University of Texas Health Science Center - IATRO Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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DEDICATION GC. Frank Webber, MD 6 October 1934 — 12 December 1985 C. Frank Webber, MD, earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas A M University in 1957 and a medical degree from UTMB-Galveston in 1960. He completed his residency in Family Practice at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, in 1962. Dr. Webber then entered the military and served as Flight Surgeon XVIII Airborne Corps, stationed at Fort Bragg, NC, from 1962 to 1964. In 1964, he and his family ares: medical education. returned to Texas, where he began private practice in Houston. He became a clinical associate professor in Family Practice at UTMSH in 1974, and the following year, he assumed the duties of Acting Chairman of | the Department of Family Practice. In 1977, he gave up his solo practice to become Professor and Chair- man of the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at UTMSH as well as Adjunct Pro- fessor of Family Practice at Baylor College of Medicine. He became Director of the Ambulatory Care pro- gram at UTMSH in 1980. In 1982, Dr. Webber became Assistant Dean for Community Affairs at UTMSH as well as a Consultant in Family Practice to the Department of Internal Medicine at the UT Cancer Center. He became Vice President for Health Affairs and Senior Executive Associate at UTMSH in 1985, and that July, he assumed the Deanship of the UT Medical School at Houston, a position which he held until his untimely death from a heart-related illness on 12 December 1985. In addition to his many academic responsibilities, Dean Webber was also Harris County Medical Society President in 1980, and he served on numerous phe in the Texas Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the emorial Hospital rt Rabid in Houston. Dean Webber was a dynamic individual with a distinct dedication to He is sorely missed by both students and faculty.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURES............183 | EVENTS..............33 SENIOR EVENTS....... 47 ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS, SUPPORT GROUPS... . 57 ADMINISTRATION AND DEPARTMENTS......65 CLASSES.............87 CLOSING............ 205 Paintings and statues are reproduced from Lyon’s and Petrucelli’s Medicine, An Illustrated History (Abrams, 1978) and Marti-lbanez’s The Epic of Medicine (Potter, 1962). Pictures for the Time Capsule were reproduced from Time, Newsweek, US World News Report, Houston Chronicle, Sports Illustrated, and Houston Post. The cartoons were reproduced from The Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, and New York Times. Brown clay Nayarit figures may represent sick person with attendant. | Contents 3

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A EULOGY TO DEAN WEBBER Thanks for listening To our words And directing them To their purpose. You were the best To find a way That all could share; And each could bear The truth In open conversation Where the chips would fall Without reproach To reveal The nature of the problem And its solution For the better of us all. But there is one word Left unsaid In our structured manly world, We loved you. Rest in peace, Your work is done, And ours has just begun. To bid your will, We commit to our being To pursue the course You have set for us. Farewell. Frank G. Moody, MD On behalf of the students at the UT Medical School, members of the student senate commemorate the memory of Dean Frank Webber by displaying a plaque in his honor. The students, pictured from left to right with Mrs. Frank Webber are Rosemary Buckle, Bill Davis, and Wesley Wylie. The plaque is now hanging in the Medical School lobby, a main gathering place for students. Dedication 5