Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery - Dental Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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IN MEMORIAM DR. LEWIS RIDDEL STOWE Feb. 4, 1893 — Nov. 4, 1957 Professor of Dentistry D.D.S., F.A.C.D. Dr. Lewis Riddell Stowe was born in Rush City, Minne- sota. He attended school in Minneapolis and graduated from the University of Minn. Dental School in 1916. He volun- teered for the U. S. Army Dental Corps and served with our forces in France during World War I. Upon his return to civilian life, Dr. Stowe entered into private practice in Minneapolis. He established the first dental clinic for chifdren in the city ' s public school system, demon- strating his capacity for work and desire to serve the com- munity. In November. 1929. Dr. Stowe accepted an appointment to the clinical staff of the School of Dental and Oral Surgery and was assigned to the Division of Pedodontics. He rose to the position of full Professor and in 1948 was named Director of the Division of Stomatology. To add to his growing list of honors. Dr. Stowe became Director of the Hospital Dental Service in 1950 and consultant at the Bronx Veterans Ad- ministration Hospital in 1951, all while conducting a busy private practice in Riverdale for almost twenty years. Among his many credits were membership in Sigma Xi, Omicron Kappa Upsilon. the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, and as a Fellow of the American College of Dentists. In 1951 the Board of Regents of the University of Minne- sota presented Dr. Stowe with its Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of his work on the oral manifestations of childhood diseases. His tireless research, his devoted teach- ing, his many contributions to the dental and medical litera- ture, including his chapter on Oral Disease in Children which appeared in the Holt and Melulosh text on Pediatrics, attest to the deservedness of this award. But Lewis Riddell Stowe was much more than a practi- tioner, researcher, or teacher. He was a wonderful person — gentle, friendly to all, possessing a warm, infectious good humor. He was endeared and admired by all who knew him and his encouraging, sympathetic, and always helpful nature won the respect and the deep personal attachment of associ- ates and patients alike. He had an active, alert, ever-seeking mind possessed of the amazing ability to store its every experience, ready for instant recall. His capacity for absorbing and retaining the printed word contributed much to his conversational ability which was clear and descriptive, rich in content and diverse in scope. He was an active man, and he loved the great outdoors. Hunting and fishing were his favorite diversions, but he was also a licensed pilot and an avid reader of American History. No one can appreciate more deeply the loss of this keen mind and spirit than Dr. Stowe ' s widow, Felice, whom he married in 1926, as he was also a devoted family man, loving and loved. In the passing of Dr. Lewis Riddell Stowe, we have all lost a gentle and compassionate friend, a dedicated teacher and practitioner and a man of whom his family, his school and his profession can well be proud.

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