Thomas B. Turner, ’25
Baltimore
September 22, 2002

Dr. Turner graduated third in his class at Maryland. He became a postdoctoral fellow in the department of medicine at Johns Hopkins in 1927, assigned to the syphilis unit. Research in syphilis and related diseases would become his lifelong specialty. In 1929, Dr. Turner was assigned to Haiti to research yaws, and, in 1932, went to Jamaica to head a Rockefeller Foundation study of the tropical skin disease. After several years in Jamaica and one year at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, he returned to Johns Hopkins in 1937 as professor of microbiology. During World War II, he joined a secret group studying Nazi Germany’s biological warfare capabilities, then developed the Army’s venereal disease control program. He ended his military service as a civil affairs officer in North Africa and Europe. Returning to Johns Hopkins, Dr. Turner became the
medical school’s dean from 1957–68. During this time the size of the medical school’s physical plant doubled in size, the annual operating budget increased 500 percent, and the faculty nearly doubled. The departments of biophysics, laboratory animal medicine and biomedical engineering were also established during his tenure. He completed his career at Johns Hopkins as its archivist, authoring Heritage of Excellence: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1914–1947. Another of his publications, Part of Medicine, Part of Me, was released in 1981. The school’s auditorium at Monument Street and Rutland Avenue is named in his honor. Dr. Turner outlived two wives, Anne (who passed away in 1960) and Lorna (who passed away in 1982), and is survived by daughters Pattie and Anne, step-daughter June, five grandsons and seven great-grandchildren.

John F. Masterson, ’31
Point Pleasant Beach,
   New Jersey
August 30, 2002

Dr. Masterson interned at St. Michael’s Hospital in Newark and became their first surgical resident in 1932. Following training, he established a private practice in Irvington where he remained for 54 years, retiring in 1987. At St. Michael’s, Dr. Masterson served as president of the staff in 1955, chief of surgical services, and was a member of the executive committee for several years. He was also affiliated with Presbyterian Hospital in Newark and St. Mary’s Hospital in Orange. In 1965, Dr. Masterson was given a surprise testimonial dinner by 400 grateful patients, colleagues and friends for 33 years of selfless service in healing the sick. He and wife Marion retired to Point Pleasant after retirement. In addition to his wife, Dr. Masterson is survived by three physician sons, seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

Arthur J. Statman, ’32
Lakewood, New Jersey
October 1, 2002

Dr. Statman practiced gastroenterology for 56 years in Newark, Irvington, Whiting and Manchester, N.J., before retiring in 1988. He was president of the New Jersey Gastroenterology Association from 1955–56. He was a member of the American Physicians for Medicine in Israel and the New Jersey and Essex County medical societies. Dr. Statman was chief of gastroenterology clinics at Newark City Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital. He was a member of the Orpheus Chorus in Roseland, a flutist in the Crestwood Symphonette, and a former singer with the Crestwood Chorus and Pine Barrens Male Chorus in Manchester. Dr. Statman is survived by wife Sylvia, son Dr. Arthur Jr., daughter Elaine, two grandchildren and brother Bernhardt, ’37.

Sam Beanstock, ’33
San Antonio, Texas
April 18, 2002

Born in London, England, Dr. Beanstock came to America in 1920 and was naturalized in 1923. He earned a BS degree from New York University before graduating from Maryland. He received training at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., TB Sea View Hospital on
Staten Island, and Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. Dr. Beanstock practiced psychiatry from 1937 until 1942 when he served three years in the U.S. Army. From 1945–70 he worked for the Veterans Administration, before beginning a series of hospital administrative positions in Illinois, Virginia, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was a diplomate of the American Board
of Psychiatry and Neurology and a fellow in the American Psychiatric Association. Wife Winifred predeceased him in 1991.

Joseph R. Deitz, ’34
Yardley, Pennsylvania

Dr. Deitz was chief surgical resident at the Hospital for Joint Disease in New York City. His orthopaedic surgical practice was interrupted during WWII when he served in the Army Air Corps. He was attending outpatient surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, chief of orthopaedics at Trenton Orthopaedic Hospital, and attending orthopaedic surgeon at Mercer Medical Center during a 50-year career. He was preceded in death by wife Helene and is survived by two daughters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Jaime L. Costas-Durieux, ’38
Ponce, Puerto Rico
September 4, 2002

Dr. Costas became the first medical doctor in Puerto Rico to be formally trained in cardiovascular surgery and established many “firsts” in Puerto Rico. In 1953, he performed the first open heart surgery. The same year he performed the first operation in Puerto Rico dividing the aorta from the pulmonary artery; and he was the first surgeon to perform Pott’s operation as well as the first commissurotomies in the youngest and the oldest patients. Dr. Costas’ father graduated from Maryland in 1910 and granddaughter Ainhoa Costas-Chavarri will earn her medical degree from Maryland in spring of ’03.

Thompson Pearcy, ’41
Charleston, West Virginia
August 2002
Dr. Pearcy practiced general medicine in Charleston. He and wife Patricia had five children, one of whom is a physician.

Eli Galitz, ’43D
Miami, Florida
July 23, 2002

Dr. Galitz trained in internal medicine at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn and was a member of a group practice in Miami. He was an active member of the Medical Alumni Association, serving as honorary regional vice president and was a member of the John Beale Davidge Alliance, the medical school’s recognition society for major donors. His most memorable experience was watching three sons follow in his footsteps into the medical field.

Charles K. Ferguson, ’51
Cincinnati, Ohio
January 30, 2002

After completing an OB/GYN
residency at Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati, Dr. Ferguson spent
thirteen years in private practice in Cincinnati and Melford. Following two years of intensive therapy recuperating from paralysis of his right side resulting from a cerebral aneurysm in 1968, Dr. Ferguson completed a fellowship in psychiatric medicine and was employed by the Cincinnati Health Department in its OB/GYN clinics. In 1977, he joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine as an assistant professor and director of the OB/GYN outpatient clinic. Dr. Ferguson retired in 1991. He is survived by wife Irma, sons Kent and Dale, ’80 and one grandson.

Scott P. Wallace, ’52
Provo, Utah
2000

James G. Zimmerly, ’66
Boonsboro, Maryland
September 23, 2002

During his junior year of medical school, Dr. Zimmerly, on active duty in the U.S. Army, enrolled in law school at Maryland. He completed his law degree while interning at Walter Reed General Hospital, before setting out to complete a master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins. Residency work at Walter Reed required work on a research project, and Dr. Zimmerly found himself in the department of bacterial diseases where meningococcal meningitis was a major military concern. Dr. Zimmerly was credited with perfecting the vaccine and its testing. During the Vietnam War, he traveled throughout South Vietnam and Cambodia tracking infectious diseases, inspecting prisoner-of-war camps for humane treatment, and ensuring that troops were properly protected against diseases such as malaria, hepatitis, tuberculosis and sexually-transmitted diseases. He later found an administrative position which combined his medical and legal backgrounds at the department of legal medicine of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. Dr. Zimmerly chaired the department from 1971–91, working on medical-legal cases for any federal agency employing health care providers. Retiring from the Army as a colonel, he became medical director of Monumental Life Insurance Company in Baltimore as well as president and chair of the Baltimore Rh Typing Laboratory. He further divided his time as an emergency room physician with the Washington County Hospital Trauma Center and Dorchester County Hospital. Dr. Zimmerly was professor of law at the Georgetown University and was a member of Maryland’s faculty in the department of epidemiology and preventive medicine. He is survived by wife Johanna, two daughters, two sons, two stepdaughters, and two grandchildren.

Phillip E. Middleton, ’70
Coffeyville, Kansas
May 17, 2002

Dr. Middleton trained in general surgery and served a surgical oncology fellowship at Roswell Park Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. He was board-certified in general surgery and maintained a general surgery and family practice in Coffeyville for 20 years. Dr. Middleton was active in the Knights of Columbus and served as grand knight from 1988–90. He enjoyed painting and was a member of the local art association. Dr. Middleton is survived by wife Ruth and five children including Rebecca, ’04.
Faculty

Robert T. Parker Sr.
Towson, Maryland
October 3, 2002

After earning a medical degree from Johns Hopkins and training in internal medicine, Dr. Parker completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Maryland and was an associate dean in the late 1950s. He served as chief of private medical services at Maryland from 1959–66 and later was director of medicine and chief of staff at South Baltimore General Hospital (now Harbor Hospital). In 1974, he joined Good Samaritan Hospital as chief of medicine and was promoted to vice president of medical affairs. During this time he maintained good relations with Maryland, attracting many of its interns and residents. He retired from Good Samaritan in 1989. Dr. Parker is survived by wife Helen, one daughter, three sons, and ten grandchildren.