CLASS OF 1965 50 years later … CLASS OF 1965 REUNITES IN STILLWATER BY DERINDA BLAKENEY, APR When the members of the Class of 1965 graduated with their DVM degrees, they numbered 34, with 31 men and three women. In May 2014, 19 of the 29 living class members returned to Stillwater to celebrate the last 50 years. Here are brief summaries of their varied careers as OSU Cowboy veterinarians. GENESEE PHOTO THE CLASS OF 1965 The Class of 1965 from OSU’s Center for <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Health Sciences reunited with members: seated (from left): William Lance, Larry Edwards, Duane Lemburg, Wade Markham, Paul Frith and L.D. Barker. Center row, standing (from left): John Kirkpatrick, Sandie Olson (widow of Ben Olson), Barbara McAbee, Dianne Nail, Gail Thiede (widow of Johnnie Remer), Janet Bennett (widow of Dorland Bennett) and Darrell Allison. Back row standing (from left): Jerry Durham, Starling Miller, Talmage Brown, William Robertson, John Doyle and Ronald Ford. For a video of some members of the class, visit okla.st/1hbDm43. 84 Center for <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Health Sciences
DARRELL ALLISON, DVM, served as director of veterinary services in the Air Force <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Corps, worked in mixed veterinary practices in Oklahoma and Kansas and for the Hawaii Department of Agriculture. He was a consulting veterinarian to Laboratory Animal Services at the University of Hawaii and a founding member of the chancellor’s animal care committee, where he was an active member for 25 years. Allison retired in 2014. L.D. BARKER, DVM, established a mixed animal practice in Snyder, Okla. He also began rendering veterinary services in 1986 for the Oklahoma National Stockyards, the world’s largest livestock market. Later in 1986, he purchased a clinic in Newcastle, Okla., where he and his two sons, Mark (2005) and Matt (2012), practice. Barker is also a partner and president of SolidTech Animal Health, which manufactures a solid-dose, time-release vaccine for cattle. DORLAND BENNETT, DVM, served two years in the Air Force before returning to Hennessey, Okla. He worked for the USDA and served on the Oklahoma Board of <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Medical Examiners. Bennett died June 26, 2003. TALMAGE BROWN, DVM, PH.D., served in the Air Force before becoming a pathologist. In 1975, he joined the faculty at OSU College of <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Medicine. In 1978, he joined the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, as research leader of the Shipping Fever and Respiratory Diseases of Cattle Project. In 1981, Brown joined the new veterinary school at North Carolina University, where he developed the pathology program and worked until he retired in 2008. THOMAS COFFIN, DVM, served in the Army after graduation. Following discharge, he practiced in his hometown of Waukomis, Okla. He later joined Idabel (Okla.) <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Clinic, where he practiced for 25 years. In 1981, he built Coffin Animal Hospital and worked there until his 2006 retirement. Coffin also served on the Oklahoma <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Medical Association Board for four years. He died Dec. 29, 2013. JOHN DOYLE, DVM, worked in private practices in Ness City, Kan., and Anadarko and Perkins, Okla. In 1982, he became the animal health epidemiologist for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture and was director of the Brucellosis Eradication Program in Oklahoma. He also served several years on a USDA Tuberculosis Epidemiology Team traveling to Mexico before retiring. JERRY DURHAM, DVM, returned to his hometown of Prairie Grove, Ark., and established a mixed animal practice. He sold it and retired in 2011. LARRY EDWARDS, DVM, began his career in Amarillo, Texas. After one year, he moved to Sherman, Texas, where he established a small animal practice that he sold, retiring in 2012. RONALD FORD, DVM, spent two years in the Air Force. In 1968, he established a veterinary practice in Lemmon, S.D., where he works today. Since 1972, he has been raising roan and grey quarter horses. He stands Guys Gold Coin, a son of Frenchman Guy, as stud, shipping cooled semen and breeding on site. PAUL FRITH, DVM, MPH, served as a regional health officer for the Alaska Division of Public Health for 12 years and a compliance officer for Alaska OSHA for seven years. In 1995, he joined the Oregon OSHA staff as a training specialist. In 2005, he and his wife, Nancy, formed a consulting firm, OSHA Rx LLC, providing consulting services in the Pacific Northwest and in Trinidad/Tobago for the next 10 years. They currently reside in Fairbanks, Alaska. JOEL JENSEN, DVM, enjoyed practicing veterinary medicine and still provides assistance to a kennel a couple days a week. He also enjoys acting and has been part of a community theater for 35 years and counting. JOHN KIRKPATRICK, DVM, joined Drs. Charles Love and Louis Nightengale (OSU ’62) in a mixed animal practice in Ardmore, Okla. In 1972, he built his own mixed animal practice in Shattuck, Okla. In June 1992, he joined the food animal section at OSU’s College of <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Medicine and later served as director of <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Extension and director of the <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Medical Hospital. WILLIAM LANCE, DVM, MS, PH.D., joined the Air Force and served until 1973. In 1976, he joined the Wildlife Disease Center at Colorado State University’s College of <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Medicine. He worked as a researcher and earned a Ph.D. in pathology finishing in 1981. He then founded Wildlife Pharmaceuticals Inc., which has branches in South Africa, Canada and Mexico. DUANE LEMBURG, DVM, worked in Wichita, Kan., before entering the military. He was assigned to the Scout Dog Program to prepare dogs and handlers for their mission in Vietnam. This assignment included assisting in a scene from the movie The Green Berets. In 1969, he moved to Golden, Colo., and opened Applewood <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Hospital in 1970. In 1974, he and a nearby competitor joined to build Mesa <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Hospital, where he worked for the next 40 years, retiring in 2004. WADE MARKHAM, DVM, opened a practice in Pryor, Okla. Six months later he moved to Vinita, Okla., and eventually built Vinita <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Center with Dr. Gene Frie (OSU ’68). He sold his part of the practice in 1980 and continued to work out of his barn. In 2003, he was named Craig County’s Citizen of the Year. BARBARA MCABEE, DVM, worked in or owned various practices in North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa and Illinois. Her three goals when she graduated from OSU were to save the (animal) world, to foxhunt and to become an expert skier — and she accomplished all three. She currently does relief work in Illinois, Iowa and sometimes in Virginia. STARLING MILLER, DVM, joined a mixed animal practice in Perry, Okla., where he later became a full partner. After developing back issues, he left the practice and went into the auction and real estate business with his wife. DIANNE NAIL, DVM, practiced in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. In 1983, she and her husband Nick (OSU ’62) built a new hospital, Arrow Springs in Broken Arrow, where they worked until they sold it in 2004. She was the second female president of the Oklahoma <strong>Vet</strong>erinary Medical Association and the <strong>Vet</strong>erinarian of the Year in 2002. CONTINUES <strong>2015</strong> Oklahoma State University 85
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