University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Caduceus Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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f 2 S X., xl' 4 it s ' ff 5 Born April 20, 1915, in Camden, Del., Marvin earned his bachelor of arts degree in chemistry at Morningside College in Sioux City, lowa, and his master of arts and doctorate degrees in zoology at the University of Wisconsin. His impressive career at UAMS began in 1942 when he joined the College of Medicine staff as an instructor of anatomy. Through the years with our institution, Marvin climbed the academic ranks, becoming a professor and the chairman of the Department of Anatomy by 1958. During one of the nine years he was chairman, he received the Fulbright Fellowship! and traveled to Nigeria, Africa, as a visiting professor at the University of Lagos Medical School. Marvin also served as the associ- ate dean of the UAMS College of Medicine from 1965 to 1977 and as the interim chairman ofthe Depart- ment of Anatomy from 1983 to 1984 After he became a professor emeritus in July 1985, the annual Dr. Horace N. Marvin Award for outstanding achievement in fresh- man medical school microscopic anatomy was established in his honor. His other activities while at UAMS included holding numerous campus committee appointmentsg writing andlor editing scientific papers and abstracts, medical anthologies and anatomy textbooks, and conducting Dr. Horace Marvin 1915 - 1992 5-X 1 ,Uni-ff Fifi research, most of which he received funding for through grants from such organizations as the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society and the Arkansas Heart Association. When asked to reflect on Marvin and his life and career, colleagues and friends had only the fondest of memories. John E. Pauly, Ph.D., the vice chancellor for academic affairs! sponsored research and a longtime friend, said, lf l were going to sum up Horace Marvin in one word, l would say 'integrity'-the last of the breed. lf you had a new Easter bonnet and wanted to know Dr. Marvin's opinion, you'd be very careful because if he didn't like it, he would tell you. fl also remember Dr. Marvin as a hunter and a fisherman-a great outdoorsman. Walking through the woods with him was a unique experience. He could identify every tree, every flower, every animal- exotic or common-and he would tell you as much as you wanted to know about them. Sharing Marvin's love of the outdoors was professor of anatomy Fiobert Burns, Ph.D., who recalled, i'On one of my hunting trips with him, he disappeared, and when I found him, he was lying down on his side in a rice field. He'd discovered some kind of purple insect that was walking around on some rice stubble. He collected a bunch of the insects and put them in his handkerchief and sent them to the entomology people at the university to find out what they were. Jerome K. Sherman, Ph.D., a professor of anatomy whom Marvin recruited for the department more than 33 years ago, said, Dr. Marvin was a true biologist, a naturalist and an ecologist. He had honesty, integrity and an insatiable desire to find truth in science. No biological entity or problem was too small to discuss at length and to utilize as a basis for research in the literature. That commitment to find the truth also led Marvin to look beyond stereotypes. In 1962, he recruited Shirley A. Gilmore, Ph.D.-now the Department of Anatomy chairman- who said, lf a student was working and trying to learn, it didn't matter whether the student was at the top or the bottom end of the class standing. lf that student needed help and wanted to discuss the material, he was there and willing to do it. He did not judge people by whether they were strong or weak intellectually or by gender or by skin color. Marvin is survived by his wife Margaret, four sons-Dr. Horace N, Marvin Jr., Dr. Peter Michael Marvin, Dr. Tad Howard Marvin and Timothy James Marvin, a daughter-Tamara Anne Alexanderg and 11 grandchil- dren. All who knew and loved this great man would probably agree with Pauly when he said, Now, Dr. Marvin is with God, and I must confess-l envy God the privilege of his company. Copy by Carohfn Fflggl

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