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Hail and Farewell
Early in 1972 when my retirement as Chief of Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago was rapidly approaching I had decided to leave Chicago and move to the Smokey Mountains in N o r t h Carolina. 1 began to wonder what I would do with myself, l realized that I could not sit in a rocking chair on the front porch and watch the world go by. I could not tolerate complete inactivity. For many years I had been associated with the Journal of Neurosurgery, first on the Editorial Board and later as Publisher. That journal was at that time not only the leading neurosurgical journal but practically the only such journal published in the English language. I realized that it had a large backlog of unpublished manuscripts. T h e r e were also a number o f things worth doing that it did not do. It seldom published historical material, including biographical articles about those who had contributed materially to our field. It did not publish editorials about what was and what was not being done in neurological surgery. It published relatively few papers from outside the United States and Canada. As neurological surgery was expanding and developing in other countries there was much being done there and papers waiting to be published in English. Furthermore, since 1944 when the Journal of Neurosurgery had first appeared the number of neurological surgeons in the United States had increased dramatically. I decided to produce a new journal and to call it SURGICALNEUROLOGY. It would attempt to fill the needs that existed. As English had become the "lingua franca" of neurological surgery throughout the world I decided that it would be published in English. From the beginning my able and loyal secretary, Rose R. Lotz, agreed to become a partner in this new venture. For years she had been active in the publishing of the Journal of Neurosurgery. She had enthusiastically agreed to move with Mrs. Bucy and me to N o r t h Carolina. In Tryon, N o r t h Carolina we found an apartment suitable for her home and for the office o f our new journal. The first issue o f SURGICAL NEUROLOGY appeared in January 1973. It soon became apparent that SURGICAL NEUROLOGY could be an international journal, publishing papers from all over the world. It also was obvious that I would need an Editorial Board to help with the selection o f papers to be published. Dr. RobertJ. White of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland was © 1985 by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.
the first Associate Editor to be chosen. H e is now CoEditor of SURGICAL NEUROLOGY and has always been o f great help and a loyal supporter. It also was apparent that we would need others with competence in other neurosurgical disciplines to join with us. All o f them are able general neurosurgeons, but each is an expert in one or more other branches of neurological surgery. Gradually we added Dr. Harry M. Zimmerman from The Bronx, N e w York, in neuropathology; Dr. Eben Alexander, Jr., who was then Chief o f Neurosurgery at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who was an expert on disorders of the cervical spine; Dr. A. L. Rhoton o f the University of Florida, who was expert in neuroanatomy as it applied to neurological surgery, and in microsurgery; Dr. Harold F. Young of the Medical College of Virginia, an expert on neurosurgical trauma and vascular disease; Dr. Harold F. Hoffman of the University of T o r o n t o and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a pediatric neurosurgeon; Dr. Franklin C. Wagner, Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, Davis (he had been a resident in my training program and had worked with Dr. Robert White; his special field is the pathology of the injured spinal cord and its treatment); Dr. M.S. Mahaley, Jr., Head of Neurosurgery at the University o f North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N o r t h Carolina, whose major interest is the treatment o f neoplasms of the central nervous system; and Dr. Peter E. Weinberg, an expert neuroradiologist who had been associated with me at Northwestern University in Chicago. Later we added Dr. Mario Brock in West Berlin, Germany, to help us with European papers, and Dr. Hajime Handa, Head of Neurosurgery at Kyoto University in Japan, to be of assistance with Japanese papers. We also added 21 neurological surgeons throughout the world as Editorial Consultants. Initially I served as both Editor and Publisher of SURGICAL NEUROLOGY. In 1979 we sold the publishing to Little, Brown and Company of Boston. Thereafter they were responsible for the printing and for the solicitation o f subscriptions and advertising. In 1983 they in turn sold the publishing o f SURGICAL NEUROLOGY to Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc. Time has now come for me to retire again. Dr. Eben Alexander, Jr. of Winston-Salem, North Carolina will 0090-3019•85/$ 3.30
Hail and Farewell
b e c o m e the Editor of SURGICAL NEUROLOGY on January 1, 1986. I wish him every success and hope that he enjoys his work and responsibility as I have. Y o u may ask what I propose to do. Although over the years Mrs. Bucy (Evelyn) and I have traveled extensively throughout the world, we now propose to travel m o r e but in a m o r e leisurely manner. In January 1985 I published a book, Neurosurgical Giants: Feet of Clay and Iron. It has met with an enthusiastic reception and
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is now in its second printing. I am now preparing another book, to be called Modern Neurosurgical Giants, which will carry on where the first volume ended. We (Evelyn and I) are contemplating a book on our travels, which began in 1930. It will be concerned with the various amusing, exciting, and unusual happenings we have experienced.
Adios mis amigos. PAUL C. BUCY, M.D.
Surg Neurol 1985;24:686-7
Hail and Farewell
Early in 1972 when my retirement as Chief of Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago was rapidly approaching I had decided to leave Chicago and move to the Smokey Mountains in N o r t h Carolina. 1 began to wonder what I would do with myself, l realized that I could not sit in a rocking chair on the front porch and watch the world go by. I could not tolerate complete inactivity. For many years I had been associated with the Journal of Neurosurgery, first on the Editorial Board and later as Publisher. That journal was at that time not only the leading neurosurgical journal but practically the only such journal published in the English language. I realized that it had a large backlog of unpublished manuscripts. T h e r e were also a number o f things worth doing that it did not do. It seldom published historical material, including biographical articles about those who had contributed materially to our field. It did not publish editorials about what was and what was not being done in neurological surgery. It published relatively few papers from outside the United States and Canada. As neurological surgery was expanding and developing in other countries there was much being done there and papers waiting to be published in English. Furthermore, since 1944 when the Journal of Neurosurgery had first appeared the number of neurological surgeons in the United States had increased dramatically. I decided to produce a new journal and to call it SURGICALNEUROLOGY. It would attempt to fill the needs that existed. As English had become the "lingua franca" of neurological surgery throughout the world I decided that it would be published in English. From the beginning my able and loyal secretary, Rose R. Lotz, agreed to become a partner in this new venture. For years she had been active in the publishing of the Journal of Neurosurgery. She had enthusiastically agreed to move with Mrs. Bucy and me to N o r t h Carolina. In Tryon, N o r t h Carolina we found an apartment suitable for her home and for the office o f our new journal. The first issue o f SURGICAL NEUROLOGY appeared in January 1973. It soon became apparent that SURGICAL NEUROLOGY could be an international journal, publishing papers from all over the world. It also was obvious that I would need an Editorial Board to help with the selection o f papers to be published. Dr. RobertJ. White of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland was © 1985 by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.
the first Associate Editor to be chosen. H e is now CoEditor of SURGICAL NEUROLOGY and has always been o f great help and a loyal supporter. It also was apparent that we would need others with competence in other neurosurgical disciplines to join with us. All o f them are able general neurosurgeons, but each is an expert in one or more other branches of neurological surgery. Gradually we added Dr. Harry M. Zimmerman from The Bronx, N e w York, in neuropathology; Dr. Eben Alexander, Jr., who was then Chief o f Neurosurgery at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who was an expert on disorders of the cervical spine; Dr. A. L. Rhoton o f the University of Florida, who was expert in neuroanatomy as it applied to neurological surgery, and in microsurgery; Dr. Harold F. Young of the Medical College of Virginia, an expert on neurosurgical trauma and vascular disease; Dr. Harold F. Hoffman of the University of T o r o n t o and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a pediatric neurosurgeon; Dr. Franklin C. Wagner, Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, Davis (he had been a resident in my training program and had worked with Dr. Robert White; his special field is the pathology of the injured spinal cord and its treatment); Dr. M.S. Mahaley, Jr., Head of Neurosurgery at the University o f North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N o r t h Carolina, whose major interest is the treatment o f neoplasms of the central nervous system; and Dr. Peter E. Weinberg, an expert neuroradiologist who had been associated with me at Northwestern University in Chicago. Later we added Dr. Mario Brock in West Berlin, Germany, to help us with European papers, and Dr. Hajime Handa, Head of Neurosurgery at Kyoto University in Japan, to be of assistance with Japanese papers. We also added 21 neurological surgeons throughout the world as Editorial Consultants. Initially I served as both Editor and Publisher of SURGICAL NEUROLOGY. In 1979 we sold the publishing to Little, Brown and Company of Boston. Thereafter they were responsible for the printing and for the solicitation o f subscriptions and advertising. In 1983 they in turn sold the publishing o f SURGICAL NEUROLOGY to Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc. Time has now come for me to retire again. Dr. Eben Alexander, Jr. of Winston-Salem, North Carolina will 0090-3019•85/$ 3.30
Hail and Farewell
b e c o m e the Editor of SURGICAL NEUROLOGY on January 1, 1986. I wish him every success and hope that he enjoys his work and responsibility as I have. Y o u may ask what I propose to do. Although over the years Mrs. Bucy (Evelyn) and I have traveled extensively throughout the world, we now propose to travel m o r e but in a m o r e leisurely manner. In January 1985 I published a book, Neurosurgical Giants: Feet of Clay and Iron. It has met with an enthusiastic reception and
Surg Neurol 1985:24:686-7
687
is now in its second printing. I am now preparing another book, to be called Modern Neurosurgical Giants, which will carry on where the first volume ended. We (Evelyn and I) are contemplating a book on our travels, which began in 1930. It will be concerned with the various amusing, exciting, and unusual happenings we have experienced.
Adios mis amigos. PAUL C. BUCY, M.D.