DukeMed Alumni News
Fall 2007

Class Notes:
1960s

Phil H. Pearce, MD’60, HS’60, ’64-’67, and his wife Ann recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at Hilton Head, S.C. with their three children, Scott, Philip Jr., and Lisa, their children’s spouses, and seven grandchildren.

Richard L. Reece, T’56, MD’60, has retired as a pathologist but still works full time as editor-in-chief of Physician Practice Options, author of Innovation-Driven Health Care: 34 Key Concepts for Innovation (Jones and Bartlett 2007), and frequent contributor to Healthleadersmedia.com. He also is creator of his own daily blog (www.medinnovationblog.blogspot.com). He lives in Old Saybrook, Conn., with his wife Loretta, a former Massachusetts General nurse, and Paris, their French bulldog. His son Spencer is a nationally known poet and aspiring Episcopalian priest. His other son Carter lives in New York City.

C. Thomas Caskey, MD’62, HS’63-’65, DC, has been named director and chief executive officer of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Disease (IMM) after serving as director- and CEO-elect for the past 18 months. The IMM is part of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Caskey’s work contributed to the Human Genome Project at Baylor College of Medicine, and he has discovered 12 genes causally related to human disease. He and his wife Peggy, WC’61, DC, live in Austin, Texas. They have two grown children, Caroline, T’88, and Clifton.

Raymond M. Farmer, MD’62, a retired OB-GYN, and his wife Betty are now living in an ACTS retirement-life community, Lanier Village Estates, in Gainesville, Ga. Their first great-grandchild, Adah Ruth Brooke, was born on July 5 at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

J. Thomas Foster, MD’62, DC, retired in 2005 from Graystone Ophthalmology Associates in Hickory, N.C. He now spends time doing medical mission work in Zambia, South Africa and was planning a trip there in September. When back home in Hickory he enjoys fly fishing for trout. He and his wife Sandra have three children and six grandchildren.

Emile Louis Gebel, Sr., T’58, MD’62, HS’62-’66, DC, along with several of his family members, works for Shagreen Nursery & Arboretum in Shelby, N.C. Shagreen is the largest vendor at Stowe Botanical Garden on vendor sales days. They also custom grow pansies and violas.

Robert N. Grant, T’59, MD’62, DC, is a general, vascular, and thoracic surgeon and director of a hyperbaric medicine and wound care center in San Angelo, Texas, where he lives with his wife Denise.

Leslie C. Norins, MD’62, DC, has produced the monthly newsletter Technology Transfer Tactics, which he says will help medical centers or universities with the process of “moving discoveries from the professor’s lab bench and notebook out into the real world of corporations and venture capital so they can be licensed and turned into real, mass-produced products that can benefit patients.” Information can be found at www.technologytransfertactics.com. He and his wife Rainey live in Naples, Fla.

Norman B. Ratliff, Jr., T’59, MD’62, HS’62-’63, ’65-’69, and his wife Duane retired last year and moved to Montrose, Colo., to be near their daughter. Since moving they have enjoyed hiking and walking every day. Most recently they completed a horseback camping trip in the mountains with their oldest son and two grandchildren. Together they have three children (two are teachers and one is a cardiologist) and three grandchildren.

James R. Urbaniak, MD’62, HS’62-’69, DC, the Virginia Flowers Baker Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Duke, continues to practice “although at a lesser pace.” In March he was elected president of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, an organization spanning 51 countries with more than 9,000 members. The organization also honored him for his life-long contributions to hand surgery. He and his wife Martha, N’67, live in Durham.

William B. Waddell, MD’62, HS’62-’63, ’64, DC-Century, has been retired for seven years now. Ten years ago he and his wife Emily moved to Bald Head Island, N.C., where he says they have a house on “a tidal creek and marsh with ever-changing scenery and wildlife.” He spends his time singing with a community chorus, reading, writing, building boats, volunteering, and walking the beach with their Great Dane, Captain Jack. He says Emily stays busy conducting coding and compliance seminars for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Wade S. Weems, T’58, MD’62, a retired assistant clinical professor at Asheville VA Medical Center in Asheville, N.C., reports that his wife Patricia passed away last September. He has three daughters, Meghan, an epidemiologist in Atlanta; Courtney, a medical student at East Carolina University; and Whitney, a high school senior. He lives in Linville, N.C.

Tolbert S. Wilkinson, MD’62, HS’62-’64, says his tattoo removal program in San Antonio, Tex., has expanded across Texas and into other states, including North Carolina. He is looking for other doctors to start similar programs. He has pioneered a low-cost tattoo removal protocol to help gang members and others looking to remove unwanted tattoos. Also, his textbook, Atlas of Liposuction, has been published in Chinese. His wife Suzanne is reopening their bed and breakfast at their ranch. They have four children—Scott, PhD; Noel; Theresa; and Pricilla.

Everette James, Jr., MD’63, and his wife Nancy Farmer recently donated 28 paintings valued at more than $82,000 to Greensboro College in Greensboro, N.C., creating the Farmer-James Collection of 20th Century American Art. Duke University also has been the recipient of their art collections. The couple lives in Chapel Hill.

Doyle G. Graham, MD’66, PhD’71, DC-Century, has accepted a three-year commitment to serve as a visiting professor at the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School. He will serve as director of the Body and Disease course (pathology, pharmacology, microbiology, and immunology), which will be offered in the spring of the first year.

Emanuel Newmark, MD’66, DC-Century, received the Shaler Richardson, MD, Service to Medicine Award by the Florida Society of Ophthalmology in June. The award is given annually to the Florida ophthalmologist who has made the greatest personal contribution to quality patient care by coordinating, participating, collaborating, and integrating ophthalmology into the medical profession on a local, state, or national level. Newmark lives in Atlantis, Fla.

David G. Allen, MD’67, HS’67-’69, DC, practices at Pinehurst Medical Clinic, Inc., in Pinehurst, N.C., where he lives with his wife Kathleen, MSN’83, R’96, DC. His son Tom is the owner and manager of a pet center in Denver, Colo. Daughter Jen lives with her mother, Pamela, in Reidsville, N.C., and dabbles with computers and horses.

Paul N. Chervin, MD’67, DC, is an instructor in neurology at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Neurology at Winchester Hospital. He divides his practice time between a private practicein Massachusetts and a rural medical center in Vermont. He lives in Warren, Vt.

John T. Flaherty, MD’67, retired last year from a small biotech company in Cambridge, Mass., where he managed clinical research. Since then he and wife Lois, MD’68, have moved back to Philadelphia, Pa., where he now works as a consultant for Shire Pharmaceuticals LLD. He and Lois bought a new sailboat and enjoy sailing in the Chesapeake Bay. They also enjoy spending time with their two grandchildren and skiing in Vail, Colo., where they own a condo. They have three sons. Keith is on the oncology faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. John lives in Baltimore. Mark, B’95, lives in Metuchen, N.J., where he works as a marketing manager for Virgin Mobile.

J. William Futrell, T’63, MD’67, a plastic surgeon at Magee Women’s Hospital at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named president of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. He has co-founded several companies including Stem Source, Inc.; Human Analytics; Advanced Vital Services; PluroGen, Inc. He and his wife Anna, T’65, live in Pittsburgh.

Harry A. Gallis, MD’67, HS’67-’68, is medical director of the Charlotte Area Health Education Center and specializes in infectious diseases. He recently completed two years as president and eight years on the board of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education. He currently serves on the boards of The Arts and Science Council of Charlotte; The American Orchid Society; and chair of the education committees for both the North Carolina Medical Society and the Infectious Disease Society of America. He and his wife Sue have two children, Alex, a chef at Magnolia Grill in Durham, and Sarah, who recently completed a program in equine technology and is pursuing a career in the horse industry. They live in Cornelius, N.C.

M. Eugene Kendall, T’62, MD’67, DC, a retired cardiologist, and his wife Eliza Kennedy Kendall, N’66, are splitting their time between Scottsdale, Ariz., in winter and Hendersonville, N.C., in the summer. He says he misses the patient contact of being in practice but does not miss “the nightmares of insurance companies, hospital administrators, and federal programs.”

Robert N. Marshall, Jr., MD’67, HS’67-’70, the director of pediatric endocrinology at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn., says he’s becoming“addicted to digital photography, gardening, and travel.” He has three children, Robert, an anesthesiologist in Raleigh; Karen, who works for an educational software company in Chapel Hill; and Allen, who is in his third year of an ear, nose, and throat residency at UNC-Chapel Hill. He and his wife Margaret live in Chattanooga.

Jesse D. Samuels, MD’67, is a medical director for the managed care organization Aetna and studying for his sixth family practice board recertification. He and his wife Susan live in West Hartford, Conn., and are enjoying their four grandchildren who live nearby. They also enjoy cycling in Connecticut and Berkshire County, Mass. He says he plans to retire in three to five years.

Robin T. Vollmer, T’63, MD’67, HS’72-’73, DC, is practicing surgical pathology, dermatopathology and cytopathology mainly at the Durham VA Hospital. He teaches residents and physician’s assistant students and publishes an occasional paper. When not working he enjoys swimming, kayaking, watching Duke women’s basketball, and playing the trumpet. He and his wife Pam, A’78, have been married for 15 years and have three daughters, Kirsten, Malin, and Christina. They live in Durham.

Norman W. Wetterau, MD’67, recently led the N.Y. State Academy of Family Medicine to endorse a one payer system. He is currently helping the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) develop a primary course on methadone and another course on narcotics for chronic pain. He also is on the advisory panel for a White House conference on medical education in addiction medicine and is an American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) liaison to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). He practices family medicine in rural upstate New York, where he treats about 70 narcotic addicts with buprenorphine. He and his wife Nancy live in Dansville, N.Y. Their son Greg is a water engineer in southern California, and their daughter Kristina is a social worker in Chicago.