Class Notes

      

1934: Samuel Diener of Annapolis, Md., celebrated his 90th birthday on December 9, 2000 and has traveled to Florida for three months relaxation in the sun.

1943M: Charles A. Neff of Lebanon, Pa., reports that he is retired and enjoying reasonably good health. He and wife Libby have been together 60 years.
1943D: Joseph Bitsack of Mahwaw, N.J., enjoys teaching third year medical students and has been blessed with good health. Alfred H. Dann has closed his allergy-clinical immunology practice after 44 years in Sacramento, Calif.
1947: Francis K. Machata moved to Rhode Island and, at age 83, moves about freely and is mentally alert.
1948: John R. Shell has retired to Gulf Shores, Ala., to lower his golf handicap.

1950: Harriet Husted Wooten and husband John of Greenville, N.C., returned for the 50th Reunion last spring. They combined reunion with a week long elder hostel at Peabody Institute in Mt. Vernon Place where several members of the class lived as students. They also drove out to West Baltimore to see the changes made to Baltimore city hospitals.
1951: Joseph Deckelbaum of Baltimore retired from his internal medicine practice on August 1, 2000, 45 years after finishing a tour as flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force. Benjamin D. Gordon of Yarmouthport, Mass., occasionally covers the Occupational Medical Clinic at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth. He is a volunteer on the town library board and for the Cape Cod Chapter of the Red Cross. Harvey P. Wheelwright of Morgan, Utah works 21/2 days each week at University Counseling Service.
1952: Richard A. Sindler of Towson, Md., is an antique dealer and enjoys playing tennis and traveling with wife Victoria, a real estate agent.
1954: Jean B. Smith and husband Barry of New York City have joined another ophthalmology practice and are cutting back to three days a week.
1955: Richard Leighton of Savannah, Ga., received an honorary doctor of science degree and delivered the commencement address at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, Ohio, on June 2, 2000. F. Richard Walton is living in Avon, Ind., close to his children and grandchildren. He continues to teach and is active in trauma, after trying retirement for a short stint.
1956: Charles Sanislow of Midland, Mich., retired from general and vascular surgery but continues to work as director of Mid MiMed Center Vascular Lab, advisor to Comprehensive Breast Care, and was appointed by the governor to Michigan’s state board of medicine. Virginia Sherr of Holland, Pa., reports that son Greg is in his first year at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y.
1957: James K. Bouzoukis of Wilmington, Del., is retired; however, he continues to teach and work, at times, in a local free clinic. He is taking up golf.
1958: Albert Heck returned to Baltimore after retiring as clinical professor of neurology at West Virginia University School of Medicine in Charleston. He was elected to the 1999 directory of Best Doctors in America. Maurice M. Reeder of Potomac, Md., co-authored the 2nd edition of 1,700 page text The Imaging of Tropical Diseases. He recently initiated the international registry of tropical imaging at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, where he is adjunct professor of radiology. Dr. Reeder reports that he is enjoying the good life in Potomac after returning from a 22 year career at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.
1959: Joseph L. Darr of Indian Wells, Calif., received a heart transplant three years ago. He retired after 12 years of military duty and 30 years of private practice.

1960: Jerome Ross and wife Ruth of Baltimore became grandparents to Ethan Michael on April 19, 2000.
1961: George E. Urban Jr., of Clinton, Md., maintains an ENT practice in the Maryland/DC suburbs. He spends free time canoeing and kayaking at his home in Deep Creek Lake. His five children and six grandchildren are scattered from Alaska to Florida. Dr. Urban collects wine and eats well, yet his weight remains stable. What more could a person ask for?
1962: Robert Bokat of Hilton Head, S.C., retired from pediatrics in August 2000. He has three daughters and three grandchildren. Robert A. McCormick of Santa Fe, N.M., reports that HMOs are killing his medical practice. Ted Patterson and wife Sylvia of Baltimore shared the gracious hospitality of classmate Dave Musgjerd and wife Barb in LaCrosse, Wis., during a recent vacation.
1965: Carlos Mendez-Bryan of San Juan, P.R., reports that he lost wife Carmen to ovarian cancer in November 1997.
1966: Jay Barrash of Houston sold his automobile dealership in 1999 and has started a national imaging and lithography business. Stuart L. Fine of Philadelphia is completing his tenth year as professor and chair of ophthalmology and director of the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Wife Ellie retired temporarily from teaching when they relocated in 1991 and is an active volunteer and travel companion. Daughter Karen, born one week before medical school graduation, has been married for twelve years and lives with husband Tom and two children in Winston-Salem, N.C., where Tom is assistant professor of pediatric surgery at Wake Forest University. Son Andy is pediatric chief resident at the University of California, San Francisco, and his wife is senior resident in ophthalmology there. The couple plans to relocate to the east coast for fellowship training.
1969: Donald Baldwin of Lawton, Okla., reports that son David is in his third year of a University of Florida emergency medicine residency. Son Jon is in his second year of a University of Oklahoma OB/GYN residency, and daughter-in-law Lisa is in her second year of medical school at the University of Oklahoma, where Dr. Baldwin serves on the admissions board. He is also president of his county medical society. Ronald Katz of Potomac, Md., ran in the Marine Corps marathon in Washington, D.C., on October 22nd with daughter Jennifer. Felix Kaufman of Pikesville, Md., received the pediatrician of the year award from the Maryland chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Kaufman recently retired as president of the chapter. Stanton C. Kessler of Sherburn, Mass., is a contributing author to the fourth edition of Spitz & Fisher’s Medical Legal Investigation of Death. Leon Reinstein of Baltimore received the distinguished member award from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

1970: David Tapper of Mercer Island, Wash., is president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association through May 2001. He was elected by the American College of Surgeons to represent surgery on the resident review committee of the ACGME beginning in June 2001. Norman W. Taylor of Beckley, W. Va., is happily retired from the U.S. Navy (1992) and medicine (1996.)
1971: Jerry Herbst of Boca Raton, Fla., received an MBA in June 2000. His consulting group added risk management to its portfolio. Robert B. Lehman maintains his psychiatry practice in Baltimore and is medical director of Pharmapsych Research, Inc. R. Henry Richards retired from King Pharmaceuticals and established Advocate Resources, a professional relations firm. He is president of the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and is relocating to California. Peter L. Sitaras of Fallston, Md., is chief of surgery at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air.
1972: Deborah Brandchaft Matro has a son graduating from Williams College in June. Her twin daughters are sophomores/pre-medical students. Jennifer is at Duke while Becky is at Cornell. Nelson Hendler of Stevenson, Md., was invited to lecture about the proper diagnosis of chronic pain at the Armed Forces Hospital in Saudi Arabia and the Far Eastern Medical School in Manila, Philippines. John A. Niziol of Wayne, N.J., is in his 26th year as a partner in Notchview Pediatrics. The original practice which consisted of three physicians has grown to ten.
1973: Edward M. Eisenbrey of Ft. Washington, Md., recently returned to practice gynecology in Southern Maryland after an autologous peripheral stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma in February 2000 (diagnosed in April 1999). To date he is in total remission. Dr. Eisenbrey was elected treasurer of the Gynecological Surgical Society in January 2000.
1974: Arthur P. Liang of Atlanta was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Asia Pacific Regional Conference entitled “Food Safety Initiatives Influencing Public Health and Trade” in Auckland, New Zealand in August. He presented on U.S. approaches to food-borne disease surveillance and on outbreaks associated with produce. David L. Zisow of Pikesville, Md., announces that eldest son Brad is engaged to be married to Renee Bell in July 2001. Youngest son Matt is the symposium editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Wife Marcie will soon earn her doctorate in the field of instructional technology and distance education. Dr. Zisow continues in solo practice in OB/GYN.
1975: L. Edward Perraut Jr., of Bethesda, Md., has a son, Michael, who began medical school at the University of Maryland last fall.
1976: Mark Bohlman of Millersville, Md., married Mary Ellen on April 29, 2000. Vincent DeLaGarza and wife Judith of Morgantown, W. Va., were awarded first prize for the most creative way of cooking possums at the Monongahela Possum Festival in May 2000. Lani S. M. Wheeler of Annapolis, Md., was awarded the Martin Ushkow Memorial Award for community service by the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on School Health.
1978: Elizabeth Kingsley of Arnold, Md., is president of the medical staff at Anne Arundel Medical Center. She was honored by the American Heart Association at the Anne Arundel County AHA Heart Ball. Jeremy S. Musher of Pittsburgh is president of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society through May 2001. Stephen A. Valenti of Arnold, Md. was featured on the cover of the November 1999 Baltimore Magazine as one of Baltimore’s top 15 cardiologists. As leader of the band Stevie V. and the Heart Attackers, he performed with Harry Belafonte at the January 2000 Heartfest in Baltimore. Dr. Valenti continues as associate medical director of the Central Maryland Heart Center and cardiac catheter lab in Columbia.
1979: Alan Gaby and wife Beth Fifield of Seattle, Wash., have a new baby, Daniel. Gaby is coauthor of The Patient’s Book of Natural Healing, a book about nutritional and herbal medicine. Jan Hoffman of Wichita, Kan., founded a diabetes education program at the Wichita Clinic which has received national recognition by the American Diabetes Association. Jan is editor-in-chief of Freedom with Diabetes, a reference manual of diabetes care algorithms for primary care physicians. Owen Wolkowitz of Palo Alto, Calif., is professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Daughter Mikaela, born June 30, 2000, joins five year-old Gavin. H. Russel Wright of Baltimore is president of the Maryland Society of Otolaryngology and is a member of the executive committee of the board of governors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.

1980: Catherine Crute has a private family practice in Portland, Maine.
1981: Carol S. Marshall of Dixon, Calif., is assistant clinical professor of pathology at the University of California Medical Center. Marilyn Righetti of Twin Falls, Idaho practices otolaryngology, head and neck surgery with her husband, Rod Kack, MD. Together they have four children in addition to caring for three foster children. She remains an active skier and tennis player and welcomes classmates to her beautiful part of the country.
1982: Guillermo W. Arnaud of Rockville, Md., is chief of the general surgery clinic at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and is looking forward to leaving the Army next year.
1983: Protagoras Cutchis of Highland, Md., is senior vice president of BioStar, Inc., after working 16 years at Johns Hopkins University. Mary Jo Johnson of Baltimore is chief of obstetrics at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Towson.
1985: Michael J. Hallowell of Sewell, N.J., celebrated his 50th birthday bicycling in Brittany and Normandy. He also participated in his 11th Cycle Across Maryland Tour. Sharon Samuels of Albany, N.Y., is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
1986: John F. Rubin of Boca Raton, Fla., announces the birth of Allison Maxine on January 10, 2000. She joins sister Paige, six. Dr. Rubin has a solo internal medicine practice.
1987: Scott J. Schaffer of Fort Collins, Colo., announces that wife Wendy gave birth to Lauren Kayla on June 2. She is the couple’s first child.
1988: Eugene Finan is in his tenth year of practice in Naples, Fla., and recently passed the internal medicine re-certification exam. He is helping coach son Jason, age six, at YMCA baseball. Keith Gustafson is chief of anesthesia at Pensacola Naval Air Station Hospital in Florida. He was recently promoted to the rank of commander. Noam Stadlan of Skokie, Ill., celebrated his eighth wedding anniversary to Marianne Novak. They have two girls, Zehavya, four, and Batsheva, two. Dr. Stadlan is partner in the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch, assistant professor at Rush Medical College, and recently completed the board certification process.
1989: Brian Eastridge of Dallas is assistant professor of surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern. He married Maggie Latimer on July 22, 2000. Janice Miller of Baltimore is a board certified psychiatrist with a private practice in Columbia and Owings Mills. Merdad Parsey of New York City is director of critical care medicine at NYU School of Medicine. John Wiley and wife Karen of Millersville, Md. announce the birth of Matthew Lee Wiley on June 28, 2000. He joins sister Jennifer.

The Medical Alumni Association Have you ever wondered how the Medical Alumni Association is governed? A board of directors, listed on the contents page of this magazine, oversees activities of the Association. It consists of five officers and nine directors. The board has several standing committees which oversee reunion, alumni awards, board nominations, bylaws, budget and finances, preservation of Davidge Hall and the Bowers Collection of Medical Artifacts, and production of the Bulletin magazine. Many proposals and policies are studied on the committee level before presentation to the full board and general membership.    The Board meets four times each year in addition to the annual business meeting during Reunion. Dues-paying members are invited to attend meetings and are encouraged to notify board members or the alumni office of their interest in becoming actively involved. For more information please contact Larry Pitrof, executive director, at 410-706-7454.

1990: Bonnie Harte and husband John of Bethesda, Md., announce the birth of Rachel Sara on May 19. She joins brother Joshua. Dennis J. Van Zant of Rocky Mount, N.C., welcomes the arrival of his fourth child, Garrett Benjamin, on April 6, 2000. He reports that life is very busy.
1991: Karen Lynn Gibbons of San Antonio, Tex., regrets that she will be unable to attend the reunion in the spring, as she is expecting her second child in early May. Jennifer A. Hollywood opened a solo practice in family medicine in Easton, Md. She reports that things are going well and she is extremely busy. Kaarkuzhali Babu Krishnamurthy of Brookline, Mass., announces the birth of a third child, Prashant, on April 4, 2000. Michael L. Ault is associate chief for the section of critical care medicine and assistant professor in the department of anesthesiology at Northwestern University Medical School. Sam Mirarchi is looking forward to the ten year reunion in spring. He recently completed his MBA at Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in medical services management.
1992: Elizabeth Scarito reports that she is still in York, Pennsylvania in private practice but is now a partner. One of her colleagues is Edwin Foster, ’85. Dr. Scarito’s son Michael is 12 years old and husband Phil continues as a federal employee in the Army Corp of Engineers.
1993: Debra Hurtt of Cumberland, Md., has entered a partnership at Children’s Medical Group with five other pediatricians. The group regularly has University of Maryland medical students out for rotations. Husband Michael Stasko maintains a general and vascular surgery practice. Lore B. Wootton of Weiser, Idaho enjoys serving as the mother of three and this year is hosting an exchange student from Denmark.
1994: Paul M. Berger has joined a urology private practice in Clinton, N.C., after completing residency in Hershey, Pa. He and wife Julie have two children: Andy (nine) and Anna (six). Stacy Gittleson-Fisher and Stephen Fisher, MD/PhD ’96 of Rochester, N.Y., announce the arrival of Michael Jacob on May 18, 2000. They plan to return to Baltimore in July 2001. Christopher S. Highfill has a private orthopaedic practice in Manassas, Va. He announces the birth of Mia, his second, on August 18, 2000. Kenneth Sibila of Baltimore is a partner at Towson Medical Associates.
1995: Meredith Josephs is medical director of La Clinica del Pueblo, a free clinic serving the Latino immigrant community in Washington, D.C. Katherine Layton of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a pediatric hospitalist at the University of Michigan after completing her chief resident year. The news is reported by husband, Charles Brett Hofmann, ’96.
1996: Christian D. Bounds is enjoying the second year of a cardiology fellowship at the University of Maryland. He and his wife live in Catonsville, Md. Maureen G. Burdett of Baltimore married Chris Summers in March. She is chief resident in general surgery at UMMS. Nicholas Jerrard of Fallbrook, Calif., joined Pediatric Partners in Temecula. Frederick “Tom” Kaplan of New York City was married September 16, 2000. He recently accepted a hand surgery fellowship at the Indiana Hand Center. Robyn Miller enjoys a private pediatric practice in Atlanta. Angela D. Smedley of Clarksville, Md., announces the arrival of Alexander Jenaro, her second, on September 17, 2000. Reza Tirgari of Atlanta swam the English Channel in August 2000.
1997: Jennifer Bamford of Mt. Wolf., Pa., joined a large group practice in York after completing residency in family practice. She announces the birth of son Julian. David Cosenza has joined a small practice in Belhaven, N.C., located in the eastern part of the state. Shannon Fox of New York City is chief resident in pediatrics at NYU-Bellevue Hospital Center. Heidi Ginter of Marlborough, Mass., was married October 7, 2000. Nicholas Meyer is serving a residency in OB/GYN at the University of Louisville. Barbara Piasecki is serving a GI/hepatology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania after completing her residency in internal medicine at Yale.
1998: Christina M. Figlozzi of New Hyde Park, NY, is engaged to Manav Singla, MD, a pediatric resident in her program at Schneider Children’s Hospital. They plan to wed in June 2001. Heather D. Mannuel of Baltimore will serve as chief resident in internal medicine for UMMS/VA for 2001–02. Following residency she is planning for a fellowship in hematology/oncology. Stacie B. Peddy of Phoenix, Md., plans to begin a combination fellowship in pediatric critical care and pediatric cardiology in July 2001 at Johns Hopkins. Stasia S. Reynolds of Baltimore plans to complete residency in June 2001 and then take a one year leave before pursuing a geriatric fellowship at Hopkins Bayview. David M. Steele of Annapolis, Md., is a senior health analyst at Gomez.
1999: Lenny Feldman reports that life in Carrboro, N.C., is wonderful, and he congratulates everyone for finishing a year of internship.

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