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diplomate of the ABFP in 1970 and served as a Residency Assistance Program (RAP) consultant
from 1975-1977. He died in 2009 in Mount Morris.
His collection consists of materials related to the founding of STFM, including the only known copy
of the original set of STFM Constitution and Bylaws. Other materials include letters,
announcements and reports of the first meeting, and photographs from the organizational meeting of
STFM and the first meeting of the Constitutional Committee. The collection also contains a few
miscellaneous articles about Family Medicine.
Bishop, F. (Frances) Marian, Ph.D., M.S.P.H. (1927-2003)
1960-2000
1 box, 5 volumes of photograph albums – See also: Audio-Visual Collection; Library Collection;
Museum Collection; Photograph Collection; and Oversized Collection
Born in 1927, F. Marian Bishop was an only child of Francis Marion and Hattie May Bishop of
Springfield, Missouri. She was an extraordinary student with a lifelong devotion to education.
During her seventy-five years, Bishop earned a remarkable seven college degrees. Her first was an
Associate of Arts from Graceland College, completed in May 1947. She followed that with a
Bachelor of Arts two years later from Drury College. Incredibly, Bishop earned her first Masters
degree only one year later in 1950 from the University of Kansas, and followed that with a Masters
degree in Education from Syracuse University in 1952. Without slowing down, she earned a Ph.D.
in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis in 1954; it is here that she met her husband
Robert E. Froelich, Ph.D., an academic medicine psychiatrist. That same year, she accepted her first
teaching position at Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri, where she served as Associate
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology until 1956. She spent the following year in Frankfurt,
Germany, as a visiting professor for the University of Maryland. In 1963, Bishop was recruited to
join the University of Missouri Medical School in order to begin a new department in Behavioral
Medicine. During her time in Columbia, she earned her Master of Science degree in Public Health
(M.S.P.H.), which was her third Masters degree. Bishop was also, simultaneously, the Professor of
Community Health and Medical Practice and Chairman of the Teaching Staff for Human Ecology
and Behavioral Sciences until 1970. Bishop continued her career in Oklahoma City as a Professor of
the Department of Community Health, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Sciences at the College of
Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Services Center. She remained as such until
accepting a position as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine at the
University of Alabama-Huntsville in 1975. During her time in Alabama, Bishop also served as a
Professor in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Alabama-
Birmingham. While at Alabama-Huntsville, Bishop became the first Ph.D. president of the
Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM, now the Association for Prevention
Teaching and Research, or APTR), serving 1978-1979. She was also the first female president of the
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), serving 1981-1982. Furthermore, Bishop is the
only individual to serve as president of both of these organizations. In 1984, she left Alabama for the
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