Arnold returns twice for Harvard Medical School class reunions in 1956 and 1976. The class of 1951 also includes the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School: Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson.
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| Arnold is in the back row, far left. |
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| Arnold is on the far right, third row, with a dark shirt and glasses, sporting a full goatee |
In July 1951 Arnold starts his year-long internship in surgery at Stanford University Hospital, where he meets his future wife Newlin Ashmore. They marry in September 1952 and move to Boston for Arnold to complete a PhD in Physics as a key part of his interest in biomedical research. By then he has decided that his contribution to the world would not be as a medical missionary but as a medical researcher. Arnold's career takes them across the country to Texas, California and Florida. In Florida they settle down permanently in September 1960.
Arnold passed away in July 1986 at the age of 64, just one month before his official retirement from the University of Florida.
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