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16. Hysterical amblyopia. Tr. Indiana Acad. Ophth. Otolaryn. 1957, p. 48.

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18. Hysterical amblyopia. Quart. Bull. North­western U.M.S. 34:215, 1960.

19. The history of ophthalmology in Chicago. Chicago Med. 63 :34, 37, 1961.

20. Optical correction of aphakia. Intern. Ophth. Clin. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1961, p. 623.

21. Medicine in Chicago (1803-1963). The Cen­taur of Alpha Kappa Kappa, 68:101, 1962.

22. Alpha Kappa Kappa in Chicago. The Cen­taur of Alpha Kappa Kappa, 68:11, 1962.

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24. History of the American Journal of Oph­thalmology. Am. J. Ophth. 61:971, 1966.

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JOURNAL EDITORIALS 1. Ophthalmology and U.S.P. 34:637 (Apr.)

1951.

IN THE BEGINNING

William Alfred Mann, Jr., was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 21, 1898, the son of William A. and Anna D. Mann. The family then lived on East 43rd street and his early years were spent in the Chicago public schools. After the family moved to Wil-mette he continued his elementary education in the Wilmette Public School, and then was graduated from the New Trier High School in Winnetka in 1916.

Bill's maternal great grandfather, Alfred H. Hiatt, was a general practitioner in Wheaton, Illinois. In the early days of his practice, he made his daily rounds on horse­back. He was one of the five founders of Wheaton College.

From the Department of Ophthalmology, North­western University Medical School.

2. Salute to Vienna. 36:126 (Jan.) 1953. 3. The Pan-American cruise. 36:401 (Mar.)

1953. 4. The 1953 Academy meeting. 36:1632 (Nov.)

1953. 5. The Hadley School for the Blind. 45:583

(Apr.) 1958. 6. The Academy: 1960. 50:816 (Nov.) 1960. 7. The Academy—1961 model. 52:726 (Nov.)

1961. 8. Rehabilitation of the blind. 59:716 (Apr.)

1965. 9. The International Congress. 62:777 (Oct.)

1966. ACADEMY COURSES

Refraction and lens for the cataract patient. 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950.

Optical correction of aphakia. 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955.

Functional visual impairment. 1956, 1957, 1959. Interpretation of functional visual disturbances.

1960, 1961.

MOTION PICTURE FILM Errors of refraction. Produced in 1945 under a

grant from Northwestern University Medical School and revised and sound-tracked under a grant from Abbott Laboratories in 1966.

William A. Mann, Sr., was a well-known eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Chica­go, having graduated from the Chicago Medical College, which is now the North­western University Medical School, in 1883. He practiced general medicine in Rockport, Indiana, for a time, and returned to Chicago in his speciality in 1892.

T H E YEARS OF PREPARATION

Bill was graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign, in 1921. He be­came a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, men's social fraternity, and continued ac­tively in its alumni activities for many years following graduation.

Remaining faithful to his native state, he entered the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago in 1921. During his first

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year in medical school he joined Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity, an associ­ation which proved to be an important fac­tor in influencing his medical career and personal life. His years of service to the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY were perhaps, nurtured during these early years and, during his first year in medical school, he was the corresponding secretary for his local chapter to the national A.K.K. publication, The Centaur. The following year he became an associate editor of The Centaur and combined this task with the duty of business manager from 1923 to 1925. In 1925 he became its editor, a post which he held for the next five years. He has continued as book review editor of The Centaur to the present. As a medical student he also found time to serve as the Chicago editor for the Daily Illbti, the all-university newspaper published in Champaign. Addi­tionally he founded and edited the Aketa, the chapter publication for its active mem­bers and alumni.

His fraternity association seemed also a flintstone to spark his continued deep inter­est in the development of the students' so­cial attitudes as well as their academic medi­cal life. From medical school days to the present, he has served with a keen interest in nearly every office of the national frater­nity of Alpha Kappa Kappa, as well as pre­siding over the professional interfraternity conference for two terms. Because of his faithful and active service in A.K.K. at all levels from the national office to the local chapters during the past 46 years, he is warmly called "Daddy Mann" by its mem­bers.

Following graduation from the Univer­sity of Illinois Medical School he interned at the Evanston Hospital. From there he set out to specialize in ophthalmology. He re­turned to his Alma Mater for residency at the University of Illinois, then under the direction of E. V. L. Brown. After com­pleting the two-year program he practiced briefly as a locum tenens to earn funds to

attend the memorable Second Eye Clinic in Vienna. The Chicago area was well repre­sented there in 1926 for besides Bill Mann there were other young ophthalmologists, including Beulah Cushman, Vernon Leech, and Tom Allen. The Vienna Eye Clinics were then under the direction of Ernst Fuchs with much of the course material being handled by Adelbert Fuchs and K. Lindner. During this course, Bill became acquainted with one of the younger Austri­an instructors and later formed a lasting friendship when this instructor, Peter Kronfeld, came to the University of Chica­go three years later. At this time, too, Ber­tha Klien was an assistant in the Vienna Eye Clinics ; she also became a distinguished Chicagoan.

Bill Mann, being limited in funds, found such accommodation as would meet his budget and would be convenient to the clin­ics. Being in a strange city in a foreign country, he knew little of the type of the hotel where he stayed until Prof. Fuchs asked this young American student where he was staying. Upon hearing the name of the hotel, his brow became furrowed and he registered such concern as to make Bill in­quire the reason for this concern. Where­upon Herr Professor explained that this was a stunde-hotel of bad repute. Bill stead­fastly claims innocence to this day.

T H E PROFESSIONAL YEARS

Upon his return to Chicago, Bill Mann entered the practice of ophthalmology in his father's office in 1927. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University Medical School that year as a clinical assistant, ascending the academic ladder to become instructor in 1928, associate in 1929, assistant professor in 1933, associate professor in 1939 and professor in 1949, the rank he held until be­coming professor emeritus in 1966.

In 1928 a young nurse, who had taken her training at Cook County Hospital, joined the staff of the Northwestern University clinics and was assigned to the medical social

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service department. In those days, an in­structor spent nearly half of each day in the clinics, so that it was only a matter of time until Bill became acquainted with the charm­ing nurse, Maud L. Davison. As they worked together over the next three years, this acquaintance grew to courtship and Bill and Maud were married on May 30, 1931. Gail Soper, who had joined the faculty of Northwestern after his return from the Sec­ond Eye Clinic in Vienna in 1927, and had worked closely with Bill at the Northwest­ern clinics, was best man. Gail caused the newlyweds some consternation and delayed their honeymoon when he didn't get the car there at the arranged time.

During the honeymoon, they stayed in the cottage of friends at Black Oak Lake near Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin. In the mood of a honeymoon and with the natural beauty of the area, they bought property on little Lake Donohue, near Black Oak Lake the follow­ing year.

This retreat in the north woods offers as great a relaxing contrast to the hurried and harried pace of city life as one can imagine. Picture arising in the chill morning, stirring what remains of the embers of the fire in the Ben Franklin stove in the corner of the living room. Then, a quick dash to the "dark secret" some fifty yards from the cot­tage. Then to prime the pump for water. Then while Maud prepares breakfast Bill might run to the lake for a morning bath, which is quite permissible, there being no other inhabitants on this little lake. Ahead lies the entire day for hiking, boating, woodcutting, reading or whatever. Fishing on Lake Donohue is indeed a practice in pa­tience, but other nearby lakes offer good fishing. There is no electricity so that the evening is spent by kerosene lamplight or moonlight. Best of all, however, there is no telephone! As Bill's and Maud's family grew, they very wisely chose not to enlarge the original one bedroom cottage, but rather to build a second cottage some distance

away, thereby retaining their seclusion in the woods.

In the last few years, anticipating an op­portunity to spend more time at Land O'Lakes they have added the third "cabin." This too is a one-bedroom structure, but furnished with indoor plumbing, shower, electricity, central heating, and modern kitchen, but still no telephone.

Bill and Maud lived in the north of Chi­cago and then moved to Wilmette when the family began to enlarge, first with the birth of William A. Mann, III , then Nancy D., and finally David L. All three children are now married. William lives in Philadelphia, working in the research department of Smith, Kline and French. Nancy, now the wife of Hugh Germanetti, a building con­tractor, lives in Massena, New York. David, a captain in the Air Force, is stationed at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. The three of them have provided Bill and Maud with five grandchildren and, if all goes ac­cording to schedule, by the time this is pub­lished, there will be one more.

In 1948, the Manns moved to Winnetka on the lake front. The eye residents and their wives from Northwestern and Hines Veterans Hospital have fond memories of the gracious summer lawn parties Bill and Maud had through the years. They would also recall the winter storms that caused Lake Michigan to erode large portions of the bluff at the foot of the lawn. To build an appetite for dinner Bill would play the part of Tom Sawyer and have the residents pushing wheelbarrows with fill to construct a "great wall" to retain the bluff.

When Bill started practice he joined the medical staff of Wesley Memorial Hospital, then on the south side of Chicago. He left Wesley and joined the staff of Passavant Hospital from 1930 until 1940. When Wes­ley Memorial erected a new hospital build­ing on Superior Street he returned to its staff and, in the following year, became chairman of the Department of Ophthalmol-

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ogy. He instituted the residency program in ophthalmology in that hospital. Later the Wesley and Passavant programs combined so that the residents rotate between the two hospitals and spend half days at the North­western Medical School eye clinics.

He has been a consultant in ophthalmol­ogy at the United States Veterans Hospital in Hines, Illinois, since 1933, and became the chief of the department in 1945. He then established a residency training pro­gram in ophthalmology there. Since the be­ginning of the Wesley Hospital and the Hines Hospital residency programs, four residents have started their training each year so that Bill Mann has played a major part in the training of over 90 ophthal­mologists.

Through 40 years of practice, the con­tinuous association with medical students, the active participation in medical fraternity activities, and the training of residents have

served to keep Bill Mann young in spirit. In 1966, because of university regulations, he became professor emeritus at Northwestern University, and chairman emeritus of the De­partment of Ophthalmology of Chicago-Wesley Memorial Hospital. To honor his years of service, a new eye examination and treatment facility at Wesley Hospital will be named, "the William A. Mann Eye Room." He continues as chairman of the eye depart­ment at the Hines Veterans Administration Hospital.

For 21 years Bill Mann has given de­voted service to the editorial staff of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY and has served as secretary-treasurer of the Ophthalmic Publishing Company. It is to William A. Mann we pay tribute here as a symbol of those who give unselfishly of their time, devotion and energies to the be-hind-the-scene, but vitally important, roles in publication of T H E JOURNAL.

OPHTHALMIC MINIATURE

Medicine may be either from to measure or to meditate. Hospital de­rives from hos a stranger and is cousin to the bizarre group hostile, ho­tel, hostel, host and even ostler. Nurse is from Latin through French nourrice meaning nourisher. Fee has its roots in Old English and is cognate to Modern German Vieh meaning cattle; thus conveying the idea of wealth or substance, precisely as Latin pecus a herd is the parent of pecunia money.

G. P. Crookes, Ophthalmologica Tr. Ophth. Soc. U. K. 84:259, 1964