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Lewis Wendell Hackett, M.D., DR.P.H.
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OBITUARY LEWIS WENDELL HACKETT, M.D., DR.P.H.
Dr. L~ W. Hackett was born in California seventy-seven years ago. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1929, and for nine years served as a Local Secretary. After his retirement from the Associate Directorship of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, he returned to the State of his birth to enjoy the sunset of his life in Berkeley. As an arch foe of malaria he had worked valiantly for nearly fifty years to free thousands of acres of fertile land in Italy, Albania, Greece, Egypt and South America, from anopheline mosquitoes, and so open up great areas for farming and for healthful living. For this work of inestimable importance he was honoured by Kings and Presidents and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1951. Among the awards and medals conferred upon him the one perhaps dearest to his heart was the Walter Reed Medal presented to him by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This Society he had served well as Councillor, as Editor-in-chief of its Journal, and as its inspiring President. Though ostensibly retired, Dr. Hackett was most active during his last years as Visiting Professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health of the University of California in Berkeley where both students and faculty will long remember him for his fascinating tales of his early years in Public Health work and for his outstanding humanity. They and his many friends in Berkeley, as well as those who came to visit him from the far corners of the earth, will cherish fond memories of the delightful hospitality that he dispensed in his charming home on Hillcrest Road, filled with the treasures gathered on his many travels. Dr. Hackett derived deep pleasure from music and was interested in all things that add to the enjoyment of life. Miss Wenyon still delights in telling of his teaching her to make real American strawberry shortcake, and recent visitors from Britain will remember the gusto with which he prepared " Cherries Jubilee " for them I Last year during several months in Europe Dr. Hackett revisited the scenes of past labours, renewed old friendships and visited godchildren and war orphans whose lives he had brightened. This June he had planned to attend the fiftieth reunion of his class at the Harvard Medical School and to visit old friends in New England. We have lost not only a brilliant administrator and ardent worker in the fields of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, but " a good man who did good things." FLORENCE M. FROST.
OBITUARY LEWIS WENDELL HACKETT, M.D., DR.P.H.
Dr. L~ W. Hackett was born in California seventy-seven years ago. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1929, and for nine years served as a Local Secretary. After his retirement from the Associate Directorship of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, he returned to the State of his birth to enjoy the sunset of his life in Berkeley. As an arch foe of malaria he had worked valiantly for nearly fifty years to free thousands of acres of fertile land in Italy, Albania, Greece, Egypt and South America, from anopheline mosquitoes, and so open up great areas for farming and for healthful living. For this work of inestimable importance he was honoured by Kings and Presidents and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1951. Among the awards and medals conferred upon him the one perhaps dearest to his heart was the Walter Reed Medal presented to him by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This Society he had served well as Councillor, as Editor-in-chief of its Journal, and as its inspiring President. Though ostensibly retired, Dr. Hackett was most active during his last years as Visiting Professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health of the University of California in Berkeley where both students and faculty will long remember him for his fascinating tales of his early years in Public Health work and for his outstanding humanity. They and his many friends in Berkeley, as well as those who came to visit him from the far corners of the earth, will cherish fond memories of the delightful hospitality that he dispensed in his charming home on Hillcrest Road, filled with the treasures gathered on his many travels. Dr. Hackett derived deep pleasure from music and was interested in all things that add to the enjoyment of life. Miss Wenyon still delights in telling of his teaching her to make real American strawberry shortcake, and recent visitors from Britain will remember the gusto with which he prepared " Cherries Jubilee " for them I Last year during several months in Europe Dr. Hackett revisited the scenes of past labours, renewed old friendships and visited godchildren and war orphans whose lives he had brightened. This June he had planned to attend the fiftieth reunion of his class at the Harvard Medical School and to visit old friends in New England. We have lost not only a brilliant administrator and ardent worker in the fields of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, but " a good man who did good things." FLORENCE M. FROST.