Fall 2000

Alumni News

1940

Richard E. Dukes, MD, and his wife Kathleen Cox Dukes celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Jan. 26, 2000. They have four children, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

F.H. Simmons, MD, has been retired for 10 years. He lives on Lake Wawasee in northern Indiana year-round. He walks six miles a day and enjoys yard work and his time-share in New Orleans.

Robert E. Switzer, MD, retired from child psychiatry in 1995 and now dedicates his time to the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, square dancing and volunteering as a home care companion with Hospice of Northern Virginia.

Oscar A. Fodor, MD, has incorporated the leisure activities of fishing, traveling and music, as well as medical rounds at the University of Washington into his retirement. He and his wife Frances have been married for 56 years and have five children and nine grandchildren.

Kathryn E. Campbell Sussott, MD, moved to the Quail Golf Course in Carmel Valley, Calif. in November 1994. She lives within a mile of her older son and his wife and their two children. Dr. Sussott's husband Col. John L. Sussott, died in Hawaii in January 1993. Their younger son Daniel Sussott, MD, has served in Southeast Asia and is now in Hawaii.

D.L. Tennant, MD, is retired and tackles hobbies such as collecting music boxes and phonographs, antique watches and clocks. Dr. Tennant also enjoys repairing antique clocks and playing blue grass and square dance music on the violin.

1945

Ainslee A. Hood, MD, is enjoying flower gardening. He lost his wife Virginia in 1997 after 54 years of marriage. Dr. Hood survived a massive hemorrhage 18 hours after his quadruple bypass surgery in October 1999.
Richard O'Bryan, MD, has been retired for 20 years and lives near the beach in Florida. He enjoys golfing and going to horse races. He and his wife Mary Alice have traveled to every country in the world except Russia but are planning a trip there.

James A. Alford, MD, is retired and playing golf and bridge and participating in church and community service. He is a member of the board of directors of Capital Health Plan, an HMO he believes is both patient-doctor friendly. Dr. Alford has been married to his wife Mary since 1943.

James L. Garrison, MD, delivered about 900 children in his 38 years of rural family practice. He now devotes his time to caring for nearly five acres with 11 fruit trees and a small garden. He also writes that he is "monitoring" his two sons, ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Charles Hamilton, MD, enjoys retirement after practicing anesthesiology for 40 years. In 1997, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists. He now lives on a farm where he enjoys hunting, fishing, woodworking and gardening. He and his wife Mary Lou celebrated 58 years together in June 1999.

Leon Liverett, MD, is retired and enjoys golf, computer puttering and singing. He was named Physician of the Year in 1985 by Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC. His wife Jane is a watercolorist.

John H.O. Mertz, MD, refinishes wooden boats. One of his daughters is a radiologist at the IUSM and the other is a speech pathologist in Florida. His son is a financial officer with a retirement home company.

1954

Sheldon Stern, MD, continues to see patients three-and-a-half days each week. His hobbies are painting, drawing, reading, playing the piano and studying Hebrew and the Torah. He also plays golf and tennis and skis. Dr. Stern is a retired assistant professor of ophthalmology at Wayne State University, where he received the Best Teacher Award four times.

1955

Buron O. Lindbloom, MD, is still in family practice at Medical Associates in Pierre, S.D. His son practices obstetrics/gynecology at the same clinic. The elder Dr. Lindbloom has delivered more than 5,600 babies and is the chairman of the South Dakota Aeronautics Commission.

Francis E. McAree, MD, stopped practicing obstetrics/gynecology it 1998. He still does gynecological surgery and teaches. Dr. McAree's son practices general surgery and his daughter is an attorney in Washington, D.C. The elder Dr. McAree was given the Distinguished Physician Award by Community Hospitals of Indianapolis in 1988.

Ray W. Nicholson, MD, writes the he "flunked retirement" and is working as director of the St. Mary's Medical Center Family Practice Residency program in Evansville, Ind. He also is active in the National Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Nicholson received the Philanthropist of the Year award from the NAFP. He recently married Cynthia, whom he first dated 50 years ago.

William T. Wilder, MD, retired from private practice in internal medicine last July after 29 years. He served as the medical director of the Cleveland Indians for 30 years and is now the team's medical consultant.

Vincent B. Alig, MD, and his wife Mary Jean celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary last June. They spend spring and fall in Indianapolis, winters in Florida and summers in Michigan. The couple has four children and 11 grandchildren.

David Jones, MD, is retired after having bilateral hip replacements in 1990. He is on the board of the Human Care Marco Lutheran Church and is sponsoring lay training to use automatic defibrillation and CPR for people staffing public facilities. His daughter Dr. Tamilyn Jones Bakas is a statistical research and clinical associate professor at IU School of Nursing.

Marvin Priddy, MD, was named the Family Practice Doctor of the Year by the State of Indiana in 1994. He was also a runner-up for the U.S. Family Physician of the Year award in 1995. Former Gov. Evan Bayh named Dr. Priddy a Sagamore of the Wabash in 1996.

1959

Lindley H. Wagner, MD, is retired but serves as an emeritus assistant dean of Indiana University School of Medicine and the dean emeritus director of the Lafayette Center for Medical Education. He is also the emeritus coordinator of the Lafayette Medical Education Foundation, Inc. He received the Sagamore of the Wabash Award in 1998. The Lindley H. Wagner Anatomy Suite was named in his honor at the Lafayette Center at Purdue University.

1960

Robert V. Barrett, MD, is retired and lives in southern California with his wife LuAnn. He enjoys his yacht in Newport Beach and devotes much of his time to charity work. In 2001, he plans to travel to Tanzania, East Africa, to teach radiology.

Paul E. Brose, MD, is the attending physician in internal medicine at Defiance Clinic and Defiance Hospital in Defiance, Ohio. He is also the chairman of the department of medicine at the hospital and president of the Defiance County Medical Society. He is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo.

John Harvey, MD, is "mostly retired," but still conducts Federal Aviation Administration physicals. He and his wife of 45 years, Ruth, also travel in their motor home.

James Killman, MD, is a professor emeritus of surgery at Ohio State University. He is a medical consultant for a large insurance company and has recently "semi-retired." He and his wife Priscilla raise and show boxer dogs. They also run their 800-acre farm and raise cattle.

Fred Boling, MD, retired from the medical department of Eastman Chemical Company in early 1998. Before his 17 years with Eastman, he was in family practice. Dr. Boling plays the piano in a band, serves on the mission committee at his church and enjoys participating in the Kiwanis Club and traveling.

Russell Malcolm, Jr., MD, spent October 1999 driving 8,000 miles through 17 western states. He enjoys fishing and spending time with his grandchildren. He recently served as president of his local opera company for three years.

Gene Ress, MD, serves as the sports medicine physician for all school athletes in Tell City and Perry County, Ind. He and his wife Naomi have been married for 42 years and live on a horse farm, where he says they have become members of "Manure Movers of America." They also produce musical theatre for Tell City. Dr. Ress was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1987.

Masate Takahashi, MD, works fulltime as a pediatric cardiologist at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and was given its "Distinguished Service Award." He is involved in patient care and student education as well as research concerning Kawasaki disease, a pediatric malady.

1969

Cory SerVaas, MD, is editor of the Saturday Evening Post, editorial director for the Children's Better Health Institute and the founder, president and CEO of the Benjamin Franklin Literacy and Medical Society. She has 19 grandchildren.

1976

Richard K. Parrish, MD, has accepted the position of associate dean for graduate medical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Fla. He will oversee graduate medical education programs such as residencies and fellowships. He looks forward to tackling new approaches to education such as Web-based learning, telemedicine and interactive teaching.

1979

Douglas E. Hall, MD, works at the Lakewood Medical Center emergency room. He spent four years practicing medicine in the African bush and plans to return once his three children, ages 18, 16 and 14, are grown.

Dana Reihman, MD, practices pulmonary medicine in Richmond, Ind. He is married to Eileen Cravins, MD '82. Dr. Reihman is a triathlete and participated in the 1999 Boston Marathon.

Mark Wineinger, MD, is an associate professor at University of California - Davis School of Medicine in the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation. His paper titled "Effects of Exercise and Aging on Fatigue in the m-dx Mouse" was awarded Best Research Paper of the Year by the Association of Academic Psychiatrists in 1998.

Alan B. Patterson, MD, married Michele Marie Bouche June 17 at the Ocean Club in Paradise Island, Bahamas. They reside in Boca Raton, Fla., where Dr. Patterson has two offices practicing obstetrics, gynecology and infertility. He also has a third office in Coral Springs, Fla.

1984

David E. Matthews, MD, continues to work at Moi University in Kenya. He has been practicing there for four years.

Trina Chapman-Smith, MD, has a solo family practice with obstetrics in Auburn, Ind., a community with about 12,000 residents. She also runs an industrial medicine clinic for a local factory and serves as the team doctor for the DeKalb High School football and basketball teams. She and her husband live on a 160-acre farm with their two children, Corbin, 10, and Taylor, 6.

Michael Dohrenwend, MD, is in private practice in gastroenterology in Dotham, Ala. He and his wife have four children. He writes that he still enjoys playing video games but still can't golf.