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Alumni News

1944 (April)

Carolyn Mann Rawlins, MD, spends part of her leisure time visiting antique malls, estate and yard sales and attending lectures. She’s retired from her OB/GYN practice in High Point, N.C.

From Hood River, Ore., Sam Pobanz, MD, writes that although he is retired from general practice, the physician now has become the patient. “Making rounds on me is only mildly interesting. The blood pressure is responsive; respiration is stable; weight is at college-level; glaucoma is early and behaving; status of arthritis is ordinary; and energy level is about like yours…” His best medical school memory is passing the makeup exams after flunking surgical pathology and tropical medicine; however, he adds he did feel good about getting a 100 percent on the neurology final.

1944 (December)

Knock on wood. All is well with Robert Pickett, MD, who won an award for his forest management efforts. Retired from his internal medicine and gastroenterology practice in Indianapolis; he keeps busy with farming, gardening, wildlife preservation and his family.

He is, in fact, tooting his own horn. William Noe, MD, resides in Fort Myers, Fla., where he plays French horn for the McGregor Baptist Church and with the nearby Naples concert band. He also is retired from his general surgery practice

1949

Lain Tetrick, MD, and his wife are happily ensconced in their “dream home” in Bloomsburg, Pa., where he reports he is still trying to “conquer” water color, acrylic, oil and pastel paintings. Of his medical school instructors, he recalls: “They all contributed to the sweat shop of our medical education.”

Ahhh… getting through those exams at the end of the first year of medical school. That and “class meetings” at the 5th Street Bar are among the recollections of Frank Zeller, MD, of Winter Haven, Fla. He specialized in general and vascular surgery, but now counts his two great-grandchildren his primary specialty.

1954

You might not catch James (Glen) Glenn, MD, surfing the beaches near his St. Croix, Virgin Islands home, but you often will find him hanging 10 on the internet. Traveling, seashore activities and his four grandchildren fill his and his wife’s time. Dr. Glenn, who served 33 years as director and pathologist of the Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center, was honored to have that facility establish a laboratory in his name.

It’s a hands-down prospect that if you possess a presentation pocket watch William Heilman, MD, of New Castle, Ind., will know something about it. He is an expert in this area and has been a speaker at the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors meetings. He counts Drs. Glenn Irwin, Frank Forey, J.O. Ritchey and Lyman Meeks as his favorite professors.

1959

Aug. 6, 2003, is a date that will always raise a flag for William Earnhart, MD, of Boynton Beach, Fla. That’s the day he nailed his first – and only – hole in one on the links. The retired internist now counts golf among his favorite hobbies. He also volunteers at a local clinic for the homeless and migrant workers and serves on the YMCA board of directors.

Here’s the most recent skinny we have on Jon Igelman, MD: He’s retired from his dermatology practice in Richmond, Ind., but remains active as a member of the Wayne County Health Board, the board of directors of the Earlham Cemetery Inc., and as a volunteer with the local Boys and Girls Club. The highlights of his life are close to home, he says. “With my extraordinary wife we proudly produced two successful sons of whom I am immensely proud.”

1963

Robert E. Duncan, MD, recently retired from his plastic surgery practice in Jacksonville, Fla. He served as the chief of plastic surgery at St. Vincent’s Medical Center for more than 25 years, and was associate clinical professor of surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Duncan currently chairs the judicial committee for the Duval County Medical Society.

1964

Don’t look for Majorie Nelson, MD, at her home in Athens, Ohio, in winter. She spends the chilly months at her home in the Bahamas. In more temperate times, she continues to teach part time and serves on the board of trustees of Wilmington College and the board for her local health department.

1969

From Mequon, Wis., comes word from Harrison Parker, MD, that he serves as president of Milwaukee GI Specialists. He’s also clinical professor of medicine for the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He says his professional and personal highlights are leading medical missions to Central American and South America and watching his children mature and marry.

1972

Thomas G. Olsen, MD, was the recent recipient of the Dermatology Foundation’s Clark W. Finneraud Award, which recognizes a dermatologist who demonstrates a commitment to specialty as both a clinician and teacher. Dr. Olsen, Dayton, Ohio, is in private practice and is clinical professor of dermatology at Wright State University School of Medicine.

1974

Here’s a medical school memory that won’t be forgotten: “I was hoisted against the Wishard emergency room wall with my feet dangling by a psych patient who asked, ‘Do you believe in God?’ I got religion that night,” recalls Greg Larkin, MD. The Indianapolis physician prides himself on being “small piece in large puzzle” of Central Indiana’s health-care delivery system. Dr. Larkin enjoys national politics, tennis, scuba diving and stained glass art.

1979

Got a spare Corvette? Give Donald “Stretch” Clutter, MD, Sacramento, Calif., a call because he just might be interested. When he’s not in the OR performing facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, he can be found restoring cars, playing tennis and horseback riding. From his days at IUSM, he remembers vividly the “pig roast at Buck Beeler’s farm.”

1984

Odds are that you won’t ever find Mark E. Dyken, MD, sleeping on the job; he’s trying to help the patients who visit the University of Iowa Health Care Sleep Disorders Center, which he directs. He recently was voted one of the “Best Doctors in America.” For relaxation, he enjoys distance running, farming and performing in a rock band. His most memorable moment as a medical student was “instructing a certain third-year student in her first blood draw, accepting her invitation to a Linda Ronstadt concert – and then marrying her!” That person is Deborah Lin Dyken, MD ’85.

1989

Cezzane (Carroll) Allen, MD, Barnbridge Island, Wash., spends time oil painting and boating. She left her Minneapolis dermatology practice when she and her family moved west.

1994

It’s not uncommon to see some pretty weird stuff at a Denny’s restaurant in the middle of the night – now here’s a real head case: Angela (Burnworth) Bell, MD, recalls studying for anatomy class with the skull sitting on the table in the middle of restaurant with Monica (Bruns) Stone, MD ’94. Dr. Bell is a physician with Total Woman, an obstetrics and gynecology group in Louisville, Ky. Her husband, Bradley Bell, MD ‘94, is a partner with Metropolitan Urology.

1996

It’s good to be a physician, but really “great to be a dad.” That’s what Maurice J. “Jay” Schuetz III, MD, writes from Decatur, Ill. Two years ago, he joined a group of 22 pathologists covering the central Illinois region.