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CELEBRATION* WALTER A. GRIFFIN'S 100th BIRTHDAY On August 22, 1974 the churches of Sharon, Connecticut rang their bells one huindred times on the birthday of Dr. Walter Alden Griffin. He w-as elected to miembership in the "Climatological" at the 24th Annual Meeting in the New Willard Hotel, Waslhington, D.C. in MIay, 1907. At that time, inine of the original rrembers were still active. He presented a paper on 160 "Arrested Cases" of pulmonary tuberculosis treated between 1891 and 1906. In 1907, seventeen of twenty-seven papers presented wNere on tuberculosis and climatology. The name of the organization at that time was the "American Climatological Association". In the Council meeting, it was noted that early volumes of the Transactions were verv hard to obtain. Each new member received five or six of the volumes issued over the previous years. About 100 libraries received the Transactions free and a number were sent around the N-orld. Graduating from Harvard (Magna Cum Laude, 1897) and from Harvard Medical School (Cum Laude, 1900) he served his initerinship at the Boston City Hospital in his final year of mlledical school and arrived at Sharon in 1901. He was the only physician therie (a town of 2,000). Dr. Griffin started his practice with a horse and buggy and then bought a second hand automobile. Dr. Griffin is a general practitioner. Over tLe years he delivered most of the present day inhabitants of Sharon. Early in his career he was asked to work in the Sharon Sanitarium, of which he later became head. Dr. Griffin has made many personal contributions to the recreational facilities for the young in the Sharon area. In an interviewv (reported in the Boston Globe, September 14, 1974) he mentioned wvith particular pride a playground financed and built * By special order of the Board of Directors of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, meeting at 1T illiamsburg in October, 1974.
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under his direction in 1930 and the purchase of a tract of land in 1940 as a winter sliding area for children both of which he deeded to the Sharon Civic Foundation, which he had founded. Dr. Griffin still holds office hours. He is one of four MI.D. centenarians in the United States and possibly the only one doing practice. He greatly enjoyed our meeting in 1970 at I'onte Vedra. The "Climatological" wishes to extend its congratulations and good wishes to Dr. Griffin and hopes to see him in Bermuda in 1975. Y
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CELEBRATION* WALTER A. GRIFFIN'S 100th BIRTHDAY On August 22, 1974 the churches of Sharon, Connecticut rang their bells one huindred times on the birthday of Dr. Walter Alden Griffin. He w-as elected to miembership in the "Climatological" at the 24th Annual Meeting in the New Willard Hotel, Waslhington, D.C. in MIay, 1907. At that time, inine of the original rrembers were still active. He presented a paper on 160 "Arrested Cases" of pulmonary tuberculosis treated between 1891 and 1906. In 1907, seventeen of twenty-seven papers presented wNere on tuberculosis and climatology. The name of the organization at that time was the "American Climatological Association". In the Council meeting, it was noted that early volumes of the Transactions were verv hard to obtain. Each new member received five or six of the volumes issued over the previous years. About 100 libraries received the Transactions free and a number were sent around the N-orld. Graduating from Harvard (Magna Cum Laude, 1897) and from Harvard Medical School (Cum Laude, 1900) he served his initerinship at the Boston City Hospital in his final year of mlledical school and arrived at Sharon in 1901. He was the only physician therie (a town of 2,000). Dr. Griffin started his practice with a horse and buggy and then bought a second hand automobile. Dr. Griffin is a general practitioner. Over tLe years he delivered most of the present day inhabitants of Sharon. Early in his career he was asked to work in the Sharon Sanitarium, of which he later became head. Dr. Griffin has made many personal contributions to the recreational facilities for the young in the Sharon area. In an interviewv (reported in the Boston Globe, September 14, 1974) he mentioned wvith particular pride a playground financed and built * By special order of the Board of Directors of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, meeting at 1T illiamsburg in October, 1974.
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under his direction in 1930 and the purchase of a tract of land in 1940 as a winter sliding area for children both of which he deeded to the Sharon Civic Foundation, which he had founded. Dr. Griffin still holds office hours. He is one of four MI.D. centenarians in the United States and possibly the only one doing practice. He greatly enjoyed our meeting in 1970 at I'onte Vedra. The "Climatological" wishes to extend its congratulations and good wishes to Dr. Griffin and hopes to see him in Bermuda in 1975. Y
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