Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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E D I C AT I N James M. ParroH, M. D. o{ Kinston, N. C. iUe editors of The Howler d edicate lli.s voluviie as a s Inbuh ' to an emment and loyal son o{ our beloved Alma Mater

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JAJIES M. PAKROTT, M. D.

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Smmmm MimMmi Pmrw@%M. li P ' HE H( ) l,I ' ;iv (if 1014 is furtuiiatc in associatiiii; with itself tlu- nanu- HI of a gentleman wliose distinguished ahility has called him into the chief places of service in Xortli Carolina medicine, whose life illustrates tlie Ijest standards of Christian culture and exhihits a fine de oti(iM to the commcjn good, a Wake Forest man in trammt;, ideals, and unhroken loyalty — Dr. James M. Parrott, of Kinston, X. C. Dr. Parrott, the tiftli son of James M. and Elizalieth arton Parrott. was liorn lanuary 7. 1X74, near Kinston, X. C. . fter prehminary training in |iulilic and private schools, including Kin- ston College, he entered Wake Forest College m 1,S88. He left in 1891 without taking a degree. ' I ' he position which he now holds as trustee is sufficient proof of his loyalty to his alma mater, who is proud to numher him among her sons. He Continued his professional education at the Uni ' ersity of Maryland and at Tulane University, where he graduated in ISO.s, After this, he completed his medical education hy taking ]iost-graduate work in Xew York and aliroad. Little more than an enumeration of his honors is possible here. He was assistant surgeon in the United States .Army in Cuba immediately after the Spanish-. merican War. For six years he has heen a director of the State Hospital for the Insane at Raleigh. X. C. He has heen for more than seven vears medical director of the Xorth State Life Insurance Company. He was at one time president of the .Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Surgeons ' Associa- tion, and is now surgeon to the .Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk Southern Railroads. He is surgeon-in-chief ol the Memorial Hospital of Kinston. In the Xorth Carolina Aledical Societw he has held positions as annual orator, leader of dehate. chairman of the committee on surgery and anatomy, fourth vice- president, third ice-[iresident ; and he now holds the en iaiile ]iosition of presi- dent of that organization.