Averiil Abraham Liebow (1911-1978): a colleague's tribute.
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Early in the autumn of 1931, when the United States and much of Europe were still mired in a severe economic depression, a freshman at the Yale University School of Medicine wrote to his parents who lived in Brooklyn, New York: "I am very well here, and have spent some of the best days of my life here. Everything is so informal and designed for the good of the students... ." The writer of this perceptive and reassuring message was Averill Abraham Liebow; within two decades he would become a pathologist of international renown. The recipients of his letter were Charles and Emma (Wagner) Liebow. In 1920 they had migrated to the United States with their children, Averill and Felicia, in search of a better life than their native Austria, that war-torn remnant of the once great Austro-Hungarian Empire, seemed likely to provide. When the steamship which carried them across the Atlantic Ocean entered New York Harbor and passed the Statue of Liberty, Averill was nine years old. The boy's early education was, predictably, in the city's public schools and was concluded at the academically excellent College of the City of New York where he was a varsity fencer and a superior student, graduating magna cum laude. His decision to study medicine at the height of the Great Depression, with its anticipated heavy strain on the scant finances of the Liebow family, was a courageous one and must have been reached only after lengthy discussions with his hard-working parents. Charles Liebow was supporting his wife and children by working as an accountant in the great metropolis, but thousands of educated native Americans were at that time walking the streets in search of jobs-any jobs, and money went first for the basic necessities of daily life. Averill wrote a touching note to Charles and Emma soon after his arrival in New Haven:
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 54 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1981