Arnold's Story: July 1951 afterword

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.

Arnold is in the back row, far left.

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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Arnold's Story: June 1951 graduation

Arnold graduates from Harvard Medical School in June 1951. His parents and sister come east for the  graduation ceremony and tour Boston and its environs.

Somehow these June photos did not developed until September

Laura Nevis circa 1951

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Arnold's Story: April 1951

Two paragraphs from the April 1951 Engineering and Science issue:

Engineering and Science, California Institute of Technology, April 1951

Engineering and Science, California Institute of Technology, April 1951, 
Alumni News, page 46

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Arnold's Story: February 19, 1951

Arnold is offered an internship in surgery at the Stanford University Hospital:

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Arnold's Story: 1951 Aesculapiad

The Aesculapiad is the Harvard Medical School yearbook. The 1951 Aesculapiad lists Arnold with future plans to be a medical missionary in Asia. He is also seen here as a member of Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity and the Boylston Medical Society.

Arnold is in the back row, far right

Arnold's bookplate (from his copy of the 1951 Aesculapiad)

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Arnold's Story: November 13, 1950

A letter from Pat Nevis to her brother-in-law Arnold. Pat Quits smoking in 1950, but Leonard does not successfully quit. When I visited him in his eighties, he was still sharing a cigarette with his second wife Lucille in the afternoons.

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Arnold's Story: September 28, 1950

Apparently Jan Schuck missed seeing Arnold in Boston on his return from Newfoundland. She recently hiked Mt. Washington in New Hampshire with Ruth and Clem in a blizzard.

St. Anthony is a town on the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland.

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Arnold's Story: September 17, 1950

Tor Richter, another classmate from Harvard Medical School, writes Arnold with news from his class at Harvard Medical School. Some new names show up now: Al Skinner, Sarah, Bill Manson, Rutch, Al Damon, Marv Gordon, and Dave and Frances and Donald.

Arnold is now deciding whether he should pursue medical research or stick with his original plan to become a medical missionary in Korea.

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Arnold's Story: September 14, 1950

Arnold, Clem Hiebert and Jerry Foster wrote up their summer work in Twillingate as a report to the Public Health Department. The other medical students were impressed that Arnold was able to take over the Lewisporte, Newfoundland, practice as a substitute doctor while their main doctor was on leave or vacation.

Arnold covering for Dr. Cantwell in Lewisporte, Newfoundland

back of photo from Lewisporte

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Arnold's Story: May 18, 1950

Arnold receives an invitation to dinner at the home of one of the doctors at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after their last tutorial.

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Arnold's Story: April 2, 1950

I could find not El Tejon Hotel for the Grand Canyon, so it might be the famed Tovar Hotel instead.

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Arnold's Story: March 1950

Arnold receives his schedule for third year tutorial meetings for Harvard Medical School students at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

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