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| Alumni Affairs 1986 Recipient - Dana L. Farnsworth, MD (Class of 1931)  Dr. Farnsworth was named the WVU School of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus for 1986. He received his AB degree in 1927 and his BS degree from WVU in 1931. He received his MD from Harvard in 1933 and served as Director of Harvard’s University Health Services from 1954 to 1971. Dr. Farnsworth taught general science in high school for two years. He served an internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant residency at the sanitorium division of Boston City Hospital. In 1941, he was ordered to the Philadelphia Naval Hospital in charge of the psychiatric serve. After the attack of Pearl Harbor, Dr. Farnsworth served on the USS Solace, the only hospital ship in the South Pacific during the first year of the war. In 1954, Dr. Farnsworth became the Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene and director of University Health Services. He was one of the leading American psychiatrists and an eminent international authority in the field of college student health. From 1971-73 he was vice chairman on the National Commission of Marijuana and Drug Abuse. He also was one of the earliest prominent medical authorities to campaign against the use of illegal drugs in the United States. Dr. Farnsworth died in 1986 of Alzheimer’s Disease. |
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