Fall/Winter 2006 - University of Rochester Medical Center

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MD Alumni
Christopher Cove, M.D. (R ’89, FLW ’89), discovered photography through a grandfather who
“tortured” the family into looking at his photos. Cove recalls that he was the only kid actually interested.
He bought his first camera in college. He took a camera along with him after medical school to
Africa, where he worked for three months in a missionary hospital. His photographs from Africa made
him want to improve his skills. But after a few years, he sold his equipment, including his darkroom,
to help put together a down payment on his first house. The possibilities provided by digital photography
made him pick up a camera again. Cove, now assistant director of the cardiac catheterization
lab and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is primarily
a nature photographer. “My photography gets me outside, tromping around and discovering new
things,” Cove says. “It’s more than a hobby. I want to sell my photographs but I don’t need to. I want
people to see my work.” His photographs are on display in the catheterization lab, Strong Memorial
Hospital’s cardiac rehabilitation unit and in the hallways of Strong’s seventh floor.
Class of 1944
Stuart Finch writes, “Bob Coon is a distinguished
member of our class whose career
is difficult to summarize because of the many
impressive positions he has held and many
awards he has received over the years.
After pathology training at the University of
Rochester and at Grady Hospital, in Atlanta,
assignment as a U.S. Navy officer at the
Naval Hospital in Newport, R.I., and two years
of additional pathology fellowship training
at the University of Rochester, Bob assumed
faculty positions at Columbia University
Medical School and appointments at
Presbyterian Hospital in New York from 1949 to
1955. He then was appointed professor and
chairman of the Department of Pathology at
the University of Vermont, a position he held
until 1973. He was president of the American
Society of Clinical Pathologists from 1958 to
1965; assistant chancellor for health science
education for the University of Maine from
1973–75; dean of the proposed Maine School
of Medicine 1974–75; dean of the School of
Medicine for Marshall University in
Huntington, W.Va., from 1976–1985. During the
past 10 years, Bob has had many volunteer
positions in both West Virginia and Vermont
for such organizations as United Way,
Salvation Army, American Red Cross,
American Cancer Society and the American
Association of Retired Persons. In the 1980s,
Bob received honorary degrees from the
University of Vermont, North Dakota State
University and Marshall University.
“Bill Clark sent me a wonderful letter
detailing Pat’s close association with Wells
College and the recent honoring of her with
the naming of one of the laboratory-discussion
rooms in a new science building at Wells
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