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F' 1 6^' tt••, ~. ft -.. Ke ~ ' j~~ a /7 a /t.,J ~ ~Ln Z~7 4. II G%•i7 r.:. A distinguished graduate of ; Ilamilton High School, class of 1904, was presented "The Dis- tingttished Service Award" by his-Ahna Mater, the Medical Branch of the Univesity. of Texas; at commencement ex- ercises in Galveston last night, Juiie' 14. Recipient of the award was Dr. Kenneth M. Lynch who is now chancellor of the Medical College of South Carolina in "• Charleston, S. C. "The Distinguished Service Award"• is the highest honor within the gift of the Univers- ity of Texas. Dr. Lynch has retained an interest in. Hamilton down •through the years. He still has many friends here, as well as relatives. He claims kinship td the Secrest'and Miller families. He.has frequently written to the Herald-News about some old-timer or some matter of community interest. A recent letter from Dr. Lynch contain- ed the following paragraph: "I . have- just received my copy of the Hamilton Herald- News which carries a special edition on my old high school, from which,I graduated iin 1904 under the'.name of' "Dale Lynch. It cattsed me atso to "step back through the halls of mm»nr,nc~ nc n+irin . H 1' Ivledical Association and th } Southern Medical Associatit, as well as Chairman of t4:' Section on Medical 1!alucalio of the latter. Presently he i ! Chairman of the Scientific r{c; visory Board of the Coturc, for Tobacco Research-U.S•? He has been listed in "Whr Who" as, well as a number c' other biographical publica tions, ever since 1937: • From a beginning at th University of Pennsylvania Di ' Lynch has been throughout hi career•'active in medical re search, and he has produc:e- more than 100 articles publish ed in medical science journal: ' as well as two books, one c which was published'in Pln~4 land as well as in America. Th subjects of his researches hav, been of wide range, but majoi ' ing in protozoan dlsease, in once comnlon "horrid" diseas called 'granuloma inguinale, and in air pollution and cancc of the lung. In all three are,a' he is credited with pioneeriii" accomplishments. Currently h is the "chief investigator" i: two research projects at th Medical College which are sup, ported by grants from nationa level fouindations, one of .vhiel is the now Belle tiV. Yaruci 1!btihilat'lon: As president•of the r,2edica: College from'1944 to 1960, Di neli: 'devnlnrsed- •tht, i?~'?*rAQ- Plan off the Expansion Progr; n which has been at the forcfro;; in the modern conception o the "health and medical educa tional, service and researcl center." His program has pro' duced an outstanding medica complex of that order in th• midsection of Charleston. It i now in a resurgence of co^i pletion. Dr. Lynch is currently' e:: gaged in a mission of writi:: the story of "Medical School ,irg in S,cxath 'Carolit}a"~" 0 4huclw 12 chaptata F!ve e~rtiai;f. becn published aa articW-; i" ivi._ /.. x 1V l:•tl, A9..•lJ„ .V.l.~L,'.V. -_.l:riar- , . goes, 'oes; and` Ican -everi• h'e'ar'...the ~!Ay 1V t:. i x_ AC'• college" bell, the xepe of leston, S. twhich I used to pull. I hope • that bell has been preserved." Texas as well as the Medical State Retirernent System, he Perhaps some of the early College of South Carolina. l was given the title of "Chan- HIIS students• will be able to After graduating at the Un- cellor." In his tenure in South inform Dr. Lynch what became iversity of Texas Dr. Lynch Carolina he has served in many of the bell. In the meantime, accepted appointment as Res- positions of honor and trust, they will be glad to read of the ident. Pathologist at the Phil- including the chainnanship of honor he has ,'ron. - adelphia General Hospital and the State Board of Health and . Although a graduate of the then as Instructor of Pathology the presidency of the South University of Texas, practical- at the University of Pennsyl= Carolina Medical Association. ly the entire service on which vania. • He has also been an active the honor is based was given When the Medical College of . participant in many medical from and at the Medical Col- South Carolina was taken over and scientific organizations of 1eg* of South Carol•a.na,, and Dr. as a state . institution in 1913, '"national level and has served LynclK alao hotc3s tYrta Pumar- !ae w.a linVvtbad b Oic Prallu= JS 445651 Woaa iza a, nuni- aiy, degrees from South Caro- sorship oi`'1'athol',a„y, and be- y'be^r, i2melu+ai~i the pr®sidmncy ! lina institutions, Doctor of came the first full-time faculty , of the Ametle'an Society of ( Laws from• both the University member . of that institution i Clinical Pathology and of the of South Carolina and the Col- which was founded in 1E29 • American Society of Tropical lege of'Charleston, and Doctor as the first medical school I Medicine' as well as the vice- of Sciene.e frorn Clemson Un- south of Baltin:ore. Except for presidency of the American iversity, a five-year interim in private Association (presiding at the He has also been awarded practice in Dallas, . Dr: Lynch 1936 convention). It also in- the Gold Medal for Research occupied the chair of Pathology eludes mem!)ership in the , by the American Medical Asso- at the *rledical Collc:ge Of South Board of- Governors of - the i lies in "ta in5 it out of i`•' ciation, the Research Medal as i Carolina, and v/as consultin ; ,American Co1,lc ;e ctf 1:"tl}'~i- 1pomp of histo:'y and ma'ai:" ; well as the Dinstitigttished ~pathologist to many South cians, ti~e Board of Directors of the property off the aiLectltnis: Service-11rIedal of the Southern Carolina hospitals, until his re- the American Society -for- the Medical Association, -the Merit tirement in 1960 with the title Control of Cancer, an Advisory -- •- A'ward of the American Med- of Professor Emeritus. Council of the National Insti- ical Education Foundation an~ In 1935 Dr.. Lynch was ap- tutes of Health, the.Council of the 1957 Medal of the Amer- pointed Vice-Dean of the Med- the Southern Medical Associa- ican Cancer Society. He is also ical College, and theri Deann in tion, and the Editorial Boards a member of the scholarship 1943. The title. of that chief of several national medical honor societies Phi Beta Kap- executive position was chang- journals. pa at the University of South ed to President in 1949. At his He has also served as Chair- Carolina and Alpha Omega retirement on 'July 1,. 1960,:man of the Section on. Path- Slpha at the University of i under • the mandates of- the' olo~y of both the American ' . HAMILTON, ~r~;~ ,, Y 7 G=:k-•\ / [,f~'" /'J (] ' f F~' f~ [ ,f^ ~,(~~ J ~{~~~I 1j, F•. J l~ l~/\i1 ~.:-+: `3-! 'ti-~ ~f~l l/[i•lY `~.~?Grn] THE JOURNAL OF TF+ S• O U T'H CAROLIhA iViE(3t CAL ASSOCIaTIO\Y. In thi narrative, coverin~~ the peric• from the beginning of n'neteenth century to the pr-' he says hi> objocti'• ent era