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

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HERBERT LEWIS ECKERT On August 21, 1927, Lansdale, Pennsylvan- ia was introduced to Herb and Pennsylvania held his interests long enough to give him a high school education; his present home town is Takoma Park, Maryland. Herb’s hobbies are sailing and other water sports and he has been able to correlate his summer activities with “playing in the water and getting paid for it.” He has aided in operating swimming and life- saving departments at various boys camps during two vacations. When not externing at Maryland General Hospital, he is engaged in Nu Sigma Nu activities or “educating” young and tender student nurses. Herb’s primary interest in medicine is Pediatrics, for which he is taking a straight internship in Pediatrics at University Hospital. He will always be re- membered by those who knew him best as “Herb, the urologist, and watch out for the filiforms!” LAWRENCE DEEMS EGBERT, JR. General Surgery claims the interest of Larry who hails from Chevy Chase, Maryland. Born September 22, 1927, in Urbana, Illinois, he spent 1946-47 with the 12th Cavalry in Japan. Larry received his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University with an A.B. degree in Biology in 1948. During the past four busy years Larry served as secretary to Nu Sigma Nu, externed at Lutheran Hospital, Casualty Hospital in Washington and Relay Sanitarium. A high point in his career occurred when he posed as an anatomical mannikin for Dr. Brantigan in Surgical Anatomy. His heart was won by Dorothy Staples, whom he married in June 1950, and Larry is now the proud father of Louise Deems Egbert. He is just as proud of his bridge playing and just as adamant to the club convention. 27

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WILLIAM STANLEY DUNFORD, JR. Bill says “you can’t have hair and brains too; that’s why I’m so well endowed.” He longs for the day when, with degree in hand, he and Bernice can pack up Kristene, 6, and Nancy 3, and drive back to the Rockies where they hope to settle down. Born in Salt Lake City and educated at Brigham Young University, which, he claims, has a good basketball team, Bill came to Maryland with a B.S. degree in Zoology. He externed one summer at the Utah State Mental Hospital and spent another at Bethlehem Steel Company working in industrial medicine. Nineteen months of his three and one-half years of service with the Army Med- ical Corps were spent in General Patch’s hidden army at Fort Lewis, Washington. Aspirations such as Internal Medicine or General Surgery will test his tenacity and capacity. ROBERT CORL DOUGLASS, JR. “R.C.” — to be differentiated from “R.A.” — came to the University of Maryland from Ohio with a B.S. degree from the University of Toledo — which, he claims, has a good bas- ketball team. The war years found Bob on the German-Czech border doing top secret work as a special agent in Army Counter Intelligence Corps, and he still shows evidence of the C.I.C. training in his interrogation of patients for medical histories. Nu Sigma Nu, classical music, history of medicine, and Stan Kenton were his hobbies until this year when his time has been devoted to (1) Eleanor Seiter, whom he married in June 1951, and (2) co- editing this yearbook. “R.C.’s” professional aspirations for the moment are either General Practice or Internal Medicine in the Mid-West. 26

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CHARLES STANLEY ELLIOTT Stan is an old dyed-in-the-wool Navy man, having practiced the Navy way for over ten years as a hospital corpsman. Born in Butler- ville, Indiana, and now claiming Linton, In- diana, as his home town, he received his formal education at the University of Miami in Florida and Emory University in Georgia. His mature attitude in daily life won him the job of class treasurer for four years, during which time he has pleaded, coaxed, and cajoled enormous sums out of a seemingly poverty- stricken class. Stan is affiliated with Nu Sigma Nu and spends his spare time, otherwise, play- ing bridge, golfing, hunting, or fishing. He claims that his present special interest is “get- ting that sheepskin, its been a long wait.” Ultimately, he aspires to General Surgery, “if I live long enough.” LEE WILLIAM ELGIN, JR. Bill is an easy-going polyphagic Miami- an, who was born, reared and educated in Florida until the state ran out of institutions of learning, and then he came to Maryland. In his spare moments, he has been treasurer of Nu Sigma Nu, has delved into photography and wookwork, and has worked at Dade County Blood Bank in Miami. So far, Bill has escaped the clutches of the opposite sex which is evidenced by the fact that he plans to spend four or five years in hospital training after graduation. His primary interest in medicine is as yet undecided; but, perhaps he will follow in the foo tsteps of his father who is a urologist. At any rate, his one month with Dr. Toulson while interning in Surgery this year should serve as a factor in his ultimate decision. 28