University of Kansas School of Medicine - Jayhawker MD Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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I959 Qaqhawkefl -Hwafld X S I 1 1958 MAX S. ALLEN Associated Professor of Medicine M. D. Kansas 1937 W. L. DR, LAWRENCE PETERS 71 ' Professor of . ,- l .ll ll Pharmacology 37 . 11 1,5 5 wg ' M,D. Western Reserve M., so 1950 1' 4 . A:' PresenTed Annually by The Senior A U Class of The School of Medicine To 1956 The Member of The FclculTy Who Has LAME? O-P521-EY Shown The GreclTesT DevoTion To His I . ssgflgafhoiggissor Primary DuTy os o Teocher of Med- lcol STuclenTs. M. D,Kansas 1932 Joint Award E221 ' 77511 1: Ili' g , Wfif liv in if CT Arif Ei? , ' rig: -' ' J s iiilf if ' V e il J 1953 fl' A A. iir MALON H. DELP Professor of Medicine KURT R' REISSMAN M,D, Kansas 1934 Associate Professor of Medicine M.D. Berlin 1936 GALEN MARTIN TICE Professor Radiology M. D, Kansas 1929 .var P3 Q . 1957 FRANK A, MANTZ, JR. Associated Clinical Professor of Pathology M. D Pennsylvania 1938 1955 G, O'NEILL PROUD Professor of Otorhinolaryngology M. D Washington 1939 f fi ' A: fm , asf I i 'Li 5 1952 WILLIAM P. WILLIAMSON Associate Professor of Surgery M,D, Arkansas 1938

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Dedication This school year marks the retirement of our beloved friend and teacher, Dr. Leroy A. Calkins, from the administrative duties of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Calkins' life as an obstetrition and gynecologist began at the University of Minnesota, where he received his M. D, degree in 1919 and his PhD. in 1921. During his graduate study under Dr. I. C. Litzenberg, he received inspiration to teach faithfully and try to improve the general level of obstetrics in the United States, His contact with Dr. Richard E. Scammon furnished a powerful stimulus to do good research work. These two great influences helped to explain many of the brilliant accomplishments that were to come in later years. Dr. Calkins remained in Minneapolis for a time, teaching and doing private practice. His next major step was to the University of Virginia, where he headed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. This furnished opportunity for first hand experience in the administration of a major department and a chance to try some of his ideas for the teaching of obstetrics and gynecology in his own department. When he came to the University of Kansas, 1929, he had formulated many of the original plans for the Department and the time had come for the full flowering of his talents, both in the field of teaching and research. Year by year he strength- ened and enlarged the department to form one of the great forces in the medical school at the present time. Obstetrics and gynecology in this area was at a low ebb when Dr. Calkins came to Kansas. Many of us remember through our childhood and later during our early professional years how grim the results were. As class after class of young doctors have been graduated from our school, dangerous and ill advised obstetrics and gynecology have become a matter of accident and no longer the normal result of ignorance. Many Students have complained under the exacting demands of obstetrical training at Kansas but almost all have been delighted to find the true excellence of their training later. Postgraduate training has been one of his major objectives. Many highly skilled specialists and teachers have passed to positions of trust and importance all over the world from this department and serve as a living monument to the excellence of Dr. Calkins' efforts. He did not stop at this point, however, because through special refresher courses and extension classes he has made it possible for doctors of the area to maintain the high quality of training after graduation. During his many years of intensive work in this field, he has published articles for the world literature with great reg- ularity. His monographs on normal and abnormal labor promise to be working tools for the practitioners for many years to come. Dr, Calkins has spoken before the society meetings regularly throughout his many years and always to the great profit of his audience. Many high offices in the great national societies of the specialty have been filled by Dr. Calkins. He has constantly stimulated his associates and students to continue research projects and to publish, papers. His influence in the societies has made publication of their articles easier and has often helped the writers to attain memberships not otherwise attainable. Dr. Calkins' clinical work has matched the high quality ofhis teaching. He has delivered and operated upon the wives of countless students and doctors. Many of us feel that his knowledge and skill have been a personal blessing at the critical moments ofour lives, to be carried in our hearts as a warm memory always. As a consultant, those of us who have known him best have found him gracious and wise, even in the wee small hours of the morning, when the weight of his own cares and responsibilities must have hung heavy about his shoulders. It is under these trying circumstances that the clear thinking and courageous character of the consultant make one able to stand up against all odds and combat adversity with a steady hand. For all of these many things we may count ourselves fortunate to have been associated with this man and may we ex- tend our most heart felt thanks and best wishes for a long and happy life of teaching, research and practice unburdened by the details of administration. R, A. Schwegler M,D, 1504 University Drive Lawrence, Kansas March 9, 1959 7 ,

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