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Ruth Kimmelstiel Freinkel, MD’52, has been retired as a professor of dermatology at Northwestern Medical School for 10 years. She has moved to Eugene, Ore., to be closer to her children and grandchildren. She enjoys taking classes for seniors at the local university and in the community. Her oldest daughter and her family, as well as her son, live in San Francisco. Her youngest daughter lives in Eugene. Freinkel’s husband Norbert died in 1989.

J. Raymond Chittum, MD’53, has been retired since 1977 and is now learning to play the harp and recorder. He still plays the mountain dulcimer with several groups and is learning to paint landscapes
and abstracts in oils and acrylics. His wife Colleen shares his love of music and painting. They walk two miles a day together and do strength training two days a week. They live in Rittman, Ohio.

Kenneth G. Gould, Jr., T’50, MD’54, DC-Century,
and his wife Joan Crowell Gould, WC’53, DC-Century, live in Houston, Texas. They recently took a trout fishing trip to Buckingham Lake, Montana. They have four children— Mary, Kenneth III, B’86, Anne, and Sarah.

John V. Verner, T’50, MD’54, HS’54-’59, DC, retired from medicine in 1987. He has served on the Florida Southern College Board for the past 10 years, and has a record of longtime involvement with the Salvation Army in Lakeland, Fla., including a past term as president. He and his wife Sally Prosser Verner, WC’51, DC, live in Plant City, Fla.

T. Rudolph Howell, MD’58, DC, retired from pediatric radiology in December 2006. He remains chairman of the Southern Medical Association Financial Service Board and chairman of the Virginia Aviation Foundation. Heand his wife Cheryl have four sons—Scott, MD’86, HS’86-’87, ’92-‘95; Brian; John; and Mark—and live in Chester, Va.

Floyd L. Wergeland, Jr., MD’58, DC, retired from ophthalmology in January 2006. He then became a trained docent at the Chula Vista Nature Center in Chula Vista, Calif. In July the center opened The Wergeland Family Discovery Center with live exhibits. He lives in Bonita, Calif.

Ruth H. Capp Bassett, WC’56, MD’59, has been retired from practicing psychiatry since 1990. She says she recently was “healed of rheumatoid arthritis, which affected my hands and took my energy away. If you’d like to know how, drop me a line.” (Contact her through the Alumni Directory). She has been married to Tom Bassett for 17 years. They have four children, seven grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren, and live in Tucson, Ariz.

Irwin M. Freundlich, MD’59, DC, a professor of radiology at the University
of Arizona in Tucson, was awarded the Medical School Teaching Award and the Resident Teaching Award in the Department of Radiology for 2006. He and his wife Therese live in Tucson.

Melvin Litch, Jr., MD’59, HS’59-’60, is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Medical Group, Inc., in Germantown, Tenn. His wife Deborah Way Litch is executive producer at Theatre Memphis—one of the largest and oldest community theatres in the U.S. They live in Germantown.

Alonzo H. Myers, Jr., T’55, MD’59, continues to be associate councilor for the Southern Medical Association and works 3.5 days per week in a multi-specialty group doing office orthopedics. He also plays golf twice a week. He and his wife Dorothea live in Roanoke, Va., and have four children, eight grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, and five step-great-grandchildren.

Frank B. Thompson, MD’59, retired from solo practice in 2000. He and his wife Joan have been married for 46 years. They have three children and six grandchildren and live in Pasadena, Calif.