Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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IN APPRECIATION One of the figures most deserving of the apprecia¬ tion of the entire Tufts Community is Dr. Clark Heath. From where he sits behind his desk at the infirmary dispensing good cheer and good health, Dr. Heath gets to know a little bit about almost everyone on campus. Unfortunately, however, few people know enough about this industrious, good-hearted gentleman. Dr. Heath did his undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard, and was associated with that institution’s Department of Hygiene from 1938 to 1955. He also served as secretary of the Harvard Medical Alumni Or¬ ganization from 1937 to 1946. In 1955, however, Dr. Heath moved his residency to Latin Way, and, in his own words, “Since that time I have been taking care of student health at Tufts, an excit¬ ing job and one I always wished for, working with young men and women.” Actually, this is a gross understate¬ ment of Dr. Heath’s activities as Director of Health Services at Tufts. He is closely associated with the Pre¬ medical Society, and takes time out to teach at least one morning a week at the Boston City Hospital, under the auspices of the Tufts Medical School. Of Dr. Heath’s four children—all of whom have been married since the family moved to Tufts—bo th sons are following in their father’s worthy footsteps. One is already a practicing doctor, and the other is studying veterinary medicine. We can only hope that they, in the performance of their chosen duties, will be as much of a credit to their respective communities as their father has been here at Tufts. 17