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The League for People with Disabilities has a new director of Medical Day. Chuck L. Griffith develops and organizes a broad range of services that improve the quality of life of disabled adults. In addition, he manages the staff and volunteers who provide education, transportation and rehabilitation services. Griffith, who has 15 years of experience working in health care and adult-day services, formerly worked as Westminister's Active Day Medical Day Care center director. He is working on his master's in health care administration at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.

The League for People with Disabilities has a new director of Medical Day. Chuck L. Griffith develops and organizes a broad range of services that improve the quality of life of disabled adults. In addition, he manages the staff and volunteers who provide education, transportation and rehabilitation services. Griffith, who has 15 years of experience working in health care and adult-day services, formerly worked as Westminister's Active Day Medical Day Care center director. He is working on his master's in health care administration at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.

Malachy Nolan,103, the nation's oldest member of a religious order, died Friday.He was a member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a religious teaching order.Born Patrick Francis Nolan, he joined the Brothers in 1911 at De La Salle Novitiate in Castletown, Ireland, and took as his religious name Malachy.Brother Malachy volunteered in 1913 for missionary service in the United States. He began his career as a Catholic school teacher in 1913. For six decades, he was a teacher or principal in New York, New Hampshire and Michigan.

Dr. Robert A. Montgomery Occupation Associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; chief of the division of transplantation and director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Hopkins Hospital. In the news Montgomery led the Hopkins team that on Nov. 14 performed the world's first five-way kidney transplant. Five kidney patients, each with a willing but incompatible donor, swapped donor organs so that each received a compatible transplant. Career highlights Montgomery has worked to develop techniques for the minimally invasive removal of healthy kidneys for donation, and transplantation to patients with incompatible blood types.

On November 19, 2004, due to complications of diabetes, DR. DEAN H. LOCKWOOD, 67, of Pittsford, NY. He was born June 17, 1937, in Millford, CT. He graduated from Albany Academy in 1955, Wesleyan University in 1959 and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1963. Dean willingly served as a surgeon in the Public Health Service from 1964 to 1965, he taught at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1967 to 1976 and later as the Chair of the Endocrine and Metabolism Unit and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine from 1976 to 1991.

Dr. James W. Bartlett, 75, psychiatrist, medical director Dr. James W. Bartlett, a psychiatrist and former medical director of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., died Saturday at his Gibson Island home of complications from multiple myeloma. He was 75. During a nearly 40-year career in medicine, Dr. Bartlett was associated with the University of Rochester Medical Center from 1952 until 1990, when he retired. He was medical director of Strong Memorial Hospital from 1967 to 1983.

Dr. James A. Block, president and chief executive officer at University Hospitals in Cleveland, was named today to be president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System.Dr. Block, 51, will succeed Dr. Robert M. Heyssel, who will retire July 1 after 20 years in the hospital's top post."We have found a president we believe will not only maintain the standard of excellence expected of Hopkins, but will also advance the quality of health care in the years ahead," said H. Furlong Baldwin, chairman of Hopkins' board of trustees.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The University of Rochester had ambitions to be a national powerhouse in medical research. And it had charted a meticulous 10-year plan to get there: Get more research money from the National Institutes of Health, recruit 100 more biomedical scientists and construct two research buildings. Then came the jackpot. In April, the university announced that it had been awarded a broad patent covering the use of a new type of painkiller that could bring in billions of dollars in royalties.

Peter A. Stranges, an aeronautical engineer who was instrumental in developing the jet engine, died Monday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of complications from colon cancer. He was 83. Mr. Stranges was commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy in 1943 and was sent to the California Institute of Technology, where he helped develop the engine. With four other Naval officers, he also conducted successful flight tests of the military's Banshee jet off the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier.

Dr. Robert A. Montgomery Occupation Associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; chief of the division of transplantation and director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Hopkins Hospital. In the news Montgomery led the Hopkins team that on Nov. 14 performed the world's first five-way kidney transplant. Five kidney patients, each with a willing but incompatible donor, swapped donor organs so that each received a compatible transplant. Career highlights Montgomery has worked to develop techniques for the minimally invasive removal of healthy kidneys for donation, and transplantation to patients with incompatible blood types.

On November 19, 2004, due to complications of diabetes, DR. DEAN H. LOCKWOOD, 67, of Pittsford, NY. He was born June 17, 1937, in Millford, CT. He graduated from Albany Academy in 1955, Wesleyan University in 1959 and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1963. Dean willingly served as a surgeon in the Public Health Service from 1964 to 1965, he taught at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1967 to 1976 and later as the Chair of the Endocrine and Metabolism Unit and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine from 1976 to 1991.

Peter A. Stranges, an aeronautical engineer who was instrumental in developing the jet engine, died Monday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of complications from colon cancer. He was 83. Mr. Stranges was commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy in 1943 and was sent to the California Institute of Technology, where he helped develop the engine. With four other Naval officers, he also conducted successful flight tests of the military's Banshee jet off the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier.

IT'S BEEN CALLED "fearlessly prescriptive." One reviewer said it contained "must-read advice." A "handbook for everyone who is raising children, divorced or together," chimed in another reviewer. It's also been called "a godsend" and "a sensible and practical guide." What's the book they're talking about? It didn't make Oprah's book club, that's for sure. That's because this book was written by two guys. It's for guys, but women may get some value from it, too. So, just as Father's Day 2002 arrives, F. Daniel McClure and Jerry B. Saffer give you Wednesday Evenings and Every Other Weekend: From Divorced Dad to Competent Co-Parent.

IN ROCHESTER, N.Y., a healthy college sophomore dies a few days after volunteering to be part of a medical experiment. Within three days, the University of Rochester Medical School holds two news conferences, lining up several of the school's top medical officials to explain in detail what they know about the tragedy. In Baltimore, a healthy 24-year-old woman dies a month after participating in a research study. Eleven days later, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faxes a four-paragraph statement to the media and doesn't make anyone available for interviews.

Dr. James W. Bartlett, 75, psychiatrist, medical director Dr. James W. Bartlett, a psychiatrist and former medical director of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., died Saturday at his Gibson Island home of complications from multiple myeloma. He was 75. During a nearly 40-year career in medicine, Dr. Bartlett was associated with the University of Rochester Medical Center from 1952 until 1990, when he retired. He was medical director of Strong Memorial Hospital from 1967 to 1983.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The University of Rochester had ambitions to be a national powerhouse in medical research. And it had charted a meticulous 10-year plan to get there: Get more research money from the National Institutes of Health, recruit 100 more biomedical scientists and construct two research buildings. Then came the jackpot. In April, the university announced that it had been awarded a broad patent covering the use of a new type of painkiller that could bring in billions of dollars in royalties.

Dr. Lee Alvin DuBridge, 92, president emeritus of the California Institute of Technology, died of pneumonia on Sunday at a retirement center in Duarte, Calif. He was an internationally known physicist who helped develop radar in World War II. He headed Caltech from 1946 until 1969, when President Richard M. Nixon appointed him White House science adviser. He retired from that position 18 months later but remained a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. A gentle, unflappable man, he arrived at Caltech as it was veering away from the secret military projects of the World War II era and returning to fundamental science.

Size beat quickness at the Newton White Athletc Center last night, as the University of Rochester, with three starters as tall or taller than any opposing starter, defeated Johns Hopkins. 81-73.It was the opening University Athletic Association game for both teams.Rochester (4-1), with three starters from last year's Division III national champions, bolted to a 7-0 lead and never trailed.Johns HopkIns (3-2) rallied from a first-half, 13-point deficit to get Within 50-48, but Rochester quickly restored a 10-point cushion.

Malachy Nolan,103, the nation's oldest member of a religious order, died Friday.He was a member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a religious teaching order.Born Patrick Francis Nolan, he joined the Brothers in 1911 at De La Salle Novitiate in Castletown, Ireland, and took as his religious name Malachy.Brother Malachy volunteered in 1913 for missionary service in the United States. He began his career as a Catholic school teacher in 1913. For six decades, he was a teacher or principal in New York, New Hampshire and Michigan.