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Harry Gregory Golan
OBITUARY HARRY
H
GREGORY
GOLAN
GREGORY NOLAN was born in Russia on &Iay 21, 1901, and came to the United States at the age of nine. He died at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 24, 1961, after an operation. Dr. Golan graduated with honors from the College of the City of New I’ork and received his M.D. degree from the l,ong Island College Hospital Medical School in 1929. He interned for 2 years at Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y.. and began a general practice in medicine in 1931. He soon recognized the importance of allergy in the field of medicine and, in 1.932, joined the Allergy Staff of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital at a time when that departmcnt in its laboratories was beginning to make basic contributions to our knowledge of allergy. l)r. Golan became one of the earliest, if not the first, physician in the Borough of Queens, an area even then havin g a population of over l,OOO,OOO, to devote most of his practice to allergy. He became a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and of the subspecialty, Allergy. Hc was a F’cllow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Academy of Sllergy, and a Fellow of the American College of Allergists. Hc was Chief of Allergy at Wyckoff Heights Hospital, an Adjunct dttending in Allergy at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, an Associate Attending in Medicine at the Queens General Medical Center, and founder and past president of the board of trustees of Terrace Heights Hospital in Queens. Dr. Golan extended his interests beyond the boundaries of medical 1jraetic.e. He took an active part in the He was an intimate student of the Bible. administrative affairs of his county and state medical societies, having served on various committees, the Comitia Minora, and as an altcrnatc delegate to the House of Delegates of the Medical Society of the St,atc of New York. He participated actively in the philanthropic affairs of his community whcrcl hc was chairman and honorary chairman of the Queens Physician Division of t,he United Jewish Appeal. He was a memhcr of the Ph\-sicians Square Clul) and one of its past Superior Sublime Healers. or. Golan was gentle in spirit, wcr ttlou&tfnl of his patients, and devoted to his colleagues. To his wife, Lillian, his son, Marshal. and his daughters, Mrs. Ronald Linskp and ?tlrs. ?Jcal Raff, we extend our sympathy. x. s. s. -4RRy
H
GREGORY
GOLAN
GREGORY NOLAN was born in Russia on &Iay 21, 1901, and came to the United States at the age of nine. He died at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 24, 1961, after an operation. Dr. Golan graduated with honors from the College of the City of New I’ork and received his M.D. degree from the l,ong Island College Hospital Medical School in 1929. He interned for 2 years at Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y.. and began a general practice in medicine in 1931. He soon recognized the importance of allergy in the field of medicine and, in 1.932, joined the Allergy Staff of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital at a time when that departmcnt in its laboratories was beginning to make basic contributions to our knowledge of allergy. l)r. Golan became one of the earliest, if not the first, physician in the Borough of Queens, an area even then havin g a population of over l,OOO,OOO, to devote most of his practice to allergy. He became a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and of the subspecialty, Allergy. Hc was a F’cllow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Academy of Sllergy, and a Fellow of the American College of Allergists. Hc was Chief of Allergy at Wyckoff Heights Hospital, an Adjunct dttending in Allergy at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, an Associate Attending in Medicine at the Queens General Medical Center, and founder and past president of the board of trustees of Terrace Heights Hospital in Queens. Dr. Golan extended his interests beyond the boundaries of medical 1jraetic.e. He took an active part in the He was an intimate student of the Bible. administrative affairs of his county and state medical societies, having served on various committees, the Comitia Minora, and as an altcrnatc delegate to the House of Delegates of the Medical Society of the St,atc of New York. He participated actively in the philanthropic affairs of his community whcrcl hc was chairman and honorary chairman of the Queens Physician Division of t,he United Jewish Appeal. He was a memhcr of the Ph\-sicians Square Clul) and one of its past Superior Sublime Healers. or. Golan was gentle in spirit, wcr ttlou&tfnl of his patients, and devoted to his colleagues. To his wife, Lillian, his son, Marshal. and his daughters, Mrs. Ronald Linskp and ?tlrs. ?Jcal Raff, we extend our sympathy. x. s. s. -4RRy