Photos

Party at Tracy's

Getting together to celebrate Vic on a special occasion with fellows from the Golden Years. Such a special time

Party at the Church's

Each year Lois and I hosted a farewell party for the fellows. It was truly a family event featuring softball, volleyball, food, drink and just enjoying each other's company.

The OR Nurse corner

Cheryl and Doreen and crew loved to sit on the patio and keep an eye on proceedings, offering words of encouragement or scorn.

"Hereditary Right"

The annual Staff vs Fellows football game at the Dietz residence. Normally I would be on the offensive or defensive line, placing forceful blocks on my opponent. However once in the game I was allowed to carry the ball. This was a play dreamed up by Matt Kalady called "hereditary right" where I would line up in the backfield and on the snap I would run up past the line of scrimmage for 3 paces, and then head right for 5 paces, turn around, and there was the ball. As you can see there was also a fellow, eager to lay one on.

Meeting John Goligher

Frank Weakley and Vic Fazio introduce the current fellows (Steve Pilipshen, Me, John Oakley, George Moro) to John Goligher, icon of British Colorectal Surgery and Professor at Leeds who was visiting us in Cleveland.

2020 and Mo Abbas, Christie Cauley and two of the PAs join me in the Lerner Conference room

The Justass League of America

Fighting colorectal diseases wherever they are found. Ian Lavery as Superman was the origin of this idea. When the Church family arrived in Cleveland in 1983, we went to a party at David Jagelman's house. Our sone Jamie was 3 years old. He saw Ian and whispered to Lois and me (Mummy, Daddy. He looks like Superman!!!). And so, now we have Buttman and Scopin', Sphincter woman, the big BM, Pouch B, Dr Clean, The Incredible Hulk, and Satellite Boy.

On the occasion of the founding of the Digestive Diseases Institute

A huge crowd of colorectal alumni made the trip to help us kick off the DDI. There were a lot of old friends there. It was a big deal.

Meeting at the Clinic

The cast of characters for another CME meeting.

The Aussies (and one Kiwi)

Every meeting is a good excuse for the Aussie colorectal surgeons to take a photo together. I am sitting between Mark Killingback and Vic Fazio...a very exalted position. This is really a "Who's who?" of the Australian colorectal surgeons of the late Twentieth Century.

A Powerful Panel

Left to right: Jim Fleshman, Ian Lavery, Doug Wong, Bob Petras, Yours truly, Feza Remzi

On the occasion of instituting the Victor Fazio Chair in Colorectal Surgery

Floyd Loop, Bob Dole, and Yours Truly enjoying a Fazio joke.

The Cleveland Clinic Cricket Club, circa 1986

They played an exhibition game at the Cleveland Stadium in front of a crowd of 60,000 baseball fans. In the front row is Jagelman (second from left) and Fazio (last on the right). In the back row I see John Fox (third from left), Ian Jones (on his left), Rod Woods (on Ian's left) and and David Fazio (second from the far left).