Forum Flashbacks: July 25-31
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JULY 25, 1974
50 YEARS AGO Dr. Patrick B. Harr
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, July 25, 1999
Dennis Dau has retired after 20 years of service to the Maryville R-II School District. Dau began his term with the district by replacing Lee Schneider in teaching instrumental music. Schneider came back to the district and he and Dau worked together for the next 12 years.
Dau became head band director and continued in that capacity for the last seven years.
“It’s summer, so there’s not much difference so far,” Dau said. “Not being in the parade was the first real change.”
The band participated in the parade, it’s just that Dau wasn’t there to lead them this year.
John Redden, president of the Maryville R-II School Board, presented a plaque to Dau for his 20 years of service to the district, at the board meeting Wednesday night.
The board approved a change in assignment of William C. Dodd, from assistant instrumental band director at the high school and middle school and pit band director for the 1999-2000 musical at the high school.
The board employed Heidi Dodd as the new instrumental music instructor, assistant band director and auxiliary sponsor at the high school.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, July 25, 1974
“I’ve got some fellow residents coming here in the fall to look over Maryville as a possible place to practice,” said Dr. Patrick B. Harr, a new physician practicing with Dr. E. D. Imes, “and I’m going to recruit like hell. After all, five of the eight physicians in this town are over 60 and I’ve got to look out for my own neck.”
What might sound like a self-centered attitude by the new doctor in town is actually a concern for the future of the community in which he was born and reared.
“The national average is one doctor for every 700 patients,” said Dr. Harr, a handsome young man with a friendly countenance. “Maryville can’t meet that ratio just within the city. We should have 15 doctors just for the townspeople. But when you think of the drawing area here — the people who come from surrounding areas and from Southwest Iowa — we have about one doctor for every 2,000 people.”
Dr. Harr, 29, was born at St. Francis hospital, the son of Dr. and Mrs. John Harr, and he lived here and attended Maryville R-II district schools. The elder Dr. Harr is chairman of the history department at Northwest State University, where his son attended classes as a freshman and sophomore.
In 1964, Harr went to the University of Missouri at Columbia and was graduated from medical school in 1969.
During his senior year at Mizzou, Harr returned to Maryville and spent a month observing the practice of Dr. Imes. “I knew I was interested in rural medicine and from that time with Dr. Imes, I planned my residency.”
Dr. Harr chose family practice — “a specialty in breadth” — because “I came from a small town and the only medicine I ever was associated with was family medicine. I never saw a pediatrician as a child.
“Also, I enjoy a variety of challenges, and many areas of medicine like surgery and especially obstetrics and gynecology.
“I planned when I left Maryville to come back here. People were pushing me to teach, to stay in the service, but I wanted to come here to find out how to teach what rural medicine is really like,” he said. “From time to time, we’ll have students and residents visit here, like I did in 1969, to see how medicine is applied away from an urban hospital.”
Harr was the first student to visit Maryville on such a program, and there has not been a student to do so since.
100 years ago
Maryville Tribune, July 30, 1924
HAS NO MEMORY OF BLOW WHICH CRACKED SKULL
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Wilder Hord, who operates the tractor on the Hughes Township road grader, is at his home in Graham suffering from a fractured skull, the wound believed to have been inflicted in a fight following a quarrel of which he has no recollection. His condition is serious but it is believed he will recover.
At Graham today it was said that Hord was struck by Findley Kaufman, who ran the grader with Hord, and that Kaufman admits hitting Hord with the iron draw-bar which connects the two pieces of machinery. Kaufman, it was said, declares he struck Hord following a quarrel, but that he acted in self defense. He refuses to make further comment.
No arrest has been made.
The trouble, as nearly as can be learned, took place about 4 o’clock Monday afternoon on the road about two miles east of Graham. The two men, who had been working together for about two years, were grading the road when they quarreled and the blow was struck. There was no witness to the affair.
Hord was found lying unconscious in the road by a passer-by and was brought to Graham, where he was treated by Dr. E. R. Findley. Late Monday evening he was brought to Maryville, where X-ray photographs, showing a fracture, were taken of his skull. He was unconscious until about 7 o’clock Tuesday morning.
Dr. H. S. Rowlett of Maryville, who treated the man today, said that Hord seems perfectly rational except that he has no memory of a quarrel or of having been hit.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-year and 100- year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
