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Rudolf L. Mayer
JOSEPH
J. ARMINIO
J. ARMINIO of Ossining, N. Y., died on Jan. 17, 1962, at the age of 49 years. Dr. Arminio received his premedical education at Manhattan Callege and was awarded the M.D. degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1938. He interned at the Grasslands Hospital, Valhalla, N. Y., and followed this by a residency in medicine there and a post-graduate residency at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital, New York City. He received his allergy training at the Grasslands Hospital and held a teaching appointment in allergy at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital from 1943-1945. He was appointed to the staff of the Ossining Hospital in 1942 which later consolidated and became the Phelps ,Memorial Hospital. He was a member of t,he Active Attending Staff in Medicine (Allergy), General Practice Division, from 1954 until his death. Dr. Arminio was a member of the New York State Medical Society, American Medical Association, American College of Allergy, and American Academy of Allergy. He is survived by his wife and three children.
J
OSEPH
RUDOLF
L. MAYER
L. MAYER died on June 23, 1962. His life and career were ones of great professional achievement, culture, and nobility of spirit. Colmar, France, was his birthplace in 1895. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Freiburg in 1920 and a. degree in chemistry at the University of Berlin in 1925. At the same time he received training in pharmacology. In the meantime he became interested in dermatology, and the decade of 1923-1933 was spent as Assistant Professor of Dermatology at. the I!nivcrsit,y of Breslau, where he chiefly concentrated on biochemistry. The years 1933-1942 were spent in research at the Rhone-Poulonc firm in Paris and Lyon, first as research biologist, then as head of the Chemotherapeut,ic and Bacteriologic Research Laboratories. From 1943 to 1959 he was associated with Ciba Pharmaceuticals, Summit, N. ,J., becoming t,he head of a.n
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extensive division of microbiology. From 1959 until his final illness he found great satisfaction in working at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology as a member of the staff of the Leonard Wood Memorial Fund for the Eradication of Leprosy. Dr. Mayer’s 200 or more papers and monographs on original work clearly identify him as a brilliant and versatile scientist. His 1921-1928 period dealt with pharmacological subjects. In 1928 he published his first paper on allergy (to atropine), which initiated a period of productive work on allergy, particularly as related to the skin, which was largely experimental. This included such subjects as p-phenylenediamine allergy, problems in neoarsphenamine hypersensitivity, allergy to hair dyes, influence of diet on experimental hypersensitivity in animals, and influence of season on skin disorders. Then emphasis shifted to chemotherapy, the sulfonamides and chemotherapy of tuberculosis. His discovery of tripelennamine was preceded and followed by a study of other amines and finally by a concentration on experimental work in chemotherapy of tuberculosis and leprosy. It was in the latter phase of his endeavors that he was diligently engaged when calamity struck him. Rudolf Mayer was a charter member of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the American Academy of Allergy, New York Academy of Science, Society of Investigative Dermatology, Royal Society of Medicine (London), and others. But all this gives only a brief statistical account of the man. To those of us who were privileged to be his close friends his sterling human qualities are those we shall most remember. Always kind, always gentle and considerate, hospitable, liberal with his time and ideas if they were of help to others, always humorous and fun-loving, a lover of the arts and collector of works of art, wielding his own brush in a deserving manner when the spirit moved him-he was the kind of man with whom an evening or days spent with him at a convention or on a vacation was a most happy and satisfying experience. The writer knew him and his wife, Catherine, well. While expressing my personal and the Academy’s sorrow to Catherine and Rudy’s many friends, it must be added that a person of the qualities of Rudy Mayer never dies. His influence, professional and Many of us will always remember him. human, have so affected the lives of many that it will endure and perpetuate itself even to future generations. Like a great book which does not die after being written, Rudolf Mayer’s spirit will live on forever. S. M.
JAMES
MILTON
F.
STEELE
STEELE of Sayre, Pa., died on Nov. 30, 1961, while in Philadelphia to attend the Third Annual Conference on Graduate Medical Education. AMES MILTON
J
J. ARMINIO
J. ARMINIO of Ossining, N. Y., died on Jan. 17, 1962, at the age of 49 years. Dr. Arminio received his premedical education at Manhattan Callege and was awarded the M.D. degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1938. He interned at the Grasslands Hospital, Valhalla, N. Y., and followed this by a residency in medicine there and a post-graduate residency at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital, New York City. He received his allergy training at the Grasslands Hospital and held a teaching appointment in allergy at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital from 1943-1945. He was appointed to the staff of the Ossining Hospital in 1942 which later consolidated and became the Phelps ,Memorial Hospital. He was a member of t,he Active Attending Staff in Medicine (Allergy), General Practice Division, from 1954 until his death. Dr. Arminio was a member of the New York State Medical Society, American Medical Association, American College of Allergy, and American Academy of Allergy. He is survived by his wife and three children.
J
OSEPH
RUDOLF
L. MAYER
L. MAYER died on June 23, 1962. His life and career were ones of great professional achievement, culture, and nobility of spirit. Colmar, France, was his birthplace in 1895. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Freiburg in 1920 and a. degree in chemistry at the University of Berlin in 1925. At the same time he received training in pharmacology. In the meantime he became interested in dermatology, and the decade of 1923-1933 was spent as Assistant Professor of Dermatology at. the I!nivcrsit,y of Breslau, where he chiefly concentrated on biochemistry. The years 1933-1942 were spent in research at the Rhone-Poulonc firm in Paris and Lyon, first as research biologist, then as head of the Chemotherapeut,ic and Bacteriologic Research Laboratories. From 1943 to 1959 he was associated with Ciba Pharmaceuticals, Summit, N. ,J., becoming t,he head of a.n
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UDOLPH
185
JOURNAL
186
OF ALLERGY
J. Allergy March-April, 1963
extensive division of microbiology. From 1959 until his final illness he found great satisfaction in working at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology as a member of the staff of the Leonard Wood Memorial Fund for the Eradication of Leprosy. Dr. Mayer’s 200 or more papers and monographs on original work clearly identify him as a brilliant and versatile scientist. His 1921-1928 period dealt with pharmacological subjects. In 1928 he published his first paper on allergy (to atropine), which initiated a period of productive work on allergy, particularly as related to the skin, which was largely experimental. This included such subjects as p-phenylenediamine allergy, problems in neoarsphenamine hypersensitivity, allergy to hair dyes, influence of diet on experimental hypersensitivity in animals, and influence of season on skin disorders. Then emphasis shifted to chemotherapy, the sulfonamides and chemotherapy of tuberculosis. His discovery of tripelennamine was preceded and followed by a study of other amines and finally by a concentration on experimental work in chemotherapy of tuberculosis and leprosy. It was in the latter phase of his endeavors that he was diligently engaged when calamity struck him. Rudolf Mayer was a charter member of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the American Academy of Allergy, New York Academy of Science, Society of Investigative Dermatology, Royal Society of Medicine (London), and others. But all this gives only a brief statistical account of the man. To those of us who were privileged to be his close friends his sterling human qualities are those we shall most remember. Always kind, always gentle and considerate, hospitable, liberal with his time and ideas if they were of help to others, always humorous and fun-loving, a lover of the arts and collector of works of art, wielding his own brush in a deserving manner when the spirit moved him-he was the kind of man with whom an evening or days spent with him at a convention or on a vacation was a most happy and satisfying experience. The writer knew him and his wife, Catherine, well. While expressing my personal and the Academy’s sorrow to Catherine and Rudy’s many friends, it must be added that a person of the qualities of Rudy Mayer never dies. His influence, professional and Many of us will always remember him. human, have so affected the lives of many that it will endure and perpetuate itself even to future generations. Like a great book which does not die after being written, Rudolf Mayer’s spirit will live on forever. S. M.
JAMES
MILTON
F.
STEELE
STEELE of Sayre, Pa., died on Nov. 30, 1961, while in Philadelphia to attend the Third Annual Conference on Graduate Medical Education. AMES MILTON
J