Maurice Levinsky, '28
Bridgeport, Conn.

Charles J. Farinacci, '30
San Antonio, Texas
December 6, 1996
Dr. Farinacci served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1935 until he retired as a colonel in 1960. During World War II, he was chief public health officer with the British 8th Army and for his service he was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. He earned six Battle Stars and the American Bronze Star. He also received the Award of Cavalier Grand Official of the Knight's Order Sant Agata of the Republic of San Marino, for eradicating a typhoid epidemic during World War II. After his army retirement in San Antonio, Dr. Farinacci worked as a pathologist for the Nix Hospital Clinical Laboratory and was professor of pathology at UTHSC Medical School. He was preceded in death by a son, Charles, and is survived by his wife, Eva, two sons, one daughter and three grandchildren.

Abraham N. Kaplan, '32
Longwood, Fla.
November 5, 1996
Dr. Kaplan practiced family medicine in Brooklyn, N.Y., for 52 years. He leaves behind his wife, Gertrude Kaplan, son, M. Lawrence Kaplan, M.D.'80, daughter Bonnie M. Kaplan, Ph.D., and one granddaughter.

James Daniel Royster, '36
Benson, N.C.
August 30, 1996
Dr. Royster interned at the Johnston Willis Hospital in Richmond, Va., before entering general practice in Benson where he worked for 50 years. He was loved and respected by his patients and neighbors. Dr. Royster's hobbies included travel and fishing. He was preceded in death by his son, James Daniel, and his wife, Virginia Dean, and he is survived by his daughter, Catherine Royster Chrismon, and two grandsons.

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Henry W. Weiss, '37
Boca Raton, Fla.
October 4, 1996
Dr. Weiss was a World War II Army veteran who retired as a colonel. He was staff doctor at Ellenville Community Hospital (N.Y.) and was a founding partner of the Ellenville Medical Group. Dr. Weiss was a member of the Ulster County Medical Society and the N.Y. State Medical Society. He was an accomplished violinist and the father of two children: Diane and Stephen. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Angelowitz.

Anthony F. DiPaula Sr., '41
Lutherville, Md.
December 1, 1996
During World War II, Dr. DiPaula served in the 16th Medical Regiment of General Mark Clark's Fifth Army during the North African and Italian campaigns, and he was discharged at the end of the war with the rank of captain. He interned at St. Joseph's Medical Center and completed a residency at Women's Hospital of Maryland, before opening a practice in Baltimore. Dr. DiPaula was on the staffs of Maryland General Hospital, Bon Secours Hospital, and what are now Harbor Hospital Center and Mercy Hospital. He enjoyed fishing and gardening. Dr. DiPaula was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Schneller, and is survived by two children and four grandchildren.

Richard J. Cross, '46
Timonium, Md.
September 2, 1996
Dr. Cross completed his internship and residency at the University of Maryland Hospital. From 1950 to 1953, he served in the U.S. Air Force as flight surgeon and instructor of aviation medicine at Randolph Field in Texas. Dr. Cross established an ear, nose and throat practice in Dundalk, where he treated as many as 60,000 patients before retiring in June 1996. He was on the staffs of UMMS, the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, St. Joseph's Hospital and Maryland General Hospital. Dr. Cross is survived by his wife, Maria, and two children.

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George Winokur, '47
Iowa City, Iowa
October 12, 1996
Dr. Winokur was professor of psychiatry and director of residency education at Washington University in St. Louis from 1966 to 1971, at which time he became professor and head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Iowa. Dr. Winokur received many awards for his research, including the Gold Medal Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry in 1984, the Lifetime Research Award of the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association in 1990, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics in 1993. He was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1993. Dr. Winokur served on the editorial boards of several journals, published 400 articles in his research and wrote or edited 11 books. He was recognized nationally and internationally for his criteria-based research in the field of mood disorders and alcohol and substance abuse. Survivors include his wife, Betty, two sons, one daughter and two grandchildren.

Stanford A. Lavine, '54
Potomac, Md.
December 17, 1996
While in college at the University of Maryland, Dr. Lavine was quarterback of the Terrapins football team and still holds the school record for the longest touchdown pass completion (92 yards). After graduation from medical school, he served in the U.S. Air Force from 1956 to 1958, before returning to Washington, D.C., to complete residencies at Washington Hospital Center and Children's Hospital. He then spent four decades as the physician for Maryland's intercollegiate teams and was team physician for the Washington Bullets (1971 to 1981), the Washington Redskins (1976 to 1985), the Diplomats of the now-defunct North American Soccer League and the Capitals of the now-defunct American Basketball Association. He is survived by his wife, Marcia Weiss, three children and three grandchildren.

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Former Faculty

Dr. Robert Traub
Bethesda, Md.
December 21, 1996
Working in the rain forests of Asia for the U.S. Army, Dr. Traub sought ways to help soldiers avoid diseases borne by chiggers and other insects. In the 1950s, he commanded the Army's research laboratory in Kuala Lumpur. He intentionally contracted typhus through chigger bites to test an experimental cure, which was successful. His research led to the development of a theory of how each of the 2,200 species of fleas evolved, each along with its own animal or bird host, over 125 million years. In fleas, most of them about the size of a small grain of rice, Dr. Traub saw how continents had drifted apart, an idea that was later confirmed by geologists. He retired as a colonel in 1962 and joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he was professor of microbiology from 1962 to 1983. He was named honorary curator of fleas for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington upon his retirement from teaching at the School of Medicine. Dr. Traub is survived by his wife, Renee, one son, four grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

Memorial gifts may be made to: Medical Alumni Association of the University of Maryland, Inc., 522 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201-1627, or for more information simply call (410) 706-7454.

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Ollie Eylar, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, passed away on Saturday, February 1. As a tribute to Dr. Eylar, The Bulletin staff reprints the following profile on him, which appeared in the Fall 1994 issue.

"They've gone by too damn fast," said Ollie Eylar, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, referring to his 35 years at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. They must have, considering that his original plan was to stay four or five years and then "move out and up." So how did he come to miss his self-imposed deadline by thirty years or so?

One would have to note as a watershed event the wisdom imparted to the Ohio native by his junior year advisor at the University of Minnesota. He told Eylar, a chemistry major and math minor, that "math might not be what you want to do." Taking the hint, Eylar was introduced to microbiology. "It was so much fun, I just gobbled it up!"

So much so, in fact, that from writing lab experiments for microbiology courses, he moved on to graduate school and in 1959, completed his doctorate. He had a number of job offers, one of them here. "I was lucky enough to get a position here, he said. "I ended up in a department that emphasized teaching, both graduate students and medical students; there was research to do and committees to sit on; I was sort of thrown into the mixmaster."

Such Sturm and Drang only whetted his enthusiasm. "I remember one time some students stormed in, up in arms about final exams, wanting them to be more like what microbiology is in real life. We said, 'Hey, you're right!' and made changes."

Eylar credited his students with teaching him what you could and could not do as a teacher. "I loved the inter-relationship with students, the bantering. There were always two or three just as lippy as I was, and we could always really get things rolling. I tried to make students feel that this was the place to try anything, to make mistakes." Apparently, his rapport with students was a good one, for he developed a reputation as being, in his words, "demanding, but fair."

In retirement, Eylar enjoyed his house, his roses, his reading and his dogs -- a Rhodesian ridgeback, a miniature poodle and "big brown one."

And while he did retire in 1994, Eyler did not go out "cold turkey," he returned often for some guest lecturing.

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