Faylon M. Brunemeier, MD’55, died peacefully at his home on June 28 following a long illness. He was 89. He was born on June 15, 1925, in Hubbard, Iowa, the son of Dr. Edward Herman Brunemeier and Cora Minch Brunemeier, who were medical missionaries in China on furlough in the U.S. that year. In 1943, he entered the U.S. Army Air Force aviation cadet program, where he was given the nickname “Brunie.” He served as a bombardier on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in the U.S. 8th Air Force in England and was discharged in 1946. Brunemeier graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1955. While an intern at the University of Minnesota Hospitals, he met Dorothy Johnson, and they married in 1956. After he completed a three-year residency in
ophthalmology at the University of Chicago in 1959, the couple settled in Redding, California, where he practiced medicine until retiring in 1996. Brunemeier was preceded in death by one son, and is survived by his wife of 58 years, two sons, one daughter and seven grandchildren. Clifford W. Gurney, MD’51, SB’48, passed away on April 10, a day before his 90th birthday. Gurney attended the University of Chicago for both college and medical school, and completed his residency at the University of Michigan. He returned to the University of Chicago in 1956 to teach biology and genetics, remaining a professor in the Department of Medicine until 1966. After his departure from the University in 1966, Gurney served as a professor of medicine at the University of Kansas
and Rutgers University before returning to the University of Chicago in 1972, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Doris, their five children and numerous grandchildren. Marcus Amram Jacobson, MD’57, a clinical psychiatrist, died January 9 in Washington, D.C. He was 89. After living in hiding in Belgium during World War II, Jacobson immigrated to the United States with his family and received a Rutgers University fellowship. An avid traveler, he coauthored “Hospitalization and Discharge of the Mentally Ill” (1968). Survivors include his wife, Evelyne; three children, including Lyn Beer, U-High’69; a brother, Manfred R. Jacobson, AB’60, AM’66, PhD’72; and six grandchildren. Anatol H. “Harry” Oleynick, MD’56, a neurologist, died February 19 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was 83. After serving in the Army Medical Corps and rising to captain, Oleynick opened a
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Gebhard Friedrich Schumacher, MD ebhard Friedrich Schumacher, MD, professor emeritus in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a former section chief of reproductive biology at the University of Chicago, died at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Illinois, on March 31. He was 89. A pioneer in the fields of infertility, contraception and the immunology of reproduction, Schumacher developed new methods to detect and quantify soluble proteins in very small volumes of biological fluids or in tissue samples. He established the first reproductive biology program at the University and, working with a medical student, designed and patented a device, the volumetric vaginal aspirator, to collect fluids used to distinguish between the fertile and infertile phases of the human female menstrual cycle. Schumacher was born June 13, 1924, in Osnabrück, Germany, and grew up in Paderborn. He intended to study medicine, but World War II interrupted his plans. He was drafted into the German army in 1942. In 1945 he was captured by the Allied forces and spent the last few months of the conflict in a British prisoner-of-war camp. In September 1945, Schumacher began medical school at the University of Göttingen. He completed an award-winning thesis on the use of gel electrophoresis to separate serum proteins and received his medical degree in 1951. After postdoctoral training with Nobel laureate Adolf Butenandt and a year at the Max Planck Institute for Virus
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Research, he entered a residency program in obstetrics at the University of Tübingen. In 1963, Schumacher accepted a one-year position as an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago. At the University he worked with a team of renowned cytopathologists to study the influence of sex steroids on proteins present in cervical mucus — a topic that would dominate the rest of his career. He was recruited back to the University of Chicago in 1967. He was able to secure funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Ford Foundation to create a new section of reproductive biology within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was named chief of the new section in 1971, promoted to professor of obstetrics and gynecology in 1973 and was named to the divisional committee on immunology in 1974. In the 1970s and 1980s, Schumacher served on three World Health Organization task forces related to reproductive issues. He remained active in research throughout his career, publishing 85 academic papers and 55 book chapters and conference proceedings. He took emeritus status in 1990. He is survived by his wife, two sons and two grandchildren. Donations in Schumacher’s honor can be made to the Medical & Biological Sciences Alumni Annual Fund in his name.
private practice and served on the staff of the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. A clinical associate professor of neurology at the University of Maryland Medical School for 50 years, he consulted for the Social Security Administration Disability Program and the Veterans Administration. Survivors include his wife, Laurel; two sons; and four grandchildren. Willard J. Visek, MD’57, PhD, of Champaign, Illinois, died March 31. He was 91. A World War II veteran, Visek was an assistant professor of pharmacology at UChicago early in his career. He later taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he retired as professor emeritus of internal medicine in 1993. Editor of the Journal of Nutrition, Visek received the Osborne and Mendel Award from the American Institute of Nutrition for his research on ammonia and protein metabolism in 1985 and the Medical and Biological Sciences Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Award in 1997. Survivors include his wife, Priscilla; two daughters; a son; and six grandchildren. Harvey Ford Zartman, MD’53, AB’48, SB’49, of Anchorage, Alaska, died on February 8. He was 86. Ever since he knew what a doctor was, Zartman was determined to be one, and he graduated at the top of his class at the University of Chicago in medical school. The U.S. Air Force took him to Alaska, where he met the wonder of his life, Donata. In 1959, after serving in the military, he relocated to Anchorage to join two other pediatricians in an established medical practice in the newly admitted state of Alaska. The hours were long and hard, as they were the only pediatricians in the state. Zartman cared for generations of families for more than 45 years. Patients felt “when Dr. Zartman closed the door, you felt like you were the only person in the world.” He sacrificed much to serve many and was a gentle, sweet Dad, a devoted husband and a generous friend.
1960s Donald E. Goldstone, MD’61, died March 1 in Washington, D.C. He was 77. Goldstone headed the Peace Corps medical program in Latin America before helping shape national health care policy at the National Center for Health Services Research during three presidential administrations. During that time, he was also a member of the federal Senior Executive Service (SES). As part of the SES, he directed data collection and analysis for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He is survived by his wife, Martha; three sons; a stepmother; a brother; and three grandsons.
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