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Herman Albert Hoster
b.1912-03-05; d.1951-05-14; Columbus, OH, US; Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, 1951-1952 (p.118)
(contributed by Scott Prentice on 2013-10-20)
Born March 5, 1912, Columbus, Ohio
Died May 14, 1951, Columbus, Ohio
Father, Herman Albert Hoster, '03 S. Mother, Martha Welle.
The Hill School. Scholar of the second rank, Junior year; manager, Freshman squash team; manager, boxing team, Sophomore year, manager, University squash team, Senior year; manager, Tennis team, Sophomore year; elected to business board, Lit, Sophomore year, circulating manager, Lit, Senior year, member, Alpha Sigma Phi.
M.D. Johns Hopkins, '38, interned, Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., 1939; Ohio State Univ., Coll. of Medicine-instructor, medicine and research, 1941, assistant professor, research medicine, 1944-47; associate director, division of cancer research, 1945, associate professor of medicine, 1947, professor and co-ordm ator of oncology, 1948; World War II, gas warfare instructor, president, Hodgkin's Disease Research Foundation, Inc., vice-chairman, Cancer Commission, Metropolitan Health Council, member, American Assn. for Advancement of Science; American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, contributed articles to scientific journals.
Married (1) March 23, 1938, Columbus, Ohio, Margaret Knox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanton G. Prentiss Children Frederick W.; Albert Stanton. Married (2) August 26, 1947, Miriam Shanley Hoster.
Death due to Hodgkin's disease. Buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. Survived by wife, two sons, mother, Mrs. Herman A. Hoster, Sr., and a sister, Mrs. Walter D. Egle.
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