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1940s
1942:
William J. Senter of Raleigh, N.C., is 91 years old and still going strong. He continues living at home and enjoying life. 1943: Augustus H. Frye Jr., of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., reports that a broken hip forced him into retirement at age 91. 1947: Benjamin M. Gold of Rocky Mount, N.C., has been retired with disability since 1980.

1950s
1954:
Thomas E. Hunt Jr., of Baltimore was recently featured on the front page of the Cumberland Times/News for his volunteer work at the League for Crippled Children at the Allegany County Health Department. A pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Hunt’s 44 years is the longest service of all surgeons who have volunteered there. In addition, the Baltimore City Medical Society announced that an anonymous donor had established a history of medicine lectureship in Hunt’s name. 1955: Joseph W. Cavallaro of Frankford, W.Va., is busy traveling and remains active with the Frostburg State Science Center where he donated his taxidermy collection. 1959: August D. King Jr., and wife Netta of Lutherville, Md., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on September 6, 2008, with their five children and 13 grandchildren.

1960s
1961:
Carlos E. Girod of San Juan, P.R., received the professor emeritus award from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine during the June 2009 commencement ceremonies. 1964: Harold C. Standiford of Baltimore was recently honored by Maryland’s department of medicine by having the VA infectious diseases clinic named in his honor. Standiford joined the faculty at the VA in 1971 and recently retired. 1967: John Wm. Gareis of Lancaster, Pa., reports that daughter Jennifer appears regularly as Donna Logan on the Bold and Beautiful, which airs on CBS. His other daughter Rebecca owns The Crab Place, an online seafood company.

1970s
1971:
Michael J. Maloney of Cincinnati was married to Marta Pisarska, MD, a psychiatric colleague, on April 18, 2009. ~ Robert J. Neborsky of Del Mar, Calif., delivered a special presentation on short-term dynamic psychotherapy in London on June 6. The event was organized by the British Psychoanalytic Council in association with the Anna Freud Center. 1973: Bruce L. Beck of Prince Frederick, Md., reports that he is still going strong after 31 years in his private practice of orthopaedic surgery. 1974: William C. Crawford III and wife Jane of Sheboygan, Wis., announced that daughter Allison will be starting medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago this fall. ~ Dawn V. Obrecht of Steamboat Spring, Colo., has a column in her local newspaper and recently published Mission Possible, A Missionary Doctor’s Journey of Healing, available on Amazon. 1975: Linda S. Bartram of Bremerton, Wash., retired from practice in May 2006, and enjoys quilting for her two grandchildren and playing the electric guitar. ~ Kenneth V. Iserson of Tucson, Ariz., is spending 75 days as the Project Hope CMO in the Caribbean and South and Central America. His team will be based aboard the U.S. Navy ship Comfort. And later he plans to spend five months as CMO at the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. These trips come on the heels of a stint in Zambia with a Massachusetts General Hospital-based NGO. His newest book Improvised Medicine: Delivering Care with Limited Resources will be published by Cambridge University Press in fall. 1979: Thomas B. Volatile of Tyler, Tex., works at the Trinity Clinic, a 450-bed hospital and 250-member multi-specialty clinic. Specifically, he is with a seven-person orthopaedic clinic, caring for 26 high school football teams and colleges.

1980s
1982:
Eliot L. Siegel of Severna Park, Md., is a fellow in the American College of Radiology. Siegel is a professor in the department of diagnostic radiology at Maryland. 1984: Stephen C. Anderson of St. Petersburg, Fla., is CEO of Anderson Radiology and one of the team physicians for the Tampa Bay Rays. His practices specialize in sports medicine MRI. He and wife Kathleen report that daughter Katie graduated from Duke this spring, while daughter Caroline begins at Central Florida in fall. Anderson enjoys fly fishing on their Montana property. 1985: Kathleen Thomas Baskett of Missoula, Mont., is medical director of the St. Vincent Healthcare Weight Management Clinic in Billings, caring for both medical and surgical weight loss patients. She published Moving Forward: The Weigh to a Healthier Weight. Baskett and husband Mark are enjoying life with a teenage daughter after raising four boys. She will be attending culinary school in August, leaving the two parents as empty nesters. ~ Charles S. Hames of San Diego was promoted to captain in the U.S. Navy and appointed department head of gastroenterology at Naval Medical Center San Diego. He recently returned from a four-month deployment aboard USNS Mercy doing humanitarian missions in a number of countries including Vietnam and the Philippines. 1986: Pam Goose of Fredericksburg, Va., has changed her name to Pam E. Warren. ~ Lisa A. Scheinin of Redondo Beach, Calif., is approaching her 1,400th roller coaster ride, following recent trips to Peru, China, Vietnam, Thailand, and several trips to Japan. She was one of only a handful of Americans to visit North Korea where she enjoyed some rides. Scheinin is working toward her fourth-degree black belt in taekwondo which she hopes to earn within the next two years. 1987: Patrick Fitch and wife Ruth of Clarksville, Tenn., celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last summer. Daughter Amanda has enrolled in Vanderbilt University’s nurse practitioner graduate program, and twin Jessica is working on a second bachelor’s degree in nursing at Eastern Tennessee State University. Son Dylan is a music major at Belmont University in Nashville.

1990s
1991:
Elliot E. Cazes of Tampa, Fla., is busy with his solo OB/GYN practice and speaking nationally on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. 1996: Rebecca Appleton of Mooresville, N.C., is practicing family medicine near Charlotte. She is happily married to Andy Castillo and mother of six children. 1998: Ryokei K. Imai of Lapalma, Calif., is a hospitalist for the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. He and wife Mary were expecting their third child.

Emma Lauren Anixt
Emma Lauren Anixt

2000s
2000:
Debra Schwab and husband Jay Weiner, ’97, of Phoenix, Md., announce the birth of Maya Rachel, their second, on May 13, 2008. She was delivered by Jay and joins brother Ben, age three. 2001: Julia Anixt and husband Scott of Cincinnati, Ohio,

announce the birth of Emma Lauren on February 24. Anixt specializes in developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. ~ Teresa I. Kulie of Madison, Wis., is the AOA chapter faculty councilor at the University of Wisconsin. 2002: Scott M. Katzen of Columbia, Md., is remaining at Maryland for an interventional cardiology fellowship, following completion of a cardiology fellowship in June. 2003: Richard A. Tempel and wife Amanda of Celebration, Fla., proudly announce the arrival of Logan Matthias, their first, on April 9. Tempel works for Florida Emergency Physicians in Orlando. 2005: Christopher K. Grybauskas of Los Angeles announces his engagement to Lily Denton of Columbus, Ohio. 2006: Tara Cook of Iowa City, Iowa, misses her friends back home as she completes her third year of neurology training at the University of Iowa.


Mission: The Medical Alumni Association of the University of Maryland, Inc., in continuous operation since 1875, is an independent charitable organization dedicated to supporting the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Davidge Hall.
Structure: The board consists of five officers and nine board members. Each year more than 100 alumni participate on its seven standing committees and 13 reunion committees.

Membership: Annual dues are $85. Dues are waived for emeritus members (graduated more than 50 years or have reached 70 years of age) and newly graduated alumni, and reduced to $25 for alumni in training. Revenues support salaries for two full-time and five part-time employees, as well as general office expenses to maintain the alumni data base; produce the quarterly Medicine Bulletin magazine; stage social events for alumni and students (including the annual Reunion); administer the revolving student loan funds; and oversee conservation work on Davidge Hall and maintain its museum.

Annual Fund: The association administers the annual fund on behalf of the medical school. Gift revenues support student loans and scholarships, lectureships, professorships, capital projects—including Davidge Hall conservation—plus direct support to the various departments and unrestricted support to the dean.

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