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Minnesota AGP, serving as the chapter’s secretary for 5 years and as president in 1951. On the
national level, he served as a member of the AAGP’s first Congress of Delegates, as a member of the
AAGP’s Commission on Membership and Credentials, as treasurer of the AAGP, and from 1963 to
1964 was AAGP president. Although forced to retire from medicine in 1965 due to illness, he
continued in a second successful career as a director of three St. Paul banks and president of an
insurance agency until 1973. Dr. Ritt died in St. Paul in 1997 at the age of 89.
The Albert E. Ritt, M.D. Collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles, programs,
pamphlets and reports which are primarily concerned with Dr. Ritt’s service on the Academy Board
and his term as AAFP President, as well as material relating to his medical career as a whole.
Rutland, Richard O., Jr., M.D. (1926- )
1954-2000
1 slim document case
Born in 1926, Dr. Rutland attended both the University of Alabama and Duke University as an
undergraduate, and graduated from the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans in
1949. Following completion of his internship in Birmingham, Alabama, he undertook residency
training in California and Colorado, and then returned to Alabama to establish the McNease-Hodo
Clinic in rural Fayette. While practicing in Fayette, he established the era as a rural preceptorship
site both for the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, and later for the College
of Community Health Sciences in Tuscaloosa. In 1981, his work was recognized nationally when he
was named the 1981 Good Housekeeping Family Doctor of the Year. A diplomate of the ABFP and a
fellow and a life member of the AAFP, Dr. Rutland currently lives in Alabama.
Dr. Rutland’s collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles and several photographs
relating to his being awarded the 1981 Family Doctor of the Year Award. In addition, the collection
also holds 1 photocopied clipping book which was compiled in November 1981 concerning Dr.
Rutland as “Family Doctor of the Year,” and a second photocopied scrapbook compiled by his office
staff entitled “Dr. Rutland 1957-1997: From Patients-Compiled by Brenda & Sally.”
Sanchez, Rafael C., M.D. (1919-2008)
1860, 1919, 1943, 1950-2000
3 boxes, 1 slim document case – See also: Audio-Visual Collection; Museum Collection; and
Photograph Collection
Rafael C. Sanchez, M.D. was born July 18, 1919, in Tampa, Florida. He obtained premedical
training from Loyola University in Louisiana and medical training from Louisiana State University
School of Medicine, earning his M.D. in 1950. Sanchez remained in Louisiana for his internship at
the U.S. Marine Hospital in New Orleans. He served an extended period in the Army, eleven years,
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