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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Flight surgeon, Korea; Commercial Instrument Pilot; Vice President and Director Explorer’s Club N.Y.
Pathology educator, born Everman, Texas March 2, 1926; son of Claude Ernest and Lila Eunice (Bunch); married Annette Isabelle Rinker on December 21, 1946; children: George William Daryl, Jonathan Clark, Mark Christopher, Jennifer Anne (dec.) Elizabeth Margaret Rinker.
M.D., University Texas., Southwestern Medical School, 1947; M.S. in Public Health, U. N.C., 1953; PhD. in Ultrastructural Anatomy and Microbiology, Baylor University, 1969. Intern Duke Hospital 1947-48, assistant resident pathology 1951-53; intern Boston City Hospital, 1948-49; assistant pathologist Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1953-54; pathologist St. Anthony’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL, 1954-55; staff pathologist Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, 1955-59; Director Labs Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas 1959-86; Chief Department Pathology Baylor University Medical Center, 1959-86; Vice Chairman., Executive Committee Medical Board, 1970-72; Cons. Pathologist VA Hospital, Dallas 1955-71; Adj. Professor Anthropology and Biology Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1969; Instructor, Pathology Duke, 1951-53.
Harvard Medical School, 1953-54; Assistant Professor Pathology University Texas Southwestern Medical School, 1955-58, Clinical Associate Professor 1958-64, Clinical Professor 1964-72, Professor 1973-94, Professor Emeritus, 1994 -- ; Director Cancer Center, 1973-76, Associate Dean for Continuing Education, 1973-94, Emeritus Associate Dean, 1994 -- ; Pathologist-in-Chief Baylor University Medical Center, 1959-86, Professor Biomedical Studies, Baylor Graduate School, 1989-94; Chairman, Baylor Research Foundation, 1986-89; Professor Microbiology Baylor College Dentistry, 1962-68; Professor Pathology, 1964-68, Professor, Chairman Department Pathology 1969-73, Dean A. Webb Roberts Continuing Education, 1973-94; Special Advisor on Human and Animal Diseases to Governor, State of Texas, 1979-83. Editor: Laboratory Medicine (4 volumes), 1973, 10th edition; 1983; Contributor of articles to professional journals, chapters to textbooks. President Texas Division American Cancer Society, 1970; Chairman Governor’s Task Force on Higher Education, 1981. Served with AUS, 1944-46; flight surgeon USAF, 1948-51, Korea. Decorated Air Medal. Fellow College American Pathologists, American Society Clinical Pathologists, AAAS; member AMA (Chairman Multiple Discipline Research Forum 1969). American Association Pathologists, International Academy Pathology, American Association Medical Colleges, Explorer’s Club (Director, Vice President 1993 -- ), Sigma X1.