Alumni News

1931
Edward M. Sirlin, MD, and his wife Phoebe live independently in Fort Wayne and continue to enjoy retirement.

1936
Joseph E. Walther, MD, was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from Purdue University in April 1998. Dr. Walther is president and chief executive officer of Walther Cancer Institute, Inc., a non-profit medical research organization devoted to the elimination of cancer through research.

1939
Ted Grisell, MD, was honored with the Legion of Merit (among the highest military awards) 52 years after his military service ended. Dr. Grisell is retired but remains active as a member of the Board of Directors of the Southeast Volusia County, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., American Cancer Society and a planner for the ACS's annual golf tournament.

Robert Kepler, MD, is retired and spending his time doing ham radio and computer activities. He notes that during his career, he delivered more than 5,000 babies.

Louis Nie, MD, is retired but stays busy traveling, volunteering at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and learning how to e-mail his children. His career in psychiatric care lasted almost 44 years. He served as an oral examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry more than 100 times.

Mary Kitchell Spurgeon, MD, retired in 1997 after practicing anesthesiology for 40 years, working in a nursing home for 15 years and serving as a hospice medical director for 10 years. She recently had a knee replacement.

1942
Nevin E. Aiken, MD, retired in July 1998 and is building a new home in Waynesville, N.C. Although he says he has never before painted anything but walls or woodwork, he is experimenting with oil painting with considerable success.

Carlos Brewer, MD, is retired and following his avocation as an amateur photographer who enjoys traveling and bicycling. He has four daughters.

Thomas M. Brown, MD, currently works in an addictions clinic. He is also writing a book and enjoying his wife and eight children. He says he still vividly recalls the day he walked into an open-air aid station during the Battle of Iwo Jima with his classmate Wayne Godrian.

Franklin Bryan, MD, is a physical therapy volunteer at Park View Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind. He started and directed the Fort Wayne Medical Education programs and the IU School of Medicine's Fort Wayne Center.

Kathryn Susott Campbell, MD, left Hawaii after 29 years and is retired and living in Carmel, Ind. She lost her husband, Second Lt. John L. Susott, in January, 1985.

William Dannacher, MD, is retired and living on the banks of the Wabash River. He retired from surgical practice at age 67 and says he continues to enjoy excellent physical and mental health.

1944 April
April Richard M. Davis, MD, is retired from the UCLA School of Medicine Department of Surgery. His Frank Lloyd Wright house, Woodside, is located in Marion, Ind., and has recently been included in the Indiana State and National Register of Historic Places.

Harold B. Houser, MD, has retired and is enjoying spending time playing tennis, pocket billiards, doing lawn and garden work and researching genealogy. He has five children and 14 grandchildren. During his career, he received the Group Lasker Award, served as president of the American Epidemiological Society and chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Oh.

1944 December
Justin Arata, MD, is retired from surgery but enjoys bridge, golf and volunteering at a clinic for the underserved. He is chairman of the board for an electronics manufacturing company, two gravel companies, three ranches and four energy companies. During his career, Dr. Arata published and conducted surgical research on obesity.

Lloyd Bridges, MD, is fully retired and spends his winters in Florida. He continues to serve as chairman of the Fort Wayne Regional Ivy Tech State College Board. He enjoys spending time with his 13 grandchildren.

Joseph M. Black, MD, Receives Award Created in Mentor's Honor. An adroit juggler of teaching, patient care and public service, Joe Black, MD Dec '44, was recognized by the IU School of Medicine this past spring with the J.O. Ritchey Medal for outstanding service to the medical profession.

For Dr. Black, the recognition carries great sentiment because his favorite professor in medical school was Dr. Ritchey, who also treated him when he contracted erysipelas as a student.

Dr. Black lives in Seymour, Ind., where he practiced obstetrics and gynecology, and where he still serves as county health officer and director of Jackson County Bank. Through the years, he has served as president of the Seymour Boys Club and the Schneck Memorial Hospital and as vice president of the Seymour School Holding Corporation. He also served as chairman of the board of Blue Shield, president of the Indiana State Medical Association, and vice chairman of the Riley Memorial Association.

To his alma mater, Dr. Black gave many years of service as president of the IU Alumni Association, the Well House Society, the IU Foundation Board of Directors and the IU Trustees. He has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Medicine and the IU Chancello's Medallion. Dr. Black and his wife Jane have three children: Joseph M. Black Jr., Deborah Divan and Susan Edwards

1951
K. Charles Wright, MD, retired from his internal medicine practice in 1989, but returned from 1993-95 when his replacement left. He and his wife Katie have four children and 13 grandchildren, including two sets of identical twin girls. Dr. Wright remains active in Rotary Club and his church and enjoys living in northern Michigan.

1952
David E. Wheeler, MD, practiced radiology for 25 years before retiring. He has spent the last 20 years publishing an evangelical magazine with general, medical and biblical information and writings.

1953
John Coleman, MD, was chosen as the 1999 Ohio Academy of Family Physicians Physician of the Year. He and his wife Joan live in Toledo.

1954
Richard C. Boling, MD, has a part-time practice of ophthalmology in Elkhart, Ind., with his older son Richard C. Boling II. His older daughter Kathy is the clinic's office manager and his younger daughter Jennifer is a nurse in the clinic. Dr. Boling's younger son Mark is an attorney in Houston.

F. Robert Brueckmann, MD, has retired from Orthopaedics Indianapolis, Inc., the largest private practice of orthopaedics in the country, which he co founded. He is president of the American Fracture Association and the Clinical Orthopaedic Society. He also has taught internal medicine since his retirement.

George A. Clark, MD, has been retired from ophthalmology for nearly three years. He is catching up on reading, exercising and working around the house. He also helps a fraternity in Bloomington manage their house. Dr. Clark says he was the first ophthalmologist in Indiana to be trained to insert the intra-ocular lens as a replacement for cataract. This treatment has now become the preferred method worldwide.

Mark L. Dyken, MD, is a professor emeritus of neurology at Indiana University. He is also the editor-in-chief of STROKE, serves on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and is an American Board of Psychiatry Neurology representative to the American Board of Medical Specialties.

Joe Ebbinghouse, MD, has taken to flying the friendly skies since he retired after 35 years of private practice in internal medicine. Dr. Ebbinghouse recently earned his private pilot's license. During his career, he served on active duty in the United States Air Force and 30 years as a Florida Air National Guard State Air Surgeon. He is also volunteering at a clinic for the homeless.

Dallas B. Fouts Sr., MD, retired in 1995 from his internal medicine practice, which began as a solo practice but has grown to include eight physicians. Dr. Fouts has also served Independence Regional Hospital, Lee's Summit, Mo., in several capacities: as president of the medical staff, chairman of the Department of Medicine, a member of the executive committee and a member of the board of trustees.

1956
Paul M. Inlow, MD, received the Sagamore of the Wabash Award in January 1998. A ceremony was held in the Department of Radiology at Major Hospital in Shelbyville, Ind. to honor the 70 years of medical service Dr. Inlow and his father, the late Dr. Herbert Inlow, have given to the hospital and community. The department was renamed the Inlow Imaging Center.

1959
H. Gibbs Andrews, MD, says he is "three-quarters retired" as chief of pediatric surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children's Hospital. He resides in Salt Lake City with his wife, Sue, who is a flight attendant for Skywest Airlines. Dr. Andrews was responsible for the successful separation of conjoined twins in May 1996 and did a second such operation in October 1998.

Delano Z. Arvin, MD, has become a world traveler since his retirement in 1994. He has been to Antarctica three times, Tanzania and Costa Rica twice, and Belize, Galapagos, Ecuador, Alaska, Brazil and Hawaii. He plans to welcome in the new millennium with trips to Alaska and Chile. More than 50 of Dr. Arvin's photos were included in the book Natural Heritage of Indiana, published in 1997.

H. Edwin Campbell, MD, continues his full-time practice in obstetrics and gynecology in Indianapolis. He received St. Vincent's Hospital Distinguished Physicians Award in 1999. He has ten children.

1963
Robert E. Duncan, MD, was elected chief of plastic surgery at the St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla. He is also clinical associate professor of surgery with the University of Florida College of Medicine.

1964
Kathleen Brough Seicher, MD, recently donned her cap and gown again at age 60 to graduate from the Medical College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a maste'rs degree of public health. In 1997, she became board certified in occupational health and a certified medical reviewer.

Martin Graber, MD, is a missionary physician living among the Maasai people in southern Kenya. He also is currently involved in establishing primary care facilities in underdeveloped areas in Kenya. He has served in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda. His oldest son Greg is assisting him in Kenya.

1967
Lloyd L. Rich, MD, has been in private internal medicine practice in Sacramento, Calif., since 1973. His patients know him as the "physician magician" because he incorporates the art of legerdemain with the practice of medicine. He and his wife Sharyn have three children and six grandchildren.

1969
Allan Abbott, MD, continues to move along at a record-breaking pace after setting an international bicycle speed record of 140.5 in 1973. He currently is a professor of family medicine and an associate dean for curriculum at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.

1975
Steven F. Isenberg, MD, recently edited two books: Managed Care, Outcomes and Quality: A Practical Guide and Profiting from Quality: Outcome Strategies for the Medical Practice. Dr. Isenberg is the founder and director of Project Solo, which has published seminal research in multi-site community-based outcome research. He also is president-elect of the Surgeons' Outcomes Research Cooperative in Otolaryngology based at Duke University and the co-director of the Physicians' Outcomes Initiative and Networking Technology Program based at Harvard. He is currently in an otolaryngology solo practice in Indianapolis.

1976
Mark W. McClure, MD, is a urologist in Raleigh, N.C. In January 1997, he established one of the first urology practices in the U.S. to offer both conventional and complementary medicine. He and his wife Maureen have two children.

1979
Gary L. Beck, MD, is a staff physician at a rehabilitation hospital in Evansville, Ind. He served as the past president of medical staff and past chairman of the family practice department at the St. Mary's Medical Center, also in Evansville. His son Erik, 28, is a zookeeper at Mesker Park Zoo.

Ken Bisson, MD, practices urgent care in Angola, Ind. He is a Libertarian Party activist and member of the Libertarian National Committee. As a representative of the party, Dr. Bisson challenged Mark Souder for his U.S. House seat in 1996. All four of his children will be in college in 2000.

1984
Cheryl Armstrong, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. Her focus is basic research in immunotherapy. Her son Noah is 12.

Robert A. Callon Jr., MD, is a gastroenterologist in a group practice of eight physicians at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. He chairs the hospital's Department of Gastroenterology. He also completed the 1999 500 Festival Mini Marathon in just over two hours

Scott Fenske, MD, and Lucinda Fenske, MD, are both in private practice in the metro Milwaukee area. Cindy has a solo practice in obstetrics/gynecology and Scott is part of United Internists, a 15-member general internist group. He is also the chief of staff at Vencor Hospital. Cindy and Scott have three children: Susan, 14, Erica, 9, and Heidi, 7.

1988
Kevin Ault, MD, is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Iowa. The same week his wife Teri made the special delivery of his second daughter, the National Institutes of Child Health delivered the news that he is the recipient of a three-year grant to continue his studies concerning how chlamydia trachomatis causes infertility in women. Dr. Ault and his wife have two daughters, newborn Sarah and Katie, age 3.

Michael S. Scheeringa, MD, is an assistant professor in the section of child and adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University School of Medicine. He won a five-year grant in 1999 from the National Institute of Mental Health to study post-traumatic stress disorder in preschool children.

1994
Daniel B. Reising, MD, became a father in March 1999. He and his wife Tina and daughter Holly Grace have relocated to Valparaiso, Ind., where he practices child psychiatry.

1995
Shannon Jones, MD, graduated in June 1999 from the general psychiatry training program at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences in Topeka, Kan. She plans to enter a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Menninger.

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