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and did many cases with him, until one ofthe Plastic Sur- geons decided to quit active surgery to become the assistant of Dr. Profitt as well as a general assistant in the OR. It is difficult to expect a surgeon not to take a Fellowship as— sistant instead of one in his middle eighties. However, I am still grateful for the many surgical assists, over 16,000 in the past 16 years, as I really enjoy working in the OR.

CONCLUSION 1912 - 2000

Today I am 88 years old, today, Sunday, March 12, 2000. When I got up this morning, there was a snowstorm from the north east. I recall stories of 88 years ago today, that there was a great snowstorm. My father took the horse and went for about a mile for a Mrs. Barker as in those days, the neighbours always helped. Melbourne Dixon went with him. Jimmie Dixon who was eight years old at the time, told me that he and his father went to the shore that morning, and the snow wasjust starting. On the way to our home with Mrs. Barker that afternoon, the snow was so deep and soft that the men had to let the horse, which was regarded to be good in snow, out of the sleigh at Dixon’s hill, about a couple of thousand yards from our home, to make its way home, while they carried Mrs. Barker to the house.

The Doctor had been called but he did not arrive for two days after I was born. I knew that there is only a dash on my birth certificate for the doctor’s name. Since that day there have been some very bad snowstorms in my life. Some times I was in the blowing snow with a horse and sleigh, wondering ifl could ever get home. I can say that I never stayed home because of a snowstorm in my six years

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