The following individuals had some association with
the medical community in Omaha, and/or UNMC.
KINGS:
1927 – Dr. Wilson Orton Bridges, 34th King
Dean, College of Medicine, 1913-1915
lobbied legislature to purchase land for campus at 42nd and Dewey
(“first time in history that a member of the medical profession was so honored”
from Albert Tyler’s History of Medicine in Nebraska, 1928)
1965 – Dr. Charles W. McLaughlin, Jr., 71st King
College of Medicine Professor of Surgery, 1954-1972
1977 – Dr. Harold “Hal” Gifford, Jr., 83rd King
College of Medicine Professor of Ophthalmology
1998 – Dr. James O. Armitage, 102nd King
Dean, College of Medicine, 2001-2003
Professor, Oncology/Hematology, 1982 to present
2003 – Ken Stinson, CEO Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc., 107th King
Chairman, The Nebraska Medical Center Board of Directors
QUEENS:
1897-May Dundy Lee, 2nd Queen
Wife of Dr. Edward Wallace Lee, chief physician of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition
1952-Katherine Abigail Young, 58th Queen
Daughter of Dr. Richard H. Young, College of Medicine Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
1977-Shirley Ann Landen, 83rd Queen
later Dr. Shirley Landen Huerter, one of only a few women cardiologists in Omaha