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Arthur Alexander 1894-1978
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.
The
Hobbs,
specialty
he entered
After
at the
in 1 947
...
from
Chief
this
turn
at the
he began
in Ogdensburg,
to become
.
in radiology
of training
Hospital
.
benefited
school
3 years
Hepburn
burg
.
of radiology
graduate
sylvania.
.
of events
University
his career
New
York.
of Radiology
when
of Pennin radiology
He left
at Deaconess
OgdensHospital,
Evansville, Indiana. During his tenure he was instrumental in raising the specialty of radiology to a new plateau. The two room department he inherited was rapidly expanded and he formed the first nuclear medicine facility in the state of Indiana. He was active in organized medicine as
member
of
the
Radiological
Society
of
North
American Roentgen Ray Society, and the Indiana He was also a fellow in the American Society as
served
counselor writer
and
president
of
the
Indiana
Roentgen
to the
American
College
made
numerous
contributions
America,
the
Roentgen Society. of Radiology. He Society
of Radiology.
and
He was
to the
radiology
as
a
a prolific literature.
He is survived by his wife, Stella; two sons, Arthur A. Ill of Evansville and Richard of Mobile, Alabama; three stepsons, Or. Benjamin Smith of St. Louis, Rev. William Smith of Rutheven, Iowa, and
Or.
George
E. Smith
of Tampa,
Florida;
21
grandchildren
and
six great-grandchildren. Robert Evansville,
Albert Lanham 1907-1978 Dr.
Albert
The distinguished career of Dr. Arthur A. Hobbs, Jr. ended with his death on December 20, 1 978 at Evansville, Indiana after a 2 year struggle with carcinoma of the lung. He was born and raised
Birmingham, nosis and
in Kansas
Alabama
City,
Missouri.
He
received
his
premedical
education
at
tucky
August
Or. Allen He received
received
St.
further
training
at the
Army
Medical
School
and
the
Army
School of Aviation Medicine. His army career was curtailed in 1935 when he was medically retired with the diagnosis of myocarditis.
in
of Winchester,
Ken-
1 3, 1978.
Carolina,
Carolina
Luke’s the
radiologist
was born in Spartanburg, his premedical training
South
officer
retired
1 1 , 1 978
August
the University of Missouri and medical education at Tulane Univeristy, where he was graduated in 1 91 9. After completion of his internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, he entered the army. He was determined to spend his medical career in the army and
South
Allen,
Allen,
at the University of Alabama Hospital, Alabama. Death followed complications of aortic stecoronary artery disease. He was buried in Florence,
died
burg,
Lanham
E. Beck IN 47747
graduated
in Charleston
Hospital,
for the State Royal
and
Army
in
Medical
from
1 933.
Jacksonville, of North
South Carolina May 6, 1907. at Wofford College, SpartanHe
Florida.
Carolina
Corps
before
the
Medical
served He
his
was
volunteering
of Great
Britain.
College internship
a public
of at
health
for service
He pursued
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August
1979
further study at the University of Liverpool in England and was subsequently stationed in India. He was named a fellow in the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. When the United States entered
World
China
until
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After
‘I
became North
Wan
II he transferred
discharge
discharge,
to the
U.S.
Army
and
Or.
Allen
chose
to specialize
in radiology.
a resident at Duke University Medical Center, Carolina, and later attended the postgraduate
Medicine
at the University
of Pennsylvania
of the Radiology He became
Class in 1 950-1 951. a diplomate of the American
1 952.
a member
He was
served
in
in 1946.
of the
American
where
He
Durham, School of
he was president
Board College
of Radiology
in
of Radiology,
the
Radiological Society of North America, the American Roentgen Ray Society, American Radium Society, Southern Medical Society, the American Medical Association, medical societies of North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Kentucky Chapter American College of Radiology, and He practiced
Clank County Medical Society. radiology in the Huntington, West
Virginia-Ashland,
Kentucky area until 1 963 when he moved to Winchester, Kentucky, where he practiced in the Central Kentucky area and continued serve
as radiologist
for
the
Louisa
General
Hospital
until
retiring
to in
1975.
Surviving Rev.
Marion
are his wife, C.
Allen,
Julia
Lawrence,
Winn
Allen
Kansas
South Carolina; and sisters, Josephine Carolina and Jessie Allen, Silver Springs,
of Winchester; and
Louis
brothers, Allen,
Green,
Allen, Greenville, South Maryland. R. Moore Dodnill Welch, WV 24801