Class Notes

School of Medicine and Dentistry

1970

Charles Rodning (MD) and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, have published a book, Waitin’ ’Round the Bend (Negative Capability Press). The book combines original Japanese short-form poems with sumi-e paintings. Charles and Mary are both published poets and sumi-e artists. Charles is a professor of surgery at the University of South Alabama.

1979

Floyd Dewhirst (PhD) has received the 2014 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award from the American Society for Microbiology. The award cites Floyd for his “leadership in the field of oral bacterial taxonomy through the creation of the Human Oral Microbiome Database.” Floyd conducts research at the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a professor at Harvard’s School of Dental Medicine.

1986

Richard Gallo (MD/PhD) has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Richard is credited with the discovery of antimicrobial peptides in mammalian skin and with being the first to show that the peptides play an essential role in immunity. He’s a professor of medicine and pediatrics and chief of the dermatology division at the University of California, San Diego.

2009

Grace Vangeison Johnston (PhD) (see ’04 College).