HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU
AND YOUR FAMILY!

All of us at the Alumni and Constituent Relations Office and the Office of Development would like to wish you and your family all the best during the holiday season. May it be safe, peaceful and joyous!

KSOM ALUMS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Robert I. Greenblatt, M.D. - Class of 1979
Establishes Esther Greenblatt Memorial Scholarship Fund

"I am indeed honored to be an Esther Greenblatt Scholar" - Steven Stevens, Class of 2006

Robert I. Greenblatt, M.D. ’79, has an office-based practice in New Jersey where his primary specialty is gastroenterology. When he was searching for a meaningful and lasting way to memorialize his beloved mother Esther Greenblatt, he created a scholarship in her honor. The Esther Greenblatt Memorial Medical Student Scholarship Fund at the Keck School accomplishes his vision of giving back to his alma mater and helping the next generation of medical leaders. His annual gift to the scholarship fund assists up to two highly-qualified students in need of financial aid.

Scholarships like the Esther Greenblatt Memorial Scholarship enable the Keck School to recruit the best students and maintain a high retention rate. We are most grateful to Dr. Greenblatt for his thoughtful and caring tribute to his mother which will impact so many.

Howard Hodis - Class of 1984, named Bauer/Rawlins Professor in Cardiology

Howard N. Hodis, director of the USC Atherosclerosis Research Unit, has been named the Harry J. Bauer and Dorothy Bauer Rawlins Professor of Cardiology.

A professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, Hodis focuses on the murky mysteries behind atherosclerosis—an accumulation of fatty material along the inner walls of arteries that causes heart disease and stroke.

The professorship recognizes his influential work in atherosclerosis detection and prevention and his dedication to furthering science in the field.

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Year End Donations Are Easy Online

You can make your year end donation to KSOM up until midnight on December 31, 2004 using your credit card. It’s quick, easy, safe, and secure. Just click on the link below to go to our secure online donation form:

https://www-abc.hsc.usc.edu:555/makeagiftnow/keck-form.html

You may designate a specific program by noting it in the comments section. For example: “Class of 1976 Scholarship Fund.” Please take a moment to make your tax-deductible gift now. We truly appreciate your generosity!

Forrest Hull, M.D. - Class of 1938
1911 - 2004

Dr. Forrest E. Hull died in Edmonton, Canada; he was 93.
Born September 8, 1911 in Los Angeles, Dr. Hull received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and his M.D. degree from the University of Southern California. Dr. Hull spent 33 years in the military; during World War II, he received the Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre in Gold and was invited to the White House to meet Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. During the Korean War, he was in charge of Ophthalmology for the entire Far East Command and established an eye service at Tokyo General Hospital. Dr. Hull retired from the U.S. Army in 1953 as a full Colonel. At the time of his death, he had just finished writing his memoirs, "One Man and Two Wars,” not yet published.

In 1959, Hull established the Hull Eye Center in Lancaster, California. He served as a volunteer on the hospital ship "Good Hope" in 1966 and 1970, bringing medicine to Africa. He taught at hospitals in Indonesia with the Care-Medico program and was a volunteer instructor at the Jules Stein institute of Ophthalmology at UCLA. He was a member of the first city council of Lancaster and donated land for the formation of the 10 acre Hull Park in Lancaster.

Hull is survived by his wife Marte Van Wachem Hull, his son Frank E. Hull D.D.S. (USC-1977) and wife Barbara, daughter-in-law Sandra Hull, four stepchildren and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Kathryn Ballas Hull in 1992 and his son Dr. Stephan Hull (USC-1957) in 1990.

Gifts to honor Dr. Hull’s memory may be made by credit card on our secure online donation page by clicking here or they may be sent to: Keck School of Medicine, c/o Colin Kaiser, 1975 Zonal Avenue, KAM 300, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9026.