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Dr. Richard S. Wilbur, assis tant secretary of defense, (health and environment) visited the U.S. Air Force School of Health Care Sciences here Thursday morning. He was accompanied by Lt. Gen. Alonzo A. Towner, surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force, and five others from the surgeon general’s office. These were Brig. Gen. Gerrit Hekhuis, director of professional ser vices; Colonels Benjamin Baker, plans and management division, Willian Bines, William E. Overacker, aerospace medicine division, and Cliff Raiser, spe cial assistant for information. Dr. Wilburn is making an Air Force Medical Service orienta tion visit. In addition to Shep pard, the group is visiting Offutt AFB, Nebr., Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Cole, Kelly AFB, Tex , Lackland AFB, Tex., and Brooks AFB, Tex. Dr. Wilbur is on leave pre sently from his position as deputy executive vice president, American Medical Association, Chicago Ill. He is a specialist in internal medicine. He practic ed medicine at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic, Palo Alto, Calif., from 1952 until he moved to Chicago, Ill. in 1969 for the position with the American Medical Association. He also was assistant clinical professor of Medicine at Stanford Univer sity. He also served as a United States Navy physician from 1947 to 1949. Dr. Wilbur’s grandfather, Ray Lyman Wilbur, was president of Stanford University and se cretary of interior under Presi dent Hoover. His father, Blake C. Wilbur, was a surgeon with the Palo Alto Medical Clinic. Dr. Wilbur's uncle, Dwight Wilbur, was president of the American Medical Association in 1967. Born in Boston, Mass., Dr. Wilbur entered Stanford at 16, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1943. He went on to medical school at Stanford, graduating with the medical school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa. He is a board certified internist (1954) and a board certified gastro-enterologist (1958). While at Sheppard he toured the U.S. Air Force School of Health Care Sciences. Of special interest was the new physicians’ assistants course, the learning resources center, radiology and the medical equipment repair course. Dr. Wilbur also presented the Air Force Commendation Medal First Oak Leaf Cluster to TSgt. Dallas D. Dixon, a student in the Physicians’ Assistant course. Sergeant Dixon earned the medal for meritorious service as noncommissioned officer in charge of a 17-bed intensive care recovery room nursing unit at the U.S. Air Force Regional Hospital at Maxwell AFB, Ala., from June 15, 1969, to June 4, 1971.
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Wichita Falls Sheppard Senator
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Wed, Aug 11, 1971
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