Ralph Howard Zinn ’27
Bridgeport, W.Va.
October 10, 1996
Dr. Zinn completed a residency at Ohio Valley General Hospital in Wheeling. He practiced general medicine from 1928 until his retirement in 1963, and is survived by his wife, Grace Spitznogle, one daughter, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Charles Kimmel ’33
Bloomfield, N.J.
January 13, 1997
Dr. Kimmel interned at St. Peter’s Hospital in New Brunswick. He was a member of the medical staff at Mountainside Hospital and, during the Depression, worked in the hospital’s ear, nose and throat clinic. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a medical officer. With the rank of captain, he served two years overseas as squadron surgeon with the 8th Fighter Control Squadron in New Guinea, as well as Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines. Following his discharge in 1945, he resumed his medical practice and, in 1956, became senior assistant medical director of Blue Shield of New Jersey and medical advisor to the New Jersey Hospital Plan. He retired in 1981. Dr. Kimmel was a member of both the Essex County and the New Jersey medical societies. During his retirement, Dr. Kimmel enrolled in Bloomfield College, where he audited courses for several years. He is survived by his wife, Minna, three daughters, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Melvin R. Aungst ’35
Aberdeen, Md.
January 20, 1997
Dr. Aungst completed a one-year internship at Church Home Infirmary in Baltimore and worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he completed a surgery residency. From 1940 to 1942, he practiced at the Maryland House of Correction. In 1942, Dr. Aungst entered the Army’s 28th Division, which was a Pennsylvania National Guard unit, and served in the European theater. He was a member of the American College of Surgeons, the International College of Surgeons and the Maine Medical Association. Dr. Aungst also served two terms as president of the Aroostook County Medical Society. He is survived by his wife, Miriam, and several nieces and nephews.

Irving Klompus ’35
San Francisco, Calif.

Lawrence M. Tierney ’36
West Haven, Conn.
December 26, 1996
During his tenure in the Navy, Dr. Tierney served in the Pacific during World War II and was a member of the first medical team in Nagasaki, Japan, after the dropping of the atomic bomb. He retired from private practice in 1986, having served as West Haven’s medical examiner, town health officer and police surgeon. Dr. Tierney was the football team’s doctor at Notre Dame High School and was a recipient of the Knights of Honor at Notre Dame and the Man of the Year from West Haven Community House. He is survived by his wife, Winifred, two sons, three daughters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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G. Roger Myers ’40
San Diego, Calif.
January 27, 1997
Dr. Myers graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1936, before enrolling at the School of Medicine. In June 1940, he married Nell Fooks, enlisted into the Navy Medical Corps as a lieutenant and set out for the Philadelphia Naval Hospital for his internship. After retiring from the Navy as a commander in 1948, Dr. Myers carried on a family general practice in California and also served as chief of staff at Grossmont Hospital. He retired in 1980. He is remembered by his classmates as a gentle and kind man who was always a supporter of the School of Medicine. He is survived by his wife, three children and three grandchildren.

John A. Scholl ’41
Escondido, Calif.
January 14, 1997
Dr. Scholl interned at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh prior to his service in the Army Medical Corps with the 105th Station Hospital in North Africa during World War II. Following the war, he trained in general surgery and neurosurgery at Ohio State University in Columbus and served a fellowship in neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He practiced neurosurgery in the Boston area until 1974, when he moved to Escondido. He was a first-class aviation medical examiner for the Federal Aviation Association until March 1996, when he retired because of failing health. Dr. Scholl is survived by his wife, Dr. Mary Louise.

E. Andrew Zepp ’42
St. Peters, Mo.

Herbert L. Berry ’43D
McLean, Va.
January 20, 1997
Dr. Berry served an internship and residency at San Diego General Hospital and a one-year surgery fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a general surgeon and, after retiring, continued medical research on morbid obesity. Dr. Berry and his wife, Virginia, raised four children.

Paul G. Herold ’44
Baltimore, Md.
March 24, 1997
After graduation, Dr. Herold served two years as a captain in the Army Medical Corps. A general surgeon, he maintained a private practice in Baltimore for 35 years before retiring in the mid-1980s. He practiced at Church Hospital and Maryland General Hospital, where he had been assistant chief of staff in the 1940s. Dr. Herold often made house calls and used his knowledge of poetry, especially Shakespeare, to put patients at ease. He is survived by his wife, Mary Woodburn, three daughters and four grandchildren.

Carl H. Kennedy Jr. ’48
Pittsford, N.Y.
January 20, 1997
Dr. Kennedy trained at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia from 1948 to 1950, after which he served in the U.S. Navy with the Destroyer Fleet until 1953. Dr. Kennedy practiced obstetrics and gynecology at Frankford Hospital in Philadelphia until retiring in 1988. He was preceded in death by his wife, Doris Rush, and is survived by one son and one grandson.

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Nicholas Demmy ’50
Cleveland, Ohio
January 13, 1997

Julian Ward Reed ’52
W. Friendship, Md.

Harry Stephen Weeks Jr. ’53
Wheeling, W.Va.
January 7, 1997
Dr. Weeks served his internship at Mercy Hospital and his residency in anesthesiology at Ohio Valley General Hospital in Wheeling. He began his medical practice in Clarksburg in 1956 and moved to Wheeling in 1957, where he practiced at Ohio Valley Medical Center for nearly 40 years. Dr. Weeks also practiced at Wheeling Hospital and East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry. He was clinical professor of anesthesiology at West Virginia University School of Medicine. A national leader in the field of peer review, Dr. Weeks was instrumental in writing laws that govern quality oversight of the Medicare program in the early 1970s. Since 1975, he had served as president and medical director of the West Virginia Medical Institute, an organization that performs quality oversight for Medicare, Medicaid and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Weeks was active in several community organizations, including the American Red Cross and the Community Foundation of the Upper Ohio Valley. He was preceded in death by a son and is survived by his wife, Esther, one son, two daughters and two grandchildren.

Marvin A. Goldiner ’55
Pleasantville, N.Y.
December 10, 1996
Following a residency at Baltimore City Hospital, Dr. Goldiner performed endocrine research with Drs. J. Conn and S. Fajans in Ann Arbor, Mich. He traveled to London to continue his research with Dr. T. M. Chalmers at Middlesex Hospital. Dr. Goldiner was assistant chief of medicine at Goldwater Memorial Hospital in New York City from 1965 to 1967 and assistant director of medicine at Grasslands Hospital from 1967 to 1971. He was clinical director of medicine at Mount Vernon Hospital from 1971 to 1981, and continued to practice there until his death. Perhaps his most notable achievement was the way he confronted his terminal illness, remaining cheerful and courageous throughout the year following diagnosis. He continued to work and travel, never admitting to either pain or fear. He is survived by his wife, Sigrid.

Granger Gideon Sutton Jr. ’58
Lutherville, Md.
March 3, 1997
Dr. Sutton joined the Army as a first lieutenant medical intern and performed an internship at Brooke General Hospital at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. It was there that he met his future wife, Barbara, who was commissioned as a second lieutenant dietetic intern for the Army. They traveled to Hawaii where Dr. Sutton served as a preventive medicine officer at Fort Shafter. In 1961, they moved to Michigan, where Dr. Sutton served a neurological residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. He was an NIH fellow for two years in the electroencephalography laboratory at the University of Maryland Hospital and from 1966 to 1968 served as an instructor. He was assistant professor in neurology and assistant electroencephalographer from 1968 to 1976. Promoted to associate professor in 1976, Dr. Sutton also served as head of the Jerome K. Merlis Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology, two positions he maintained until his retirement in 1989. He is survived by his wife, two sons, two daughters and two grandchildren.

Carleton J. Lindgren ’63
Independence Mo.
April 9, 1997
Dr. Lindgren completed an internship at Broadlawns Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, and a residency in psychiatry at Cherokee State Hospital. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard and Reserves from 1957 to 1965. Dr. Lindgren practiced psychiatry in Independence for 25 years and in Lee’s Summit for the past three years. Previously, he served as medical director of Comprehensive Mental Health Services Inc., for 10 years. He was a member of Rotary International and a Paul Harris Fellow. Dr. Lindgren had been active in the Boy Scouts of America and served as an H. Roe Bartle Camp doctor for 15 years. Survivors include his wife, Alice, one son, one daughter and two grandchildren.

David L. Allender ’73
Timonium, Md.
February 10, 1997
Dr. Allender is survived by his mother, Esther, three brothers, four nephews and one niece.

Bruce P. Bollens ’82
Severna Park, Md.
December 24, 1996

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Former Faculty

Stephen R. Max, Ph.D.
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
April 10, 1997
At the time of his death, Dr. Max was professor of biological chemistry and neurology and director of research and technology development at Albert Einstein Medical Center. He earned both his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Rhode Island. He served two years in the Army at Walter Reed Medical Center and later taught at Howard University and worked at NIH in Bethesda, Md. He spent 22 years at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, holding faculty appointments in the departments of neurology, pediatrics, pathology and biochemistry. One of his most important and enduring legacies at Maryland was the creation of a combined M.D./Ph.D. program, whereby students receive combined medical and scientific training in order to investigate human disease from both basic science and clinical medicine perspectives. He directed the program for six years. In addition to teaching and research, he was acting vice president for research and dean of the graduate school at UM. Dr. Max left Maryland in 1992 to become dean of the graduate school and vice president for research at Hahnemann University, now known as Allegheny University of the Health Sciences. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Sohmer, M.D., and two children.

Taghi Modarressi, M.D.
Baltimore, Md.
April 23, 1997
Dr. Modarressi was the founder of the Center for Infant Study at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a pioneer in exploring the psychological makeup of infants. He was born in Tehran, Iran, where he earned his medical degree. He left Iran for the United States in 1959 and served an internship in Wichita, Kan., before taking a residency at Duke University. He received additional training at McGill University in Montreal. Dr. Modarressi joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1967, specializing in child development. In the late 1980s, he founded the Coldspring Family Center Therapeutic Nursery, which attempts to intervene as early as possible in the lives of children who have suffered emotionally scarring traumas. He retired last year. Dr. Modarressi is survived by two daughters.

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