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: June 1951

Bill, Hazel and Laura take the train from Los Angeles to San Francisco and then on to the East Coast. They might have taken the Southern Pacific Daylight from Los Angeles along the coast to San Francisco. Then from San Francisco they would have caught a ferry across the San Francisco Bay to Oakland, where they would board the California Zephyr to Chicago and then another train to Boston. The Zephyr featured the Vista-Dome for excellent views of the scenery. 

Laura, Hazel and Bill Nevis on a ferry in the San Francisco Bay, June 1951

Leonard, Hazel and Laura Nevis on a ferry in the San Francisco Bay, June 1951

Hazel and Bill Nevis on a ferry in the San Francisco Bay, June 1951

Laura Nevis and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge seen from a ferry in the San Francisco Bay, June 1951

California Zephyr Vista-Dome, June 1951

view from the California Zephyr, June 1951

Hazel and Bill Nevis in the Vista-Dome of the California Zephyr, June 1951

view from the Vista-Dome of the California Zephyr, June 1951

view from the Vista-Dome of the California Zephyr, June 1951

view from the California Zephyr, June 1951

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Arnold's Story: May 1951

The Boylston Medical Society Catalogue of May 1951 shows Arnold as a member of the class of 1951 and as having presented a paper "Cell Structures in Relation to Function" to the Society.

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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: March 24, 1951

Arnold has signed the agreement with Stanford University Hospital for his internship in surgery.

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Arnold's Story: March 9, 1951

The formal letter of office arrives from Stanford University Hospital:

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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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The 1950 Terry Rambler trailer was affectionately dubbed the "canned ham". Bill was a keen gadget purchaser; here we find him buying a new 16-inch GE television and giving his old one, a Crosby, to Leonard.

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