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1973 he moved to Sun City, Arizona, splitting his time between that community and Bellaire,
Michigan. Dr. DeTar was named Michigan’s Foremost Family Physician in 1948 and received the
Detroit College of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award in 1956. As a member of the AAGP, he
served as speaker of the Congress of Delegates from 1951-1955, was chosen president-elect in 1955,
and served as AAGP president from 1956 to 1957. He also served the Michigan State Medical
Society as speaker for two terms. He died in 1996 in Bellaire.
The John (Jack) S. DeTar, M.D. Collection consists of one item, a rough draft of the Address of the
President, presented to the 1957 AAGP Congress of Delegates in St. Louis, Missouri. The draft runs
thirty-four pages in length. There are numerous markings in different ink colors and presumably by
different editors, including the author. A heavily edited final version of DeTar’s presidential address
was published in the July 1957 issue of GP.
DeVries, Jan, M.D. (1928- )
1956-2001
2 boxes and 1 oversized volume of account records
Jan R.J. de Vries, M.D., was born in 1928 in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, where his father worked
as an employee of the Dutch government in horticulture. During World War II, the de Vries family
was captured by the Japanese when they invaded Indonesia. They were subsequently sent to a prison
camp, where Dr. deVries’ mother died of starvation. After being set free from the camp in 1945, Dr.
deVries went to the Netherlands, where he graduated with an M.D. degree from Leiden University
School of Medicine in 1952. After completing his internship at Leiden University Hospital in the
Netherlands, Dr. deVries returned to Indonesia, where he worked from 1956 to 1960 as a missionary
physician. In 1961, he came to the United States, and after serving a second internship at the
Washington Sanitarium and Hospital in Takoma Park, Maryland, he went into private general
practice in Boswell, Pennsylvania. In Boswell, Dr. deVries became an active member of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians, serving as President of the PAFP from 1983 to 1984
and again from 1990 to 1991. In addition to his service with the PAFP, he also received the
Pennsylvania Family Physician of the Year Award in 1996.
The Jan de Vries, M.D. Collection consists of Dr. deVries’ anesthesia records from his service in
Indonesia from 1956-1957; 1 small and 1 large (oversized) ledger holding account records from his
office practice from 1962 to 1969; a daily log of 4 volumes covering his activities while in practice
from 1962 to 1965; and other files, which include a c.v., newspaper clippings, brief memoirs, and an
account of his time practicing in Indonesia entitled “Sumedang Story.”
Elliott, Olin A., M.D. (1906-1982)
1926-1982
1 box—See also: Museum Collection and Oversized Collection
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