Vet Cetera magazine 2015

DARRELL ALLISON, DVM, served as director
of veterinary services in the Air Force Veterinary
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 Veterinary
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 Veterinary 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.) Veterinary
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 Veterinary 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
Veterinary Medicine and later served as director
of Veterinary Extension and director of the
Veterinary 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 Veterinary
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
Veterinary Hospital in 1970. In 1974, he
and a nearby competitor joined to build Mesa
Veterinary 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 Veterinary
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 Veterinary
Medical Association and the Veterinarian
of the Year in 2002.
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