Class Notes

1957 William Mangum (MD) has written a memoir, Out of the Land of Frozen Fires (Lulu), tracing his life from his birth in the Badlands of New Mexico to medical school at Rochester, and then to Colorado for “a long and gratifying career in general surgery.”

1962 Don Hultquist (PhD) (see ’56 College).

1966 Gary Kish (MD), ’71 (Res) (see ’62 College).

1974 John Vanek (MD) has published Miracles (Coffeetown Press), the second novel in his Father Jake Austin Mystery Series, in which Father Austin “is faced with a dying sister, a bleeding Virgin Mary statue, and a comatose infant in the intensive care unit.”

1975 David Figurski (PhD) is the subject of a book written by his wife, Donna O’Donnell, about their experience after David suffered a traumatic brain injury and Donna became his caregiver. The book is called Prisoners without Bars: A Caregiver’s Tale (WriteLife Publishing).

1985 Mark Eisenberg (MD) has published Cardiology Board Review and Self-Assessment: A Companion Guide to Hurst’s the Heart (McGraw-Hill Education). The book is an all- inclusive study guide including more than 1,100 questions and detailed answers. It was written to complement the 14th Edition of Hurst’s the Heart, a comprehensive review of the field of cardiovascular medicine.

2006 Darria Long Gillespie (MD) (see ’00 College).