John Bellows Herrmann ’54
John Bellows Herrmann ’54 passed away peacefully on March 5 in Newton Center, Massachusetts. John came to Dartmouth from Withrow High School in Cincinnati. At Dartmouth John participated in the Ledyard Canoe Club and the Dartmouth Outing Club and was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa. He majored in chemistry and zoology, graduating summa cum laude, and attended Dartmouth College Medical School. In 1957 he graduated from Harvard Medical School. John completed his surgical training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was a key member of the team that performed the first successful full-limb reattachment in 1962, and then served as a captain at Walter Reed Army Hospital during the Vietnam War. Following a period on the faculty at Georgetown Medical School he moved in 1972 to the Worchester (Massachusetts) City Hospital, where he practiced vascular surgery and became chief of surgery and simultaneously joined the newly formed University of Massachusetts Medical School as professor of surgery and became director of the division of surgical education. John was a founding member of the Association for Surgical Education and the New England Society for Vascular Surgery. He retired from full-time work in 1998, continuing to serve part-time through 2005. John was an avid photographer, inventor, researcher, author, magician, and outdoorsman. He traveled extensively in North America, Europe, and Asia. He and his family enjoyed mountain climbing, sailing, skiing, and canoeing. He is survived by his wife, MaryJane; children Christian ’85, Mark, and Karen; brother Kenneth ’56, DMS’57; and five grandchildren.
