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18TH DINGMAN SOCIETY SCIENTIFIC MEETING AND GRABB LECTURE
Dr. Homer Stryker, was a UM
Orthopaedic Alumnus who started
Stryker Instruments, a multi-billion
dollar surgical instrument company,
name which Dingman Society member
amputated Homer Stryker’s finger?
Answer: James Stillwell (‘62) who lives in Rome, AL,
but practiced in Kalamazoo, MI.
HONORING DR. HACK \NEWMAN
June 9 and 10th, 2006
Dr. Jack Gunter (res 1980)
Dr. Grant Fairbanks’ father was a world
renown sculptor at the University of
Michigan, what Dingman member was
an art student in his father’s class?
Answer: Avard Fairbanks taught Reed Dingman at UM.
Aside from Drs. Reed and David
Dingman, what other Dingman Society
members have spawned plastic surgeons?
Answer: Otto Au (‘63) and Victor Au, North Carolina
Can you list the 5 surgical societies
at the University of Michigan?
Answer: Carl Badgley Society (Orthopaedics),
Reed Dingman Society (Plastics), John Alexander Society
(Thoracic), Reed Nesbit Society (Urology),
Fred Coller Society (General Surgery)
H OW’ S Y OUR H ISTORY OF UM PLASTIC S URGERY?
Seated (L-R): Lois Stilwell, Sophia
Hernandez, Reed O Dingman,
Thelma Dingman, Clyde Litton,
Dolly Mauzy
Standing: Leon Hernandez,
Jim Stilwell, Jack Alger, Ann
Natvig, Paul Natvig, Gordon Bell,
Cozy Grabb, Jane Lucid,
Marilyn Bell, Morgan Lucid,
Bill Grabb, Merit Mauzy
Thanks to Cozy Grabb for providing the answers to our first Dingman Meeting Guest List above.
Harvey Lemmen was a patient of Dr.
Reed Dingman’s back in the 1940s, what
plastic surgeon is Mr. Lemmen’s cousin
and who trained with Reed Dingman and
Ferris Smith in Grand Rapids?
Answer: Howard Lawrence, MD, who lives and
practiced in Scottsdale, AZ.
Two grandchildren of UM Surgical
Societies ran cross-country and track
at Dartmouth. Who are these two
grandchildren?
Answer: Dagny Dingman (grand daughter of Reed
Dingman and daughter of David Dingman) and Jessie
Coller Allen Young (great granddaughter of Fred Coller)
and now and Architecture Student at UM.
ASPS UM DINGMAN
SOCIETY DINNER
Sunday, September 25th, 7:00 pm
Gibson’s Steakhouse
& Hugo’s Frog and Fish House
1028 North Rush Street, Chicago, IL.
C ALENDAR OF E VENTS
2 0 0 5 N E W S L E T T E R
N EW Q UESTION:
Who cycles Route 66
and is related to Reed Dingman
and also a plastic surgeon?
Photo below
2ND STRYKER LECTURE
IN HAND SURGERY
December 9th-10th
James Lee, MD, West Virginia
University School of Med.
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