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News from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
UAMS Honors
Aubrey J. Hough, M.D.: “A
True American Scholar”
FEB. 3, 2003 |
The University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences (UAMS) honored Professor and
Chair Aubrey J. Hough, M.D., Jan. 30 for
leading the Department of Pathology in the
College of Medicine for 21 years.
Dr. Hough became associate dean for
special projects in the
College
of
Medicine
in January. Dean E. Albert Reece, M.D.,
Ph.D., M.B.A., noted that Dr. Hough, part
of a pioneer
Arkansas
family with many ancestors and relatives
who have served in the Arkansas General
Assembly, is “highly respected in
Arkansas
and beyond its borders.”
A procession of university leaders, along
with President J. Timothy Cloyd, Ph.D., of
Dr. Hough’s undergraduate alma mater,
Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., praised
him as ”a Renaissance man,” “a true
American scholar,” and “”one of our
best problem-solvers.”
UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D.,
extolled Dr. Hough’s service as chief of
staff for two two-year terms, chairing
five search committees for the
College
of
Medicine
, and championing minority students.
His service to the Association of
American Medical Colleges is
“legendary,” he told the
standing-room-only crowd in Sam Walton
Auditorium.
Chancellor Wilson drew laughter with his
observation that Dr. Hough “has the
capacity to worry” and added, “but he
thinks when he worries. Every institution
needs a few people in leadership who can
do that.”
Robert Mrak, M.D., Ph.D, who followed Dr.
Hough to UAMS from Vanderbilt University,
described Dr. Hough’s feats on the
softball field during a crucial game
between the Department of Pathology at
Vanderbilt and that university’s law
school:
”The law school had not lost a game in
three years, and was up 3-2 against us in
the bottom of the final inning. I led off,
as I always did. I was not much of a
softball player, but I was a pretty fair
runner. My specialty was the six-inch
single. I had a habit of just topping the
ball with my wild swings and then
out-sprinting the resultant confusion to
reach first base. I got on base, and four
batters later we had the bases loaded with
two outs and Aubrey coming to bat. His
first two swings were aimed at the left
field corner, but both hit the foul line.
With one strike left --- and remember that
a third foul is an out in softball – he
gave up the corner and swung away to left
field with a tremendous shot that
disappeared in the general direction of
married student housing.
“While
not exactly the shot ‘heard ‘round the
world,’ it was certainly the shot heard
‘round the law school.”
Dr.
Mrak added, “There are grand slams that
take but an instant, and there are grand
slams that are built slowly over decades.
Aubrey came to
Arkansas
to
head a small department in an obscure
medical school, and he built a nationally
recognized program. This time, certainly,
a shot heard ‘round the world.”
In his own remarks, Dr. Hough recognized
his wife, Linda Yaeger Hough, and mother,
Willene Hough Adams, and his father, the
late Aubrey J. Hough, Sr. He praised
Hendrix
College
and
Vanderbilt
University
,
where he earned his M.D. degree in 1970
and was associate professor of pathology
before coming to UAMS.
”I have never been sorry that I left
Vanderbilt to come here. I’m proud of
what we’ve done,” he said.
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Aubrey
J. Hough, Jr., M.D., reacts to applause at a program
honoring him
Jan.
30, 2003.
(Kevin Christensen) Click on photo for larger view.
Chancellor
I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., congratulated Dr. Hough. (Kevin
Christensen) Click on photo for larger view.
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Dean
E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., of the
College
of
Medicine
thanked Dr. Hough for recruiting him to UAMS. Of Dr. Hough,
he said, “No task is too large for his abilities or too
small for his attention.” (Kevin Christensen) Click on
photo for larger view.
Aubrey
J. Hough, Jr., M.D. (Kevin Christensen) Click on photo for
larger view.
Dr.
Hough with his mother, Willene Hough Adams of
North
Little Rock
(center) and his wife, Linda Yaeger Hough. (Kevin
Christensen) Click on photo for larger view.
Chancellor
Emeritus Harry P. Ward, M.D. (right), and Dr. Hough. (Kevin
Christensen) Click on photo for larger view.
Hendrix
College
President J. Timothy Cloyd, Ph.D. (left), told the crowd
that Dr. Hough has been a great supporter of the college and
is “a generous, kind and spiritual man.” (Kevin
Christensen) Click on photo for larger view.
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