DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

Class Notes: 1960s

Lawrence H. Parrott, MD’60, still enjoys horseback riding and recently rode in a foxhunting hunter trials in the pairs division. He and his wife Joy, BSN’60, live in Camden, S.C., and have five grandchildren.

Frederick C. Butler, Jr., MD’61, HS’61-’62, DC, recently accepted a position as a staff ophthalmologist at Togus VA
Medical Center in Maine, where he has responsibilities in the
eye clinic and resident training. He has eight grandchildren.

James J. LaPolla, Sr., T’56, MD’61, retired in August 2007
as director of the Division of Development and Behavioral
Pediatrics at Tod Children’s Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio.
He continues as associate professor of clinical pediatrics
at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and
Pharmacy (NEOUCOM). He is in his 35th consecutive year
of serving on his local school board. He and his wife Geneviene live in Warren, Ohio.

Robert H. Peter, T’57, MD’61, HS’61-’63, ’64-’65, DC, retired two years ago and
now farms full time. He and his wife of 46 years, Mary Ann, BSN’63, MSN’65, live in a
historic home in Hillsborough, N.C., and collect eighteenthand mid-nineteenth-century
paintings and antiques. They have five grandchildren.

Robert K. Yowell, MD’61, HS’64-’69, DC, retired on Dec. 31, 2006 as assistant clinical professor in the Duke Department of OB-GYN. He and his wife Barbara, N’62 live in Durham. They have three grown children—Charles, T’92, MD’00, HS’00-’06; Robert, T’88; and Sally, T’90.

David I. Kingsley, MD’62, DC, and his wife Elaine recently celebrated their 50th anniversary. He has been retired from practice since 2003. He is serving as president of Healthcare Quality Strategies, Inc. of New Jersey. He and Elaine have three children, Jared, T’90; Allison; and Jonathan, and five grandchildren. They live in Bloomingdale, N.J.

Peter O. Kohler, MD’63, HS’63-’64, DC, retired in September 2006 as president of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, but is still staying active after his move to Fayetteville, Ark. He is working to establish a satellite campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in northwest Arkansas. He and his wife Judy, N’61, have four children and eight grandchildren.

Angus M. McBryde, Jr., MD’63, HS’67-’71, practices orthopedics full time at Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Ala., and is director of sports medicine/ ankle and foot fellowships. He is a team doctor for athletes at the University of Alabama and Auburn University and also cares for professional athletes and “weekend warriors.” He and his wife Kay live in Birmingham.

C. Christopher Bremer, MD’64, retired since 2004, recently spent 10 days in the
Republic of Moldova, which is between the countries of Romania and Ukraine. He
was a visiting professor at the Moldova State Medical University. He is shown with
the directors of the medical library at the medical school, to which he gave some books. Bremer is a former physician with East Carolina University School of medicine. He lives in Greenville, N.C.

John H. Hall, MD’64, has been retired since 2002. He and his wife Jane celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary earlier this year, as well as his mother’s 100th birthday in August. They have three grown children and live in Greensboro, N.C.

Mary R. Andriola, MD’65, HS’65-’66, of Setauket, N.Y., was named one of New York
Magazine’s best doctors for 2007. She is a professor of neurology and pediatrics and
chief of the divisions of child neurology and clinical neurophysiology at State University
of New York at Stony Brook.

Leona B. Ayers, WC’62, MD’67, traveled to India and East Africa as part of the National Cancer Institute’s AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource. She is currently professor of pathology at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She lives in Dublin, Ohio, and has two sons and three grandchildren.

Gerald L. Brown,T’63, MD’67, HS’68-’72, has retired twice and says he will retire a third time “sometime.” In 2006 he retired form the University of Virginia Department of
Psychiatry where he now has emeritus status. In 1995 he retired from the NIH U.S. Public Health Service where he was clinical director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Intramural Research Program. He continues working at the VA Clinic in Harrisonburg, Va. He is married to Sima Peyman Brown and has three children ages 5-10. He was formerly married to Margaret Stadler Brown with whom he
has four adult children, including Kristine, T’97. He lives in Free Union, Va.

Richard W. Kesler, MD’67, DC, emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia Health System, now works for a non-medical company in Hong Kong. He alternates his time between his home in Milddleburg, Va., and Hong Kong.

Lois T. Flaherty, MD’68, and her husband John T. Flaherty, MD’67, are planning to go on their first Duke Alumni Association trip to Turkey. They are both avid sailors and recently acquired a new sailboat. Lois is the editor of Adolescent Psychiatry, and John works part time as a consultant for Shire Pharmaceuticals. In 2006 they moved back to Philadelphia, Pa., to retire and be near their children and grandchildren.Their son Keith is an assistant professor of oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Son John lives in Baltimore, Md., and works in construction, and son Mark, B’95, a marketing director, lives in Metuchen, N.J., with his wife.

Robert L. Goldenberg, MD’68, a professor of OB-GYN at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham (UAB), was appointed professor emeritus by the University of Alabama
Board of Trustees. Since joining the faculty in 1976, he has held a number of positions,
including director of the UAB Center for Women’s Reproductive Health and chairman of the UAB Department of OB-GYN. He lives in Birmingham.

David M. Goodner, T’64, MD’68, retired as a clinical professor of OB-GYN at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in December 2007. He and his wife Susan, WC’64, have two grandchildren.

Forney Hutchinson III, MD’68, DC, of Charlotte, N.C., is an oral examiner for the orthopedic hand specialty certification boards and a contributing editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma and for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. He recently
married Valerie Fekete. He has two daughters, Karen, who was recently married, and Ellen.

Ted R. Kunstling, T’65, MD’68, DC, a physician with Raleigh Pulmonary and Allergy Consultants, plans to retire from full-time clinical practice and become chief medical officer of Duke Raleigh Hospital on Jan. 1, 2008. His wife Frances, WC’65, has retired from her position as a marketing specialist for the historical publication section of
the N.C. Library and Archives. They live in Raleigh, N.C.

James W. Plonk, T’64, MD’68, DC, retired in March as a physician-endocrinologist with Charlotte Medical Clinic in Charlotte, N.C. He and his wife Barbara have two children, Timothy T’96; and Heather, T’01, G’04, and live in Charlotte.

Geoffrey K. Sherwood, MD’68, the chief of hematology and oncology at Faulkner Hospital in Boston, was appointed in June 2006 as medical director of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center at Faulkner Hospital. This is the first joint venture between the Dana Farber Cancer institute and a community hospital. He and his wife Dorothea live in Waban, Mass.

Edwin B. Cooper, Jr., MD’66, HS’74-’75, gave a lecture titled“Right Median Nerve Stimulation for Coma Treatment” at the international Vegetative and Minimally Conscious State Symposium at the University of Cambridge in England on September 27. The project grew out of a Department of Biomedical Engineering research project when his oldest son Branan, T’88, studied under Dr. James McElhaney, the long-time chair of Biomedical Engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. Cooper’s co-authors were his middle son Bryan Cooper, MD, a neurologist in Greenville, N.C., and Gao Guoyi, a neurosurgeon from Shanghai, China. Cooper and his wife Mary Bryan, WC’64, live in Kinston, N.C. Their youngest son Patrick, T’98, recently received his PhD in British Literature at UNC.

Richard H. Dixon, MD’69, has retired from his oncology practice after 30 years. He now has administrative duties with Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pa., is associate director of the Penn State Cancer Institute, and is clinical professor of medicine for the Penn State University School of Medicine. He and his wife Nancy live in Bellefonte, Pa.

Melvin L. Elson, MD’69, HS’71-’73, DC, the president and CEO of Global Cosmeceutical Innovations, LLC., is a board member of the American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine and has a patented formula for the treatment of cellulite. He and his wife Betty have four children and live in Burns, Tenn.