Letters

Lewis “Bud” Rowland

Thank you so much for the wonderful article and spread you did on my father, Bud Rowland (Fall/Winter 2017 issue). It is really phenomenal to affirm, again and again, how well loved he was and what an impact he made. (I’m sure he would edit that sentence...) 

 – Joy Rosenthal

Virginia Apgar

I read with pleasure in P&S News that Rita Charon will direct the Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators (Fall/Winter 2017 issue). Your article includes important facts about Apgar’33, including that she was the first woman to be named a full professor at P&S [now VP&S]. She is arguably the best known VP&S graduate in the world. Every doctor and millions of patients have heard of the Apgar Score. But your Apgar bio does not mention her medical specialty: anesthesia.

– Allen I. Hyman MD FCCM Sc.D. (Hon Columbia)
Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology

Aura Severinghaus

I can echo Dr. Alfred Scherzer’s comments (Letter, Fall/Winter 2017 issue) about the willingness of Dean Aura Severinghaus to consider the applications of “outliers” for admission to VP&S. Having dropped premed as a college sophomore in order to pursue philosophy I made a late return to wanting medicine as a career. Despite my inadequate preparation, Dean Severinghaus must have regarded philosophy highly because he admitted me to the class of 1958.

– Lawrence W. Norton’58
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine