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MEMORIAL GIFTS To make a memorial gift to the college, please contact the Office of Medical Advancement at (312) 996-4470 or med-email@uic.edu. rose garden and the White Sox. Edsel K. Hudson, MD '55, Res '61, a longtime Hyde Park physi- cian and mentor, died January 13, 2010. Over the years he held posi- tions at various hospitals, including assistant vice president of ambula- tory care at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and assistant chairman, department of medicine, at Rush Medical College. Additional- ly, he served as director of planning of the Community Health Project as well as associate professor, internal medicine, at the University of Illinois Hospital. He was also medical di- rector, employee health services, at Provident Hospital. After retirement, he devoted his time as a mentor to students at Park Manor Elementary School. Roland W. Lippold, MD '41, of Sacramento, Calif., died Feb. 2, 2009. Lippold served in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps and the Naval Reserve. Following his service, Lippold worked in a private surgical practice in Chicago from 1950 to 1953. He also taught anatomy at the University of Illinois during those years. He relocated to Sacramento in 1954 and opened a private medi- cal/surgical practice. He was the chief medical officer for the North- ern Reception Center Clinic, Cali- fornia Youth Authority, from 1954 to 1968 and chief of medical services for the CYA from 1968 to 1979. He was a member of the AMA, CMA and Sacramento County medical and surgical societies. He retired in 1979. Lippold was a musician and played the piano, saxophone (in the University of Illinois marching band) and other instruments. He enjoyed travel, photography, tennis, hunting, fishing, bird watching and reading. Louise J.M. Riff Schaen, MD '64, Res '67, of Lincolnwood, died Dec. 2, 2009. Following her internship, residency and infectious diseases fellowship at the Univer- sity of Illinois College of Medicine, Schaen became a faculty member, attaining the rank of associate professor in 1977. Her research contributed to the effective use of gentamicin, an important antibiotic. She went on to direct the section of infectious diseases at Chicago Medical School (now the Rosalind Franklin School of Medicine), where she served as professor of medicine. Alvar Svanborg, MD, PhD, of Chicago, died July 15, 2009. A pioneering geriatrician in Sweden, he came to the University of Illinois at Chicago at age 65 to head the section of geriatric medicine. His main interest was the physiology of aging. He and his colleagues in Sweden established three cohorts of 70 year olds and followed them longitudinally to establish the physiologic changes accompany- ing aging. In the third cohort, he made interventions to ameliorate the negative impacts of aging. Svanborg's international reputa- tion found him in demand as a consultant on policies for the care of older persons. He is remem- bered for his broad experience, leadership and conceptualizations of aging and care of older persons. Herman Vergara, MD, Res '59, of Chicago and Naples, Fla., died March 19, 2010. He was born and raised in Sincelejo, Colombia, and attended Haviana University in Bogota, Colombia, where he received his medical degree prior to relocating to the United States in 1958. He interned at Illinois Masonic Hospital and completed his residency at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute. Vergara served as medical director of the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic at Mercy Hospital for over 30 years. He also operated a private practice and was an instructor at the Uni- versity of Illinois. He loved horses, bullfighting, history and art and had an insatiable interest in people of all cultures. ALUMNI '35 Martha P. Esten, MD '35, of Milwaukee, Wis., died July 19, 2009. Esten was born in Lysa, Czech Republic, and at the age of 2 immi- grated with her family to Chicago. She was married to classmate Forest C. Parker, MD '35, and both were practicing physicians in Danville for more than 30 years. Esten was the first woman president of the Vermilion County Medical Society and served the community in many ways. She enjoyed classical music, gardening and cooking and, after moving to Englewood, Fla., in 1973, became an avid golfer and taught water safety at local schools as a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. ' Pacific Campaign as a lieutenant colo- nel. He specialized in dermatology. 39 ' 41 Jerome S. Beigler, MD, Res '41, of Chicago, died Nov. 11, 2009. A teacher and psychoanalyst in Chicago for more than five decades, he served during World War II, where he helped soldiers cope with the rigors of war so they could remain at the front lines. In the process, he helped refine techniques for the treatment of "shell shock." After the war he turned to psychiatry and joined the staff of Michael Reese Hospital. In addition to the downtown practice he maintained, Beigler taught at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, while also maintaining ties to Michael Reese Hospital as chief of liaison psychiatry. He became an expert on patient-doctor confidentiality laws. As president of the Illinois Psychi- atric Society in the late 1970s, Beigler played an advocacy role on a number of issues involving his profession. Robert I. Cutts, MD '41, of Tucson, Max E. Klein, MD '39, of Northbrook, died July 25, 2009. A WWII veteran, Klein served in the Army's Ariz., died April 23, 2006. He was 91 years old. Lawrence O. Goodman, MD '41, of Marshalltown, Iowa, died Aug. 12, 2009. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force, earning five battle stars. In 1946, Goodman joined the Marshalltown Med- ical Clinic and retired in 1996 at age 79. He was active in the American Medical Association and served in the House of Delegates of the Iowa Medical Society. He was very active on the Evangelical Hospital medical staff and dedicated to teaching the cardiac arrhythmia course for ICU nurses. Robert Davison Lowrey, MD '41, died Jan. 27, 2010. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Force as a flight surgeon during World War II, he returned to Illi- nois where he began a general practice. In 1951, he set up practice in Glendale, Calif., and retired on his 80th birthday in 1998. Lowrey joined the staff of Behrens, which later became Verdugo Hills, Hospital in 1956. Over the years he served as the hospital's chief of staff, chairman of the department of medicine and chair of the board of trustees, as well as a member and chairman of the Verdugo Hills Health Services Board of Trustees. He was also on the part-time faculty at the University of Southern California from 1953 to 1960 and spent most of his time in the thyroid and endocrine clinics. William P. Marshall '37, MD '41, of Scottsdale, Ariz., died April 12, 2009. After serving as a captain in the Army Medical Corps in the Pacific Theater from 1943 to 1945, Marshall moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., to begin his medi- cal practice. In 1964 he co-founded Kalamazoo Anesthesiology, PC. The group became one of the first profes- sional medical corporations in the state of Michigan and today employs 33 anesthesiologists and more than 100 total staff. In 1977 Marshall moved to Scottsdale to work part time for the national Joint Commission on the Ac- creditation of Hospitals. Among other activities, he volunteered at the Arizona Library for the Blind. 48 | SPRING 2 010

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