![]() Joseph W’28, Palm City, Fla., a retired attorney Nov. Gilbert Ed’27, L’30, Philadelphia, a retired attorney Aug. Naval Reserves during the Second World War, he earned the rank of lieutenant commander. He and his wife were instrumental in the opening of the Holley –Williams House museum in Lakeville, Conn. ![]() Platt in New York, Paul Cret in Philadelphia, and Cram & Ferguson in Boston Dec. Buterbaugh Ar’25, Salisbury, Conn., a retired architect who had worked for Charles A. She was past president of the American Association of University Women, and remained active in support of the Transylvania County (N.C.) Libraryĭr. In 1999, at age 101, he was recognized as America’s oldest worker, following a nationwide search by Experience Works, Inc.įrances Drew Sutherland Ed’23, Brevard, N.C., a former high-school teacher in Westfield, N.J. ![]() He saw Halley’s Comet twice-as a youth with his father in 1910 and again while doing research in New Zealand 76 years later. He was the founding editor of The Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science in 1971 and was working on the latest edition at the time of his death. Sunderman was the co-author of more than 300 scientific papers and numerous books on medicine, chamber music, and photography, along with an autobiography, A Time to Remember (1998), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He performed a violin duet with his son, a musician, at Carnegie Hall in 1998, and a violin solo at his alma mater, Gettysburg College, on his 100th birthday. In 1938, during his convalescence from pulmonary tuberculosis, he practiced the violin most summers thereafter, he would travel to Germany and Austria to perform on his Stradivarius with professional chamber musicians. And he was also responsible for the standardization of hemoglobin measurements throughout the world. Sunderman was the founder of the Association of Clinical Scientists. In 1951 he became professor of medicine and director of the metabolic research division at Jefferson Medical College (later Thomas Jefferson University Hospital), where he investigated new techniques to diagnose diseases of the thyroid, adrenal, and other endocrine organs. Anderson Hospital Cancer Center in Texas, and Emory University. He worked at the Cleveland Clinic, the M.D. He was also the department head of clinical pathology at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta. ![]() Sunderman assisted in the setup of the medical department for Brookhaven National Laboratories and served as a medical consultant at the Redstone Arsenal from 1947 to 1969. “I’d worked around the laboratory animals so much that I knew it would work.” Dr. He developed an antidote for nickel-carbonyl poisoning, using himself as a human test subject. There he investigated the effects of nickel carbonyl on workers exposed in the making of atomic weapons. During the Second World War he was medical director of explosive research at Carnegie Institute of Technology and Los Alamos Laboratories, parts of the Manhattan Project. He directed the chemistry division of the William Pepper Laboratory at Penn in the 1930s, developing methods for the measurement of blood cholesterol, glucose, and chloride. William Sunderman M’23 Gr’29, Philadelphia, professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine March 9.
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