Alumni News

1943
Rolla Burghard, MD, attended his class reunion this spring to catch up on current events with his IUSM classmates. He collects antique glass, refinishes antique furniture, and spends many hours with his nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Dr. Burghard remarried after his first wife died in 1988. These days, he and his wife spend winters in Fairhope, Ala., and summers in Indianapolis.

1952
Martin A. Thomas, MD, retired from his radiology practice in McLean, Va. He underwent mitral valve replacement surgery performed by Edward Lefark, MD '69, this August. Dr. Thomas and his wife Alice will keep their home in Virginia with occasional escapes to their second home on Merritt Island, Fla. He is planning to again shoot double-bogey golf, continue pursuing his avocation in photo-graphy, and read the 500 books he's put aside for retirement years.

1953
Ted Grayson, MD, retired from general surgery practice in Indianapolis in 1991 but certainly hasn't retired from work. He owns a swine seedstock farm and lectures often to civic and professional groups on health care economics with a focus on cost versus quality. He also volunteers for various organizations including Carmel, Ind., schools, Executive Service Corps, and the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Grayson's son has followed in his footsteps, completing a residency in surgery in June 1998.

Byron Lingeman, MD, is still engaged in the full-time practice of ophthalmology in Wellesley Hills, Mass. He also maintains a teaching appointment at Harvard Medical School and is active at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Lingeman and his wife Suzanne have been married thirty-five years and have two daughters. Golf, tennis and puttering around remain his main avocations.

1958
Carl W. Holl Jr., MD, retired from his medical career for the second time in 1996 and has found no lack of opportunities that interest him. After a career in the Air Force as a flight surgeon, he completed a residency in radiology at UCLA and worked as an Air Force radiologist for several years before he began practicing at Community Hospitals Indianapolis. Dr. Holl and his wife live on a lake in Noblesville, Ind., where he does some gentleman farming, repairs boats and docks, and engages in real and virtual travel. He reports that he does not miss going to the office.

John Glascock, MD, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, says his best accomplishments are his children. His daughter Anne is working on her master's degree at Marquette University. His daughter Carol earned a master's degree from the University of North Arizona and now is a science teacher, a mom and coaches three sports. His son Matthew is completing his residency in surgery during which he's written chapters for five textbooks and took third place in an international competition for his essay on laparoscopic urology. His son Bryan is a lawyer serving as executive director of air pollution control in Boston. Bryan is now earning his MBA at Harvard. And son Dan, already a CPA, is now in his third year of medical school at the University of Iowa.

1963
Sioe Tjoan Kwee-Yue, MD, is a cytologist at the physician-owned Physician Reference Laboratory in Shawnee Mission, Kans. She and her husband Ken live in Kansas City, Mo. Her daughter lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and her son lives in Memphis, Tenn. She has one grandson and one granddaughter. She was unable to attend her Class of '63 reunion this past spring because she was a representative to the World Congress of Cytology in Tokyo, Japan. She sends best wishes to her classmates and professors.

William Pugh, MD, has practiced ENT in Bloomington, Ind., since 1971. He currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors for Southern Indiana Surgery Center. He enjoys flying and shares a Cessna 310 with classmate Dean Cofield, MD. Dr. Pugh also flies a corporate jet for Cook, Inc., a manufacturer of special medical catheters, in Bloomington.

1973
Jane Henney, MD, was approved last October as the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. For the past three years, she served as vice president for health sciences at the University of New Mexico. Before that, she was dean of medicine at the University of Kansas. Dr. Henney's husband Bob Graham serves as executive director of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Her brother, Frederic Alan Henney, '80, practices family medicine in Monticello, Ind. Dr. Henney took her post in November.

1978
John W. Christman, MD, is chief of pulmonary and critical care at the VA in Nashville, Tenn., and is associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the molecular and cell biology of lung inflammation. He enjoys beekeeping while away from work and is an assistant scoutmaster. His son Tyler recently made Eagle Scout; his son Zachary is a freshman at University of Pennsylvania; and his daughter Chelsea is in grade school.

Debra Carter Miller, MD, is assistant medical director of an IPA and physician manager of Mapleton Medical Center in Indianapolis. Dr. Miller teaches obesity management and recently became a landlord, buying an office building with three physicians and two other businesses. She is mom to five children who are very busy beginning college, playing football (All-American), cheerleading and mastering the violin. Dr. Miller has added computer literacy to her list of accomplishments.

Bill Ryan, MD, is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He does mostly inpatient clinical work with patients who have schizophrenia or severe mood disorders. In addition, he does some research and sits on the admissions committee. He says he is hooked on building houses with Habitat for Humanity in his spare time. He has four children and finds his household bulging with mammals, including three dogs and two cats.

Francis O. Walker, MD, is on the faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (previously Bowman Gray). His work in neurology led him to publish a manuscript "documenting how mentioning Bill Clinton's name exacerbated right-sided hemiballismus in an arch conservative." He reports that he has yet to try mentioning the name Jesse Helms to a liberal counterpart. Dr. Walker has a daughter Maya who reportedly has two remarkably well-behaved goldfish.

1983
Daniel R. Martin, MD, reports that he is an associate professor and residency program director of The Ohio State University Medical Center Emergency Medicine Resi-dency Program. He has published on topics ranging from cardiac resuscitation to the treatment of pneumonia. His students have named him "teacher of the year." Dr. Martin misses IU and is looking for the school to start an emergency medicine residency program at IUMC. He fondly recalls his times of being "kleited" by Stuart Kleit, MD, who recently retired as associate dean of clinical affairs.

Christi Redmon, MD, is in practice with another IU alumna, Catherine Reese, MD, in Peru, Ind. They both practice obstetrics and gynecology and would welcome another ob/gyn to their practice. Dr. Redmon is mom to four children ages fourteen to four. She reports that the older they become, the busier life is.

1988
Stephanie Coffman-Fitz, MD, is in private practice with another general psychiatrist and two child psychiatrists in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Coffman-Fitz's daughter Kaitlyn is in kindergarten. Kaitlyn's sister Kristen is now a toddler. The Community Mental Health Clinic recently recognized Dr. Coffman-Fitz with a Distinguished Service Award. She is the first physician in her community to receive this award.