David Dawson



Last Updated:    November 22, 2009

Residing In:    Port William, Newton Stewart, Scotland United Kingdom

Spouse/Partner:    Alice

Occupation:    Retired Sr. Lecturer of Anatomy

Children:    Patrick, born 1965
Amy, born 1970
Julie, born 1975

Birthday:    September 16, 1942

Comments:    BA - Adams State College; MA, PhD - Southern Illlinois University.

I taught Biology, before finishing PhD, for three years at Univ. SD at Springfield (now a prison!). After receipt of the PhD (1975) we moved to WV where I was part of the initial faculty of Marshall University School of Medicine (Huntington) from 1975-1986. We then moved to Iowa, where I was clinical anatomist for the Iowa Methodist Medical Center and Des Moines VA Medical Center general surgery residency programmes. In 1992, we moved to Dundee, Scotland, where I was Senior Lecturer of Anatomy at the University of Dundee until I retired in 2007.

After I retired, we moved to Port William, Scotland, where we now live in an old (1850's?) cottage, half of a "duplex", and rent the other half of the duplex out as a holiday cottage. Gardening and woodturning keep me busy when we are here. However, I also do some Visiting Professor work at St. George's University (on the Caribbean island of Grenada), King Saud Unilversity (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), and irregularly at some UK universities, primarly because I enjoy anatomy and interacting with students in the lab.

School Story:    Best memories of High School are from Vocal Music. Russ Hillock was a fantastic teacher who inspired us all to do the very best we could. I have very fond memories of our productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" and "Pirates of Penzance", as well as our choir tour. Don't know if they were really as good as I remember, but for those of us who participated, they were fantastic, and showed us all what we could do if we wanted. Thank you, Mr. Hillock!!!




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12/23/09 09:10 AM #1    

Donald Crawford

Hey Dave,

Thanks for your tribute to Rus Hillock. I was not a part of the music productions but enjoyed them all. I too was touched by Mr Hillock probably because of my close association with many of our classmates wo were part of the musical productions, and my close ties with Frank. I encourage Frank to invite Rus to the class reunion. I hope Rus will choose to join us.

Don

12/23/09 11:43 AM #2    

David Dawson

Me, too. It would be really good to see him!

05/18/10 10:13 AM #3    

Donald Crawford

Hey, Dave and alice, when do you leave to travel to the states?  Looking forward to seeing both of you again.  Lots of memories to share.

05/18/10 02:34 PM #4    

David Dawson

 About the middle of July, I think.  Before that we have a few days in Riyadh (external examiner, a few days in Dundee (graduation of some students I wrote letters of reference for), and a week in Greece (helping an ex-student paint a chapel on the island of Lesvos, where he and his Greek wife to be, another ex-student), are going to get married - wedding will take place while we are in the US.  Now if only the Icelandic volcano behaves!!!

05/20/10 04:02 PM #5    

Donald Crawford

Hope the volcano behaves.  Looking forward to seeing both of you in July.  Safe travels whereever you are.

07/09/10 05:29 PM #6    

Donald Crawford

Dave and Alice,

I read your comments on Chuck Asay's page and all your reasons for driving on the left side of the road seem? logical?  Maybe no left handed knights of old. 

We are certainly looking forward to seeing the two of you in SLV at the reunion.  And especially glad to hear that your Amy's bout with cancer seems to have been successful.  Jana had breast cancer but she caught it in the early stages so it ended more of a scare with minimal impact and minor surgery.  Everything has been fine for her the past six or so years (lose track of time).

We did go up for the decade reunion- not many from our class(10-12) but over 400 people the first night and around 300 the second night for the banquette.  Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.  We plan to come up Thursday for ours and return home on Monday.

So if this is your last trip to the SLV we will have to make a trip to your side of the pond.  Next summer is in the very early planning stages.

Don & Jana

 

 
07/12/10 03:46 AM #7    

David Dawson

Sounds good!  We'll talk more at the reunion!!!!

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