has a private practice in internal medicine in Severna Park. She and husband Jay have two daughters: Alicia, age eight; and Rachel, age six. Shari Reichenberg Cohen and husband Phillip announce the birth of twins Joshua Paul and Rebecca Mollie on September 26, 2001.
1991: Karen Gibbons of San Antonio, Tex., practices pediatrics in a small group. Husband Jack is a flight surgeon at Brooks AFB. They have two girls: Emily, age four; and Elizabeth, age one.
1992: F. Scott Pereles is director of body MRI at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago where he is an assistant professor of radiology. He and wife Lauren have a one year old son and are expecting their second in September.
1994: Jon Simon and wife Tina of Baldwin, Md., announce the birth of son Benjamin in June 2001, their second. Simon’s medicine/pediatrics practice in Phoenix is thriving.
1995: Steven Blash is working with Johns Hopkins Community Physicians in Hagerstown, Md. Kevin Dooley of Gansevoort, N.Y., was listed among the “Top Docs” in Connecticut Magazine. He is now a family physician and hospitalist in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and enjoys being closer to the mountains and lakes. Suman Mishra of Pittsburgh married Dinakar Golla, M.D., a plastic surgery resident at the University of Pittsburgh.
1996: Michael Franks is serving a fellowship in urologic oncology at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. Allison Jensen and husband Alex of Minneapolis welcomed their first child, Kyle Alexander in December 2001. She is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota specializing in pediatric ophthalmology. Paul Jung of Owings Mills, Md., is a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit challenging the National Resident Matching Program. He is a fellow at Johns Hopkins.
1998: Dina Elaraj of Rockville, Md., is performing research as part of a surgical oncology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Otha Myles is serving an infectious disease fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. after returning from Bosnia as part of Task Force Medical Eagle.
1999: Seth Cohen and wife Jessica enjoy living in New York City and plan to be there another three years as Seth completes a fellowship in hematology/ oncology at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. Thomas Horst is enjoying Coconut Grove in Miami, Fla., with one year remaining of OB/GYN training. He shares a house with David Belloso who will become chief resident at Miami Children’s Hospital.

00's
2000: James P. Hamilton of Chicago is completing his second year of a general medicine residency at Northwestern-McGaw and has accepted a GI fellowship at Maryland starting in July 2003. He lives with Meena Khan who is PGY2 at the University of Chicago.

Alumni, faculty, and friends are invited to send in nominations for two MAA-sponsored awards by November 1, 2002.

The Honor Award & Gold Key is awarded to a living alumnus for outstanding contributions to medicine and distinguished service to mankind. Factors considered in the selection process include impact of accomplishments; local, state, national, and international recognition; supporting letters, and publications.

The Medical Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award is given to an individual who has provided outstanding service to the alumni association and medical school.

Letters of nomination for both awards must include a curriculum vitae and should be addressed to:
Alice Heisler, ’63
Chair of the Awards Committee
Medical Alumni Association
522 W. Lombard Street
Baltimore MD 21201-1636.


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