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Rollin Howard Stevens

Rollin Howard Stevens Rollin Howard Stevens An Anniversary Chronicle of His Useful Life Percy Brown , M.D. Boston Excerpt ONE of the most active and vigorous figures in the practice of American radiology to-day is that of Dr. Rollin Stevens, who now reaches the age of three score years and ten prophetically signalized in Scriptural writ, and whose enthusiastic, sedulous, and forthright individuality, crystallized in the service of mankind and polished by the gentle contact of each passing year, continues to reflect from its many facets his faith in his work and in himself in the doing of it, as well as the joy of fulfilment which the realization of his life's ideals has assured to him. Rollin Stevens is a native of Canada, born of sturdy Anglo-Saxon and Celtic stock into the best traditions of the great Dominion at Blenheim, Province of Ontario, in early January of the year 1868. The eldest son of Nathan Howard and Ada Jane (Burk) Stevens, he lived with his parents at his birth-place until five years old, when the family removed to the far western community of Pilot Hill, California, in the placer-mining district of the Sierras. His father remained in California but a relatively short time, ultimately leading back his household to the Canadian village of Blenheim and later, in 1880, to the larger town of Chatham, Ontario. By reason of his seniority in a family group of nine children, eight of whom were boys, the youthful shoulders of this lad carried, as they grew, more than the usual weight of the responsibility imposed by the duties of home life and the care of those younger than he. Notwithstanding his ardent participation in the various sports and pastimes, especially those of winter, wherein Canadian youth habitually excel, through this salutary family training young Stevens developed a sense of obligation and accountability, acquired a fondness for hard work and formed the sound attributes of character which have ever identified all phases of his life's endeavor. By the time he was eighteen years old, Stevens had matriculated at the University of Toronto in preparation for the academic degree and subsequent study of the Law in accordance with parental plan, but during the year 1886 he was induced by a young friend of about his own age 1 to enter the Homoeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1889. Throughout the course of his later years in medical school his extra-curricular activities were increased—in junior year as Secretary of the Hahnemannian Society and in senior year as its President and also President of the Homoeopathic Branch of the Students' Christian Association. During the course of his senior year he was also Senior Assistant to the Professor of Surgery. His summer holidays were spent as coadjutor in the office of a private practitioner of St. Thomas, Ontario, where his training profited by the practical experience afforded him. Copyrighted 1938 by The Radiological Society of North America, Inc. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Radiology Radiological Society of North America, Inc.

Rollin Howard Stevens

Radiology , Volume 30 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1938

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Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
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Copyright © 1938 by Radiological Society of North America
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1527-1315
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0033-8419
DOI
10.1148/30.1.1
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Rollin Howard Stevens An Anniversary Chronicle of His Useful Life Percy Brown , M.D. Boston Excerpt ONE of the most active and vigorous figures in the practice of American radiology to-day is that of Dr. Rollin Stevens, who now reaches the age of three score years and ten prophetically signalized in Scriptural writ, and whose enthusiastic, sedulous, and forthright individuality, crystallized in the service of mankind and polished by the gentle contact of each passing year, continues to reflect from its many facets his faith in his work and in himself in the doing of it, as well as the joy of fulfilment which the realization of his life's ideals has assured to him. Rollin Stevens is a native of Canada, born of sturdy Anglo-Saxon and Celtic stock into the best traditions of the great Dominion at Blenheim, Province of Ontario, in early January of the year 1868. The eldest son of Nathan Howard and Ada Jane (Burk) Stevens, he lived with his parents at his birth-place until five years old, when the family removed to the far western community of Pilot Hill, California, in the placer-mining district of the Sierras. His father remained in California but a relatively short time, ultimately leading back his household to the Canadian village of Blenheim and later, in 1880, to the larger town of Chatham, Ontario. By reason of his seniority in a family group of nine children, eight of whom were boys, the youthful shoulders of this lad carried, as they grew, more than the usual weight of the responsibility imposed by the duties of home life and the care of those younger than he. Notwithstanding his ardent participation in the various sports and pastimes, especially those of winter, wherein Canadian youth habitually excel, through this salutary family training young Stevens developed a sense of obligation and accountability, acquired a fondness for hard work and formed the sound attributes of character which have ever identified all phases of his life's endeavor. By the time he was eighteen years old, Stevens had matriculated at the University of Toronto in preparation for the academic degree and subsequent study of the Law in accordance with parental plan, but during the year 1886 he was induced by a young friend of about his own age 1 to enter the Homoeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1889. Throughout the course of his later years in medical school his extra-curricular activities were increased—in junior year as Secretary of the Hahnemannian Society and in senior year as its President and also President of the Homoeopathic Branch of the Students' Christian Association. During the course of his senior year he was also Senior Assistant to the Professor of Surgery. His summer holidays were spent as coadjutor in the office of a private practitioner of St. Thomas, Ontario, where his training profited by the practical experience afforded him. Copyrighted 1938 by The Radiological Society of North America, Inc.

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Published: Jan 1, 1938

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