Obituaries

Joseph L. Campo, 68, clinical instructor of medicine
A Mass of Christian Burial was held May 13 in St. Benedict's Catholic Church, Eggertsville, for Joseph L. Campo, a specialist in internal medicine who served as a clinical instructor in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Campo died May 10 in Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, after a long illness. He was 68.

A founder, past president and former chief of medicine at St. Joseph Hospital, Cheektowaga, Campo had a private practice in internal medicine in Cheektowaga for 32 years. He retired in 1994 because of failing health.

He graduated after only two years at Niagara Falls High School and completed his undergraduate studies at UB in two years. Campo served in the army as a medic for two years, before attending the UB medical school, graduating in 1954.

He was among a group of physicians who founded St. Joseph Intercommunity Hospital, now St. Joseph Hospital, in 1960, serving as president of the medical staff in 1970 and chief of medicine from 1976 to 1986 at no salary. In 1992 Campo received the Caritas Award from St. Joseph Hospital for his long and dedicated service.

Assistant attending physician at Deaconess Hospital from 1958 until it closed in 1985, Campo was also on the staff of Millard Fillmore, Buffalo General and Kenmore Mercy hospitals.

He was a member of the Western New York Society of Internal Medicine, the New York State Society of Internal Medicine and an honorary member of the American Society of Internal Medicine. He was a former chairman of the ethics committee of the Erie County Medical Society and the executive nomination committee of the Medical Society of New York State.


Livingston Gearhart, 79, music professor, pianist, composer
A service will be held at UB this fall celebrating the life of Livingston Gearhart, a retired music professor who was a composer and concert pianist who made many recordings over the course of his career. Gearhart died July 14 in his home after a brief illness.

Gearhart, who studied with internationally known teachers in the U.S. and Paris, began his studies in 1935, after a season as first oboe with the Newark, N.J., Civic Opera, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied piano with Nadia Reinsenberg, oboe under Marcel Tabuteau and composition under Rosario Scalero.

In 1936, he won the Griffith Award in piano in Newark and in 1938 he won the first prize in a composition competition in Fontainebleau, France.

From 1937-39, when Gearhart made his debut as a concert pianist in Europe, he studied composition in France with Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky, piano with Robert Casedesus and Isidor Philipp and musicology with Darius Milhaud. After completing his studies with Milhaud in 1941 at Mills College in California, Gearhart gave his first New York City piano concert.

He played 2,000 engagements in the U.S. and Canada during the next 13 years. Over a period of two decades, he made several hundred radio and TV appearances, as a soloist on the Fred Waring Show, for which he arranged music, and recorded for Decca and Columbia Masterworks. In 1959, his published choral, instrumental and band compositions and arrangements reached the million mark.

From 1972-82, he and his wife, Pamela, also a former member of the UB music faculty, co-founded and operated Youth Makes Music, a summer camp in Alabama for young string musicians.

Gearhart retired from UB in 1985.


Patrick T. Glynn, 37, Math Place coordinator
A Mass of Christian Burial was held May 23 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Town of Tonawanda, for Patrick T. Glynn, a teacher in the Catholic Charities Achieve Program and a former teaching assistant and Math Place coordinator at UB. Glynn, 37, died May 19 in Buffalo General Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Glynn, a teacher in the Catholic Charities GED high school equivalency program since 1992, received a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and a master's degree in secondary education mathematics from UB. He served as a Math Place coordinator at UB's Learning Center from 1989 to 1991.


Joseph D. Godfrey, 89, Buffalo Bills physician, clinical professor of orthopedic surgery
A Mass of Christian Burial was held June 14 in Holy Redeemer Church, Kensington, Md., for Joseph D. Godfrey, physician for the Buffalo Bills, who served as clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at UB. Godfrey, 89, died May 31 in his home in Maryland.

Godfrey, who earned his medical degree from the UB Medical School in 1931, headed the Department of Orthopedics at Children's Hospital from 1956 to 1977, was chief of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Mercy Hospital from 1938 to 1980, and was an attending orthopedic surgeon at Buffalo General Hospital.

He was team physician for the Buffalo Bills from the team's American Football League inception in 1961 until the end of the 1977 season. He was physician for Buffalo's old All-America Conference pro football team from 1946 through 1949.

During World War II, Godfrey was chief of orthopedic surgery in the 23rd General Hospital, serving in Africa, Italy and France. After the war, he became a UB faculty member. He also headed a medical center on Southwestern Blvd., Orchard Park.

In addition to his love for sports medicine, Godfrey, who worked with the Crippled Children's Guild, enjoyed teaching and working in the field of children's orthopedics. Among his many honors was D'Youville College's first Community Service Award in 1973 and a Distinguished Alumni Award from Canisius College.

Godfrey moved to Maryland in 1980 to become a surgeon and teacher at the Naval Medical Center, retiring in 1990. He was the Navy's director of sports medicine and a special assistant to the Navy's Surgeon General.

His wife, Mary Jo, died March 9.

A Memorial Mass will be held Sept. 28 at noon for Dr. and Mrs. Godfrey in Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church, South Buffalo Street, Orchard Park.


UB microbiologist Eugene Gorzynski, 76
Eugene A. Gorzynski, professor of microbiology and pathology at UB and chief of the Microbiology Section at the Buffalo VA Medical Center, died May 16 in the medical center after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 76.

In 1955, Gorzynski and the late Erwin Neter, an internationally known bacteriologist, were the first to describe enteropathogenic E. coli bacteria as a toxin producer that could cause severe diarrhea in infants and young children. Diarrhea claims the lives of some 15 million children annually worldwide.

A veteran of World War II, Gorzynski served as director of bacteriology with the Army General Hospital in England. While there, he met his future wife, Ruth Repp, an Army nurse and Missouri native. She died in 1992.

His professional career in Buffalo began in 1946 at The Buffalo General Hospital as an assistant serologist working with the late Ernest Witebsky, internationally known immunologist and UB faculty member.

A year later, he joined Neter at Children's Hospital, where he worked until 1965. He later was a senior cancer research scientist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and an assistant director of the Erie County Health Department before joining the VA Medical Center in 1975.

During his academic career, Gorzynski taught bacteriology in the UB School of Nursing from 1949-64, taught at Erie Community College from 1949-69, and joined the UB Department of Microbiology in 1969. At UB, he was a popular teacher, as well as a respected researcher. His research interests included immunodiagnosis, infectious diseases and antimicrobial agents.

A member of the UB-based Ernest Witebsky Center for Immunology, he served on the admissions committee of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and the research and development committee at the VA Medical Center.

He was on the editorial committee of the journal Immunological Investigations. Gorzynski was the recipient of the Am-Pol Eagle's Citizen of the Year in Science Award in 1986 and was listed in "Who's Who in the East" and the Polish-American "Who's Who."

A violinist, Gorzynski performed with the Amherst and Orchard Park Symphony orchestras for more than 30 years.

He also was commanding officer of the 365th General Hospital for the U.S. Army Reserves based on North Forest Road in Amherst from 1966-69. He retired as a colonel in 1979.

Gorzynski earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from UB.


Agnes Lukas, 76, pathologist, UB professor
Services were held June 26 in the chapel of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church for Agnes Lukas, a pathologist and retired associate professor in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Lukas, 76, died in her home June 22 after a lengthy illness.

A native of Estonia, she obtained her medical training at the University of Tartu, Estonia, from 1942-44. In 1944, as the Red Army advanced into Estonia, she was forced to flee. She resumed her medical studies that year at the Medical Facility of Georg August University in Goettingen, Germany, where she received her degree in 1950.

In 1952, Lukas came to the U.S. serving an internship and residency in Troy and completing her pathology residency at Buffalo General Hospital, where she remained as attending pathologist until 1965.

She was attending pathologist and acting head at the Erie County Laboratories at the former E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, which was replaced by the Erie County Medical Center, retiring from the medical center in 1984.

Lukas was a diplomate of the American Board of Pathology, member and past president of the WNY Society of Pathologists, a member of the American Medical Association, life member of the state and Erie County medical societies, and a member of the New York State Association of Public Health Laboratories.


Leslie A. Osborn, 89, former head of Psychiatry Department
A memorial service is planned in the fall in Scottsdale, Ariz., for Leslie A. Osborn, who served as head of the UB Department of Psychiatry from 1945 to 1950. Osborn, 89, died June 16 in Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, after a short illness.

A native of Australia, he graduated from the Melbourne Medical School in 1929, and came to the U.S. in 1931. Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1944, he earned a medical degree from UB in 1945.

He became a staff member at the former E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital in 1941, and was acting director of its psychiatry department from 1946-1949.

After his service at UB, he became professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and director of the Division of Mental Hygiene at the Wisconsin Department of Public Welfare from 1950-1960.

He was professor of psychiatry at the University of Nebraska from 1960-1966 and director of the Swanson Clinic for Multiply Handicapped Children at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, Omaha, from 1960-1964.

He moved to Scottsdale from Seneca Falls in 1974, maintaining a private practice there.

In addition to numerous professional publications, Osborn authored the three-volume, "Preventing War: A Doctor's Trilogy," which advocated the use of education to control the catastrophe of war.


Shirley Stout, 82, administrator at UB
Shirley Stout, a UB administrator for more than 20 years, died June 26 in Buffalo General Hospital after a long illness. She retired in the mid-1980s as assistant to the vice president for research at UB.

Mrs. Stout was the widow of David B. Stout, who served as a professor of anthropology at UB. He died in 1968.

A 1937 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, she was an English instructor and secretary of the College of Public Affairs at Yenching University in Peking, China from 1937 to 1941. She served as a regional specialist on China for the Office of War Information, working in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco from 1944 to 1946.

From 1946 to 1948, she was an executive assistant with the Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Shanghai, and from 1948 to 1949, served as program director for the U.S. Educational Foundation in China.

When she returned to the U.S. in 1950, she became an executive associate with the American Council of Learned Societies in New York City.

In 1960, she joined UB's Office of Development and Planning as director of foundation relations, and the next year, was named assistant to the vice president for research. She received the Chancellor's Award for excellence in administrative service in 1977.


 
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