Class Note 1965
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September-October 2022
I hope this will reach you in time to make reservations for our fall mini-reunion being organized by Mike Gonnerman to run September 29 through October 2. We have a full slate of activities, including a Thursday reception at Ravine Lodge, Penn football Saturday, and our annual business meeting on Sunday at Pierce’s Inn. Details and registration at www.biggreen65.com.
John Bullock recently received the Career Achievement Award from Dartmouth, recognizing his contributions in two different careers. He has been at times professor of ophthalmology, physiology and biophysics, mathematics and statistics, microbiology and immunology, and population and public health. John entered Dartmouth Medical School after our junior year, then received his M.D. from Harvard. He had a distinguished career in clinical and academic ophthalmology, research, invention, and teaching, with more than 240 publications to his credit (including a medical textbook chapter at Wright State Medical School for which Brad Hawley was associate editor and to which Bob Witty also contributed—small ’65 world!). During 25 years as a clinician, John cared for more than 50,000 patients, performed more than 10,000 ocular/orbital operations, documented three new causes of blindness, and elucidated the cause or description of 10 retinal disorders.
After a bicycle accident in 2000 made it impossible for him to continue eye surgery, he turned his focus to epidemiology. He has published investigations of the 10 plagues of Egypt and the blindness of the biblical St. Paul, Dom Perignon (inventor of champagne), and Leonhard Euler (mathematical genius). John’s investigation of a worldwide outbreak of fusarium infections of the eye in 2004-06 revealed that plastic bottles of an over-the-counter eye product had been stored in a non-air-conditioned warehouse exposed to hot southern weather. His research documented that at high temperatures the plastic containers absorbed the solution’s preservative and subsequent fungal infections led to visual impairment and blindness.
John has been a member of the esteemed American Ophthalmological Society since 1983 and serves on the board of governors of the American Osler Society. He has been appointed to the editorial boards of eight medical journals, including Nature (public health), and serves on Geisel’s alumni council.
—Bob Murphy,7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net
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John Bullock recently received the Career Achievement Award from Dartmouth, recognizing his contributions in two different careers. He has been at times professor of ophthalmology, physiology and biophysics, mathematics and statistics, microbiology and immunology, and population and public health. John entered Dartmouth Medical School after our junior year, then received his M.D. from Harvard. He had a distinguished career in clinical and academic ophthalmology, research, invention, and teaching, with more than 240 publications to his credit (including a medical textbook chapter at Wright State Medical School for which Brad Hawley was associate editor and to which Bob Witty also contributed—small ’65 world!). During 25 years as a clinician, John cared for more than 50,000 patients, performed more than 10,000 ocular/orbital operations, documented three new causes of blindness, and elucidated the cause or description of 10 retinal disorders.
After a bicycle accident in 2000 made it impossible for him to continue eye surgery, he turned his focus to epidemiology. He has published investigations of the 10 plagues of Egypt and the blindness of the biblical St. Paul, Dom Perignon (inventor of champagne), and Leonhard Euler (mathematical genius). John’s investigation of a worldwide outbreak of fusarium infections of the eye in 2004-06 revealed that plastic bottles of an over-the-counter eye product had been stored in a non-air-conditioned warehouse exposed to hot southern weather. His research documented that at high temperatures the plastic containers absorbed the solution’s preservative and subsequent fungal infections led to visual impairment and blindness.
John has been a member of the esteemed American Ophthalmological Society since 1983 and serves on the board of governors of the American Osler Society. He has been appointed to the editorial boards of eight medical journals, including Nature (public health), and serves on Geisel’s alumni council.
—Bob Murphy,7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net