University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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MEDICAL BUIlDINGS DAVIDGE HALL Exte1'iorj DAVIDGE HALL I nteriar J I . H '. 7 7 ' THE DISPENSARY BUILDING

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UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HOUSE STAFF m w W n Medicine Front row: Drs. Bauer, Guy, Legerton. Back row: Drs. Doenges, Parks, Workman, Cook. Surgery Front row: Drs. Lynn, Ingram, Daue, Wal- ker. Bark row: Drs. Will, Massenburg, Ganey, Hawkins, Jennings. me 111;:; : ! iw Othetrir: Gynemlogy Front row; Drs. Stone, Levinson, Gayle. Bark row: Drs Covey, Graves, Lartz.

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'IN MEMORIAM DOCTOR THOMAS B. AYCOCK was born December 9, 1895. He was the fourth son and seventh child in a family of eight children. His father died when he was about two years old. He spent his youth on a farm with his widowed mother. He had his early schooling in a one-room, one-teacher school. At about the age of eight he entered the Pikeville High School where he continued until the Spring of 1916 about three years. The following year he entered the undergraduate department of the University of North Carolina where he remained until the Summer of 1917, when he returned home and worked on his mother's farm until he was drafted into World War I. He was assigned as a private to the 815t Division. He was sent overseas and rose to the rank of sergeant, and Was discharged in 1919 in time to enter again that year at the University of North Carolina. He won his B. S. degree at Chapel Hill and spent the following two years taking the first and second years in medicine at the University of North Carolina. These years were the session 1920-21 and 1921-22. The following year he entered the Junior medical class at the University of Mary- land where he graduated well up in his class in 1924. He was therefore 29 years old when he got his medical degree. ' The following year he was interne in the University Hospital. He was then trans- ferred to the City Hospitals and remained there as House Officer until July 1, 1929, spending his last year as Resident Surgeon, and was a very good one. He then joined the surgical staff of the University Hospital rising steadily from Assistant in Surgery to Professor of Clinical Surgery. His last years were somewhat handicapped by hyper- tension; although he continued staunchily at work until the ruptured surgical aneurysm at the base of his brain, rendered him unconscious. followed by death soon after. This cerebral accident occured while he was attending an evening surgical staff meeting at City Hospitals. Dr. Frank Lynn died in September 1938, and Dr. Aycock succeeded him as Assist- ant Chief of the surgical service until March 1, 1939 when he became Surgical Chief. He was faithful and efficient in this position. At the time of Dr. Lynn's death, he also becameone of the three Senior Surgeons in the University Hospital where he became Professor of Clinical Surgery. He had spent a number of years teaching Anatomy in Dr. Uhlenhuth's department which gave him an excellent knowledge of surgical anatomy. Gradually he became interested and proficient in Thoracic Surgery.- He was loyal, honest, straightforward and experienced in the fields of surgical practice and hospital behavior. His wife was an invalid for a considerable time and died about a year before Dr. Aycock's passing. He was 52 when he died and became another of a considerable group of University of Maryland teachers who died far too young. ARTHUR M. SHIPLEY, M. D.