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 DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008
Class Notes: 1940s
Horace M. Baker Jr., MD’44,
HS’44-’51, has been retired
since 1987. Among his nonmedical
recognitions over the
years are the Order of the Long
Leaf Pine from the governor
of North Carolina; a Cross of
Military Service; a National Medallion
and Friendship Award
from the Boys and Girls Club of
America; and a Masonic Veterans
Emblem. He and his wife
Dorothy live in a retirement
community in Southern Pines,
N.C. They have three children,
four grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren.
Adolphus W. Dunn, Jr., MD’45,
DC, of Saint Helena Island, S.C.,
is engaged to Mary Lou Geros.
His granddaughter Laura Dunn
graduated from Northwestern
University in May 2007.
Herman F. Froeb, MD’47, spent
two years as a guest speaker
for Celebrity Cruises. He spoke
on topics including longevity,
how to get a good night’s
sleep without pills, Medicare
Part D, and travel medicine.
He and his wife Helen live in
La Jolla, Calif., and have five
children and seven grandchildren.
One of their sons is
a wine maker in St. Helena,
Calif., another is a professor at
Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate
School of Management, and
two work in the financial
field. Their daughter works for
charitable organizations.
  J. William Hollingsworth,
MD’47, HS’51-’52, continues
to work on his utobiography.
He lives in Charlestown,
Eastern Caribbean West Indies,
with his wife Dorothy Reycroft
Hollingsworth, MD.
William P. Wilson, T’43,. He
had been caring for patients
in some role for 62 years, 35
of them at Duke as a resident
and faculty member. He says he
is grateful for the training he
received at Duke “under some
of the greatest teachers and
mentors a person could ever
have.” In his retirement he is
still busy writing and teaching
pastoral counseling at the
Carolina Evangelical Divinity
School in High Point where he
is a distinguished professor of
counseling. He lives in Durham.
Robert F. Lorenzen, MD’48,
HS’49-’51, retired from his
ophthalmology practice in 2000
and is enjoying retirement with
his wife Lucy in Paradise Valley,
Ariz. He volunteers at the eye
clinic he founded at the St.
Vincent de Paul Medical Facility
and in small towns and Indian
reservations. He also is writing
two books and painting.
John H. Kier, MD’49, and his
wife Christine celebrated their
65th wedding anniversary
in August 2007. They live in
Germantown, Tenn., and have
one son, John III, a CPA in
Roswell, Ga.
Gilbert A. Rannick, MD’49, and
his wife Elizabeth celebrated
their 62nd wedding anniversary
in July 2007. They live in
Johnson City, Tenn.
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