The Reporter: June 1995, Vol.6, No.3
Lectureship Series For Pathology

Dr. Philip O'Bryan Montgomery Jr., a 1945 P&S graduate, has been honored with a named lectureship series in the Department of Pathology.

Dr. Montgomery, professor of pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School since 1961, graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1942. The Dallas native has held numerous positions and affiliations in his career. In 1991 he was named the Ashbel Smith Professor of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In 1990, SMU honored him with the Distinguished Alumni Award. Three years earlier, St. Marks School of Texas honored him with its first Distinguished Alumnus Award.

In 1989 the Philip O'Bryan Montgomery Jr. distinguished chair was created in the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He served as president of the board of directors for the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund from 1974 to 1979 and in 1983 the fund named a fellowship in perpetuity for Dr. Montgomery. He was a member of the Board of Regents for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences from 1974 to 1977 and he received the Astronauts' "Silver Snoopy" Award for Professional Excellence in 1970 for carrying out an experiment to study the effects of zero gravity on living human cells during the Sky Lab III flight.

Dr. Montgomery's wife, Ruth Ann, donated $10,000 to the Department of Pathology to establish the permanent lectureship series.

"He is very grateful for the training he received at Columbia, and since this is the year for his 50th class reunion, it seemed like the right time to honor him," Mrs. Montgomery says. "He's been very successful. Columbia is a very special place to my husband. I hope this lectureship series will add to the wealth of knowledge there for students and enrich their lives in the same way Columbia has benefited my husband."

"The Department of Pathology is grateful to Mrs. Montgomery for the establishment of this lectureship and is honored to have Dr. Montgomery's name associated with it," says Dr. Michael Shelanski, chairman of pathology.