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Keep your College and fellow alumni informed of pertinent events in your life by sending your news to Vet Report, U of I College of Veterinary Medicine, 2938 VMBSB, 2001 South Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802; fax:217/244-2988; email: editor@cvm.uiuc.edu.
ALUMNI LISTINGSDr. C. Bruce Louderback (’70), founder of the Mission Viejo Veterinary Hospital in Aurora, Colo., was appointed to a four-year term on the Colorado State Board of Veterinary Medicine last summer. Dr. Louderback has also served as mayor of Foxfield, Colo.
Dr. Rosemary LoGiudice (’81), owner of the Country Care Animal Hospital in Manhattan, Ill., has been chosen as president-elect of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association. Dr. LoGuidice has long been active in the ISVMA and its board, the Kankakee Valley VMA, and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Stephen B. Hooser (’82), PhD, Dipl. ABVT, recently received tenure at Purdue University’s School of Veterinary Medicine. He is now chief of the toxicology section in the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology.
Dr. Marian Prybil Rippy (’82) and her husband Randy announce the birth of their son Andrew Nathan, on October 13, 1999. Dr. Rippy is a manager and principal veterinary pathologist for Guidant Corporation in
Minnesota.
Dr. Robin Downing (’86), owner and director of the Windsor (Colo.) Veterinary Clinic, PC, received the Hill’s Animal Welfare and Humane Ethics Award at the American Animal Hospital Association’s 67th annual meeting in April. The award recognizes her outspoken advocacy of the bond between people and their pets. Dr. Downing writes a weekly newspaper column and is the author of Pets Living With Cancer: A Pet Owner’s Resource, a 2000 AAHA Press publication.
Dr. Cheryl S. Rosenfeld (’95) completed a PhD degree in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia in May. Her advisor was Dr. R. Michael Roberts, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Kathryn E. Cochran (’96) married William Duncan, a first lieutenant in the United States Army, on November 6. Classmates Jennifer Erdtmann Langan and George Langan participated in the wedding. Dr. Cochran is a small animal practitioner in Savannah, Ga.
IN MEMORIAMDr. Denzil E. Dees (’54), of Urbana, Ill., died on April 19. Dr. Dees taught in the College’s Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and for 24 years worked for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. A World War II veteran who landed at Omaha Beach, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Dr. Ray D. Hatch, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine from 1948 to 1977, died May 14 in Urbana, Ill. In 1937 Dr. Hatch earned a D.V.M. and master’s degree from Iowa State University, where he taught anatomy until 1941. He also taught briefly at Michigan State and Virginia Polytechnic Institute before coming to Illinois. At Illinois Dr. Hatch headed the ambulatory clinic and also served as acting head of the departments of clinical medicine and of anatomy and histology.
