DukeMed Alumni News
Fall 2007

Class Notes:
1940s

Herman F. Froeb, MD’47, has been retired from private practice since 2002 and has since been a guest lecturer on celebrity cruise ships. In 1980 he and a colleague published in the New England Journal of Medicine a paper on the effects of second-hand smoke on non-smokers in the workplace. It became the basis for the banning of smoking in restaurants and other public spaces in most states. He and his wife Helen have five grown children: Charles, T’89, Luke, Herman, Gordon, and Lorraine. They live in La Jolla, Calif.

Robert C. Welsh, MD’47, has invented a self test for glaucoma and plans to administer the test with the help of pastors at 13,000 African American churches across the country. He says millions of elderly blacks around the world needlessly suffer incurable blindness because they lack the opportunity to get tested for glaucoma early. Through this partnership he hopes to help prevent thousands of cases of glaucoma blindness each year. Welsh says his test is 95 percent accurate. He lives in Coral Gables, Fla.

William P. Wilson, T’43, MD’47, HS’49-’54, has closed his psychiatry office and is semi-retired after 62 years in medicine. He still is teaching at the Carolina Evangelical Divinity School in High Point, N.C., where he is a distinguished professor of counseling. He and Elizabeth—his wife of 57 years—have five children: Robert; Tammy, T’80; Karen; Benjamin, E’76; and William Jr., as well as 16 grandchildren. The couple lives in Durham.

Warren J. Collins, MD’48, DC, is still active in medicine, working part time as an OB-GYN at a family planning clinic for the Cleveland County Health Department in Shelby, N.C. He and his wife Lillian live in Shelby.

Louis G. Harris, MD’48, twice retired—first in 1985 and then again in 1996—spends his time taking courses at Yavapai College. A long-distance runner, he also competes in many road races, including six marathons. He says he finishes in the top three of his age group about 90 percent of the time. He and his wife Edith live in Prescott, Ariz. His grandson, an honor student, is a junior at the University of California, Riverside.

Aldrich H. Northup, MD’49, lost his wife of 56 years, Marie Theresa Caron Northup, to lung cancer last year. He lives in Pensacola, Fla., and has four children and four grandchildren.

Harold Warren Schnaper, MD’49, has moved into an apartment in a retirement community in Birmingham, Ala. Though semi-retired, he still supervises a general practice clinic twice a week. Otherwise, he stays busy by keeping up with his 10 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. He also enjoys reading medical journals.