John C. Dumler, ’32
Harrisonburg, Va.
March 20, 2005
Dr. Dumler’s practice was interrupted during World War II as he served in the U.S. Navy. He was chairman of the department of gynecology at St. Agnes Hospital from 1957 to 1970, and he maintained a private practice in the Medical Arts Building in Baltimore for more than 40 years. He retired in 1976 and moved to Queen Anne County and later to Easton. Dr. Dumler was a member of the John Beale Davidge Alliance, the medical school’s recognition society for major donors. He enjoyed duck hunting. He is survived by wife Grace, son John, ’65, one daughter, three grandsons and seven great-grandchildren.

Samuel I. Haimowitz, ’39
Yardley, Pa.
March 3, 2005

Elizabeth Hooton McNeal, ’40
Kensington, Md.
July 1, 2001

Harold Sussman, ’47
Baltimore
April 5, 2005
As a child, Dr. Sussman learned about surgery by cutting up whole turkeys and putting them back together again while working for his father at Sussman and Lev’s Delicatessen on Baltimore Street. His surgical residency at Sinai Hospital was interrupted by the Korean War, as Dr. Sussman was deployed to Korea and served with a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital as a combat surgeon. His services earned him a Bronze Star. He resumed his relationship with Sinai after the war, serving as an attending general surgeon and later chief of emergency services. Before retirement in 1993, he had also been president of the hospital’s medical staff, and he was an assistant professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Sussman enjoyed scuba diving, listening to broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and was a Baltimore Orioles season ticket holder. He is survived by wife Belle, one son, two daughters and eight grandchildren.

Charles Bagley III, ’50
Chestertown, Md.
March 22, 2005
Prior to medical school, Dr. Bagley served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. After graduation, he established a private psychiatry practice and was an instructor at Johns Hopkins from 1960 to 1961. He moved to Salisbury in 1961 where he maintained a practice until retirement in 1992. Dr. Bagley was an active member of Salisbury’s St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, and he served two terms as president of the Heron Point resident council. He is survived by wife Margaret, two sons, one daughter, one stepson, four stepdaughters, and eight grandchildren.

Raymond Bradshaw Jr., ’50
Silver Spring, Md.
May 12, 2005
Dr. Bradshaw met wife Nancy at Maryland, where she was a medical illustrator with Prof. Eduard Uhlenhuth. Upon completion of his medical degree, Dr. Bradshaw trained in internal medicine at Maryland and Garfield Hospital in Washington, D.C., and he later practiced family medicine in Montgomery County for more than 40 years. He retired in 1990. Dr. Bradshaw held several memberships in medical societies, and he was proud of his affiliation with Nu Sigma Nu and the Rush Medical Club. He enjoyed skiing and getaways to his weekend house on the Chesapeake Bay. It was in the basement of this house that Dr. Bradshaw built a small sailboat and later sailed it on the bay with his daughter. In addition to Nancy and his daughter, Dr. Bradshaw is survived by three grandchildren.

Riva L. Novey, ’54
Baltimore
May 27, 2005
Dr. Novey had a career in social work prior to entering medical school, graduating from Goucher College in 1936 and earning a master’s degree in social work from Smith College in Massachusetts. She decided to apply to medical school several years after her marriage to Samuel Novey, ’38, who practiced psychiatry in the Baltimore area. Upon graduation, Dr. Novey received training at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute where she later became a teacher and trainer. She entered private practice in Baltimore and for several decades treated patients and trained practitioners. Husband Samuel died in 1967, and years later Dr. Novey married Jacob Glushakow. She had a passion for the arts, seeing a correlation with her psychiatric work. Dr. Novey enjoyed playing harpsichord, knitting, and cooking. Second husband Jacob passed away in 2000. Dr. Novey is survived by one stepdaughter.

Kenneth H. White, ’54
Farmington, Conn.
March 5, 2005
After high school, a young Kenneth developed a passion for the sea and served in the U.S. Merchant Marine. Upon medical school graduation, he was stationed in Bethesda, Md., for two years with the U.S. Navy before returning to Baltimore for residency training in radiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1960, Dr. White moved to Hartford, Conn., to become an attending radiologist at St. Francis Hospital. He was co-founder and president of the Connecticut Valley Radiological Group where he remained until retirement in 1992. From 1983 to 1994, Dr. White was assistant clinical professor in the department of radiology at the University of Connecticut. Dr. White was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed bicycling, tennis, baseball, hiking and sailing. His greatest joys were playing softball and bike riding with his family. He was a member of the Insurance City Barbershop Chorus, the Old Guard, and Farmington Country Club, and for many years taught Sunday school at the First Church of Christ Congregational. Dr. White is survived by wife Joanne, one son, three daughters and nine grandchildren.

Alfred E. Iwantsch, ’55
Sparks, Md.
May 2, 2005

Peter P. Lynch, ’57
Woodbridge, Va.
May 4, 2005
Dr. Lynch served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Brooke Army Medical Center at Lackland in San Antonio until 1968. Later that year he returned to his hometown of Springfield, Virginia, to work as an anesthesiologist at Baystate Medical Center. He remained there for the next 27 years. Dr. Lynch was an Elm Society member of the medical school’s John Beale Davidge Alliance. He was preceded in death by wife Elizabeth, and is survived by one son, four daughters and seven grandchildren.

Joanne Economon, ’58
Kailua Kona, Hawaii
May 3, 2005
As a youngster, Dr. Economon was considered to be a child prodigy on the piano and, at age 18, she was awarded an associate’s degree in art from George Washington University’s Columbian College and Graduate School. One year later, she earned a bachelor of science degree in zoology from the same institution. Upon receiving her medical degree, she trained at Johns Hopkins and practiced ophthalmology in Washington, D.C., for more than 30 years. Dr. Economon was one of the first physicians in the area to perform laser eye surgery. Her volunteer work focused on the needs of those afflicted with low vision. She was a central figure in the establishment of the Low Vision Program at the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind. She retired in 1990 after being diagnosed with multiple mye-loma. Dr. Economon moved to the Big Island of Hawaii where she established a bridge club. She is survived by her second husband Chuck Clark, one son, one stepdaughter, and two grandchildren. Her marriage to the late Straty H. Economon, ’60, ended in divorce in 1981.

John D. Stafford, ’68
Baltimore
March 26, 2005
Dr. Stafford interned at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio where he worked with patients burned in the Vietnam War. He served an anesthesiology residency at Baltimore City Hospitals and earned a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Stafford was chief of communicable diseases and epidemiology for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene before being named director of a new program—emergency medical services development—where he set up a network connecting ambulance crews at the scene of a medical emergency with hospital physicians. To control costs, he hired his own radio engineers and employed his own equipment. In 1980, Dr. Stafford moved to Pennsylvania to set up a medical helicopter system for the Allentown region, and two years later he became the emergency medical director for the state of Arizona. Returning to Maryland in the mid 1980s, he became state aeromedical director for the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems and wrote the guidelines for the medical equipment carried by the Medevac helicopters purchased by the state. In 1989, he became one of the state’s three deputy health secretaries, supervising programs dealing with public health, drug and alcohol abuse, and AIDS. Dr. Stafford became medical director of the Baltimore Recovery Center, a homeless center in West Baltimore. And in 2000, he worked with the state’s department of public safety and correctional services, revising the medical guidelines for prisoners. At the time of his death, he was a consultant to the state’s motor vehicle administration medical department, counseling those convicted of drunken driving. Dr. Stafford is survived by two daughters. His marriage to Grace Schmid ended in divorce.

Ronald J. Kendig, ’77
Brandon, Miss.
April 27, 2005
Dr. Kendig interned at Maryland and completed residency training in general and orthopaedic surgery at Union Memorial. He traveled to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in the United Kingdom for a fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics, and to the B.G. Unfallklinik in Germany for a fellowship in traumatology and reconstructive orthopaedics. He received additional specialty training at the Hospital de Porte de Choisy in Paris; the Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas; the Kantonsspital in St. Gallen, Switzerland; and Werner-Wicker-Klinik in Germany. Dr. Kendig served on the faculty at the University of California at Davis for one year before joining the faculty at the University of Mississippi Medical Center as associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation. Dr. Kendig’s career in academic medicine focused on pediatric orthopaedics and residency training, and he was the author of numerous publications and abstracts on congenital orthopaedic malformations and metabolic bone disease in children. He also served as an orthopaedics consultant on mission teams to India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. Dr. Kendig is survived by his father and two sisters.

Douglas J. McPhee, ’93
Ellicott City, Md.
May 17, 2005
Dr. McPhee was raised in Bel Air, Md., and was co-valedictorian of his 1985 class at C. Milton Wright High School. He received a BS from Loyola College before enrolling in medical school. Upon completion of his medical degree, Dr. McPhee trained at Wake Forest University. He returned to Maryland and was an emergency room physician at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He is survived by wife Kathryn and daughter Marygrace.