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Spidle, Jake W., 1941-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1941

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Jack Curry Redman oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 64
Abstract This collection contains the oral history interview with Dr. Jack Redman conducted by University of New Mexico professor Dr. Jake Spidle in 1987. Dr. Redman practiced medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico for forty years. He served sixty days in Vietnam with the Volunteer Physicians for Vietnam of the American Medical Association, where he provided medical care to injured civilians, was active in New Mexico Skin Cancer Project, was a Republican candidate for office, and educated the public about...
Dates: 1987

Jack M. Campbell oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 111
Scope and Contents This interview with Jack M. Campbell (1916-1999) summarizes his involvement with two New Mexico medical institutions, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and the Lovelace Medical Foundation. The medical school was created by the New Mexico legislature while Campbell was speaker of its House of Representatives, and the school formally opened during his tenure as governor. Governor Campbell also served for several years on the Lovelace Medical Foundation's Board of Trustees, and the...
Dates: 1985 October 25

John Franklin Boyd oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 83
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. John F. Boyd (1920-1999), an orthopedic surgeon of Albuquerque, New Mexico, surveys his personal and professional activities. Arriving in Albuquerque in 1953, Dr. Boyd practiced his specialty for 39 years until his retirement at the end of 1991. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Boyd's personal and professional backgrounds; his appraisal of Albuquerque medicine in the 1950's, including evaluation of hospital facilities and the Albuquerque medical...
Dates: 1991 July 26

John H. Dettweiler oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 122
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. John H. Dettweiler (1920-2002), of Albuquerque, New Mexico, surveys his life and career as a New Mexico physician. An internist, Dr. Dettweiler came to Albuquerque in 1949 and practiced continuously for forty years before his retirement in 1989. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Dettweiler's personal and professional backgrounds; the Albuquerque medical community and medical facilities of the late 1940s and 1950s; the split within the Albuquerque...
Dates: 1989 June 30

John Joseph Corcoran, Jr. oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 90
Scope and Contents This interview surveys the life and career of Dr. J. Joseph Corcoran (1913-1996) of Albuquerque, New Mexico. A specialist in dermatology, Dr. Corcoran came to Albuquerque in 1949 and practiced continuously until his retirement in 1980. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Corcoran's personal and professional backgrounds; his extensive World War II experience; his selection of Albuquerque as the site of his practice; the Albuquerque medical community and medical facilities of...
Dates: 1984 September 17

Jonathan M. Mann oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 53
Abstract This collection consists of an oral history transcript and an article which focus on the career of Jonathan Mann (1947-1998), in his ten years working in the state of New Mexico starting with his first job on assignment from the Centers for Disease Control, Bureau of Epidemiology from 1974 to 1977 and ending with his seven years working with the New Mexico Health and Environment Department as State Epidemiologist/Chief Medical Officer/Deputy Director.
Dates: 1996

Jose A. Dominguez oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 125
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Jose A. Dominguez (1909-1999), an osteopathic physician of Taos, New Mexico, focuses on his half-century medical practice in that community. A family practitioner with special interest in obstetrics and surgery, Dr. Dominguez set up his practice in Taos in 1938. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Dominguez's personal and professional backgrounds; his medical education at Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery; the focus and economics of his Taos...
Dates: 1983 November 1

Junius A. Evans oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 128
Scope and Contents This interview surveys the two careers of Dr. Junius A. Evans as a physician in New Mexico. From 1946 until 1959, Dr. Evans served a large general practice in Las Vegas, New Mexico, until serious illness forced a career change. After a residency in dermatology, Dr. Evans returned in 1962 to New Mexico, this time to Roswell, and practiced his specialty for an additional quarter century. This interview provides detailed information on both these careers, including appraisals of the physician...
Dates: 1984 April 8

Kenneth D. Gardner, Jr. oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 80
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Kenneth D. Gardner, Jr. (1929- ), a nephrologist of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a long-term faculty member of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, focuses on his career in New Mexico. Among the subjects discussed are Dr. Gardner's personal and professional background; his pioneering and innovative work at UNM-SOM as dean responsible for graduate medical school education at the school; his reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of those programs at...
Dates: 1995 March 13

Lawrence D. Barbour Sr. oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 102
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Lawrence Donald Barbour, Sr. (1908-2005), an osteopathic physician of Roswell, New Mexico, surveys his life and career. Among the subjects discussed in the interview are Dr. Barbour's personal and professional backgrounds; the nature of his practice and changes within it over forty+ years of practice; relationships between osteopaths and MDs in Roswell; the foundation and development of osteopathic hospitals in Roswell; the New Mexico Osteopathic Medical Association and...
Dates: 1991 August 10

Lawrence Hoyt Wilkinson oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 65
Abstract This forty-three page interview documents the professional career of Albuquerque surgeon Dr. Lawrence H. Wilkinson (1916-1992). Included in this collection are the final transcript and audio recordings from an oral history recorded in 1984. Also included are three news clippings pertaining to Dr. Wilkinson.
Dates: 1984

Leonard H. Akes oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 97
Scope and Contents Among the subjects discussed in this interview are the medical community of the Espanola Valley; the health and sanitation problems of the region; public health services; the increasing pressure of the federal government on medicine; continuing education; and others.

The interview dates April 23, 1989 and the collection consists of 1 audiocassette (45 min.) + 1 transcript (13 pages), correspondence, and the interviewee agreement.
Dates: 1989 April 23

Leslie L. Daviet oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 120
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Leslie L. Daviet (1911-2002), a general medicine/general surgery practitioner of Las Cruces, New Mexico, surveys his life and career. Arriving in Las Cruces in 1937, Dr. Daviet practiced 43 years in that community until his retirement in 1980. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Daviet's personal and professional backgrounds; the old-time physicians, especially Drs. Robert McBride and Charles Gerber, and the medical facilities of Las Cruces in the late...
Dates: 1987 October 30

Lloyd G. Foster oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 134
Scope and Contents This interview with Reserve (Catron County), New Mexico's Dr. Lloyd G. Foster (1908-1999), summarizes his nearly 50 years' medical practice in New Mexico. A "country doctor" in the traditional sense of the term, Dr. Foster has been the only physician in his Connecticut-size county for most of his half-century of practice. In addition to his personal and professional background, this interview surveys rural practice in an isolated setting, the special problems and rewards associated with it, and...
Dates: 1983 October 7

Melvin D. Bivens oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 107
Scope and Contents This interview summarizes the life and 30-year career at Albuquerque's Lovelace Clinic of Dr. Melvin D. Bivens (1918-1987). A board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist, Dr. Bivens came to Lovelace in 1953 and served as head of its OB/GYN department from 1957 until his retirement in 1983. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Bivens' personal and professional backgrounds; his appraisal of the operations of the Lovelace Clinic and Foundation and the major personalities involved...
Dates: 1986 May 1

Michele DeMaio oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 121
Scope and Contents This interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Michele DeMaio (1915-2004), an internist of Clovis, New Mexico. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are the old-time physicians of the Clovis region, particularly Dr. H.A. "Hal" Miller; medical facilities and the nature of practice in the region; the focus and thrust of Dr. DeMaio's practice; and others.
Dates: 1987 February 2

Milton Floersheim, Jr. oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 132
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Milton Floersheim, Jr., (1919-2000), a family practitioner who set up his private practice in Roy, New Mexico in 1946, then moved to Raton 18 months later, sheds light on both rural practice on the plains of northeastern New Mexico and on medicine and the medical community in Raton. (At the time of the interview, Dr. Floersheim had been in practice in Raton for 35 years.) Among the subjects discussed are the "old-timey" doctors of the 1920s and 1930s in Roy and Clayton,...
Dates: 1983 December 1

Oliver S. Cramer oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 118
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Oliver S. Cramer (1911-1997) of Albuquerque, New Mexico focuses on his nearly thirty years' practice of internal medicine in Albuquerque. Coming to the Lovelace Clinic first in 1941 and returning there in 1946 after military service, Dr. Cramer was a witness to the establishment of the Lovelace Medical foundation and a participant in the growth of the Clinic. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Cramer's personal and professional backgrounds; his...
Dates: 1984 October

Percy Gillette Cornish III oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 117
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. P.G. Cornish III (1929-1996), a retired general surgeon of Albuquerque, New Mexico, focuses on his father and grandfather, both also surgeons who practiced in Albuquerque. Dr. Cornish, Sr. practiced in Albuquerque from the 1890s until his death in 1932, and Dr. Cornish, Jr. from 1920 until his death in the 1950s.
Dates: 1991 January 11

Ralph P. Brower oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 108
Scope and Contents This interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Ralph P. Brower (1920-2007), an osteopathic physician of Belen, New Mexico. After medical education and internship training, Dr. Brower initially arrived in New Mexico in 1951 and practiced 10 years in Vaughn. After a brief tenure in Denver, Dr. Brower returned to New Mexico and established a practice in Belen. Among the subjects discussed in the interview are Dr. Brower's personal and professional backgrounds; the nature of his practice over...
Dates: 1993 July 14

Reginald H. Fitz oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 131
Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Reginald H. Fitz, III (1920-2013) a Dean Emeritus of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, surveys his years as founder-dean of the UNM School of Medicine. Selected as first dean of the new school in 1961 and charged with building it, Dr. Fitz spent seven years in Albuquerque and presided over the planning and preparation period leading down to the school's opening in 1964 and over its first four years of operation. In this interview, Dean Fitz summarizes the...
Dates: 1988 May 14; 1993 May 13

Reynaldo M. Deveaux oral history collection

 Series
Identifier: HHC 50
Abstract Oral history of a Mexican-trained physician who practiced in Taos, New Mexico and the surrounding county for more than forty years. The fifteen page transcript documents the professional life of Reynaldo M. Deveaux, M.D., starting with his years as a contract physician for a U.S. Farm Home Administration program in Taos County, New Mexico in 1942, and through his thirty-five years of private practice in a rural area with a large Hispanic population.
Dates: 1983-1984

Richard E. Brubaker oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: HHC 109
Scope and Contents This interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Richard E. Brubaker (1915-1990), an osteopathic physician who practiced nearly 45 years in New Mexico, predominantly in Belen. Among the subjects discussed in the interview are the personal and professional backgrounds of Dr. Brubaker; his schooling, internship, and early practice years; his use of and views on manipulative therapy; the osteopathic community in New Mexico; relationships between osteopaths and MD's and osteopaths and...
Dates: 1989 February 24

Robert Cushing Derbyshire oral history collection

 Series
Identifier: HHC 56
Abstract This collection contains the final transcript and two audio tapes of an oral history with Dr. Robert Cushing Derbyshire (1910-1987), an active physician in New Mexico for over 33 years. Also contains memorial clippings and a copy of the eulogy read at Dr. Derbyshire's funeral.
Dates: 1983