Folks I'm working with

At this point in my life in addition to our labor of love with family, I'm spending quite a bit of time where my professional career began; the halls of the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine. My class picture hangs in the hall upstairs reminding me of how I as well as my classmates looked back in 1968. I have given you snippets of vet school memories for the past few years, but now I am spending more time there than not for a few months, while they work to replenish their faculty roles. They have built on to the facility which caused me some confusion at first, but I have been able to wander the halls enough to pretty much find my way around. It is really interesting to walk down new hallways, then turn a corner and have the mid 60's hit me in the face as I recognize a door, window or crack in the marble stairs. Today I called Georgia from the courtyard. It is really a great outdoor space that was the parking lot between the main building and the clinic. While I was talking with her I reminded her that I was standing very near the spot where she turned our old Comet into the parking space just as the right front wheel fell off... Literally; it fell off!. Having been in student mode for 5 years at that point, that put us in a real financial pickle, but honestly, I don't remember how we got out of that one.
I didn't start this to talk about my memories, but to introduce you to some of the great people I am working with. If you have read past posts, you know that I have introduced you to pretty much all the folks I worked with closely except for those at Ohio State. Sorry Buckeyes, It just slipped my mind to get the pictures.Maybe I also missed the folks at Michigan State also... I need to check that. OK, maybe Tennessee too. I really need to review. Anyway, here is the technical staff of the Purdue Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging Unit. Donna, Jessica, Christy, Kelly, Jeannine, and Liane (They will probably let me know if I spelled their names incorrectly). Although the trappings have changed, the spot where the ladies are sitting in the first 2 pictures is the spot where I put up and took down films as a work-study student working for my mentor Dr. Robert E. Lewis in 1966-68. Some of you know that I am working on a book with one of my past residents. I have decided to dedicate my efforts on this book to Dr. Lewis, seeing he gave me most of my professional thought processes. At least the sound ones!!!

Dr. HG Heng, the present leader of the group wasn't available when I was taking pictures, but I had a great surprise. In the following pictures, you will see the present Purdue imaging residents Dr. Jeff Ruth, Dr. Matt Jones, and Dr. David DeMeo (an Illinois graduate). The first picture of these guys is of rather poor quality, probably because the photographer (me) was shaking the camera. In the others however, you will notice a 4th young man. This is Dr. Chris MacKay, presently at Colorado State. Here's the surprise. If you go back to my post of August 15,2009, you will see that smiling face when I was working at Washington State University and Chris was just beginning his residency program. Now he is a board certified radiologist working at Colorado State University and came to fill in with me last week at Purdue. Ain't that great??? What a joy!
One more tidbit. The room with all the monitors where they guys are sitting is actually the room that was Dr. Lewis' office when he was at Purdue. OK, I decided to add a couple of pictures of the courtyard at the bottom. Enjoy. skk
Remember, you should be able to click on the pictures to see larger versions. Nuf for now!