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BUFFALO CENTER, IOWA THURSDAY, OCTA. Dulin, Former Buffalo• «Center Resident, HonoredAfter 50 Years of Service)The Daily Iowan of Iowa City is our source of this attractive picture of a former resident of Buffalo Center recently honored there after 50 years of healing service. Mrs. J. A. Dulin, born Taran Grothaus is looking at the badge given her by president Virgil Hancher of the University during the fiftieth reunion of the class of 1903.TMay we repeat the lowan’s story in it's completion and add our compliments to the many Dr. Dulin has already received.In 1892 a 13-year-old Iowa girl decided she would someday become a doctor. Seven years later she entered SUI’s first four-year program for M.D.’s.This girl, now Mrs. J. T Dulin (Taran Grothaus; M D. ’03) recollects, after 50 years of medical service to Iowa, how she was first received in the predominately male classrooms. IjTpots and sarcastic comments greeted' her*until she made, and A” on her first examination; then she was given “respect as an equal student”.Of the seven women registered in the medical school the finlt semester, only three remained by the second semester — but thesethree graduated. Mrs. Dulin and her late husband were graduated in the class of 1903 and were married on the same day.The couple practiced nearly 50 years in Sigourney, until the death of Dr. Dulin several years ago. They worked on an equal partnership basis. However, if Mrs. Dulin received a call on an especially stormy night, her 'husband would take the phone and inform the caller that his wife could not come out. He would go in her place then, “even of the patient didn’t like it too well,” recall Mrs. Dulin with a smile. Mrs. Dulin felt her most worth while experience as a doctor was the delivering of babies, often in farm homes with no medical facilities or assistance.Ntow 74 years old, Mrs. Dulin lives quietly at 823 Rider st. m Iowa City. She still reads widely in current medical literature. Her son, Dr. J. William Dulin, is an Iowa City surgeon. Two of*, her sisters are doctors, and another sister and two brothers-in-law are dentists. “Our father and mother,” Mrs. Dulin says, “always encouraged and aided us in our work.”
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Buffalo Center Tribune
Buffalo Center, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 22, 1953
Page 11
Full Page
Clipped by
Paul E.
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