I was sorry to learn here that Doug Mallory has passed away. While I didn't know Doug well at Oberlin,we got to know each other better during our 4 years at St Louis U School of Medicine. Doug and I were both members of a medical fraternity---a little surprising since Oberlin had no fraternities--but it was an affordable and amiable place to have housing our freshman year. I recall that Doug arrived at med school after a long bike ride, I believe from Colorado.Doiug was a natural athlete and probably handled the ride well but he acquired a nerve palsy in one hand on the ride probably, I always assumed, from riding the brakes so much on a long downhill ride. Doug was a serious student and, I am sure, became a great physician. He was, however, prone to extreme acts and at Phi Chi Medical Frat he was known affecionately as Mad Dog Mallory. I recall the day he and some friends went to a local Greek restaurant. While there he decided to try a trick he had seen done which was to pick up a table with his mouth. It didn't work out so well as he avulsed a tooth in the procees and probably never managed to pick up the table.I read some years later that Doug had hopes of doing a single-person rowing trip across, I believe, the Pacific Ocean.This would have been another test of his athletic prowess. Unfortunately he was deterred from doing it because of his commitment to the military, the Air Force, I think, which had helped finance his medical education. I am sorry Doug won't be with us on this,our 50th Oberlin reunion. I will always remember him...Geoff Kotin, Class of '73
Geoffrey Kotin
I was sorry to learn here that Doug Mallory has passed away. While I didn't know Doug well at Oberlin,we got to know each other better during our 4 years at St Louis U School of Medicine. Doug and I were both members of a medical fraternity---a little surprising since Oberlin had no fraternities--but it was an affordable and amiable place to have housing our freshman year. I recall that Doug arrived at med school after a long bike ride, I believe from Colorado.Doiug was a natural athlete and probably handled the ride well but he acquired a nerve palsy in one hand on the ride probably, I always assumed, from riding the brakes so much on a long downhill ride. Doug was a serious student and, I am sure, became a great physician. He was, however, prone to extreme acts and at Phi Chi Medical Frat he was known affecionately as Mad Dog Mallory. I recall the day he and some friends went to a local Greek restaurant. While there he decided to try a trick he had seen done which was to pick up a table with his mouth. It didn't work out so well as he avulsed a tooth in the procees and probably never managed to pick up the table.I read some years later that Doug had hopes of doing a single-person rowing trip across, I believe, the Pacific Ocean.This would have been another test of his athletic prowess. Unfortunately he was deterred from doing it because of his commitment to the military, the Air Force, I think, which had helped finance his medical education. I am sorry Doug won't be with us on this,our 50th Oberlin reunion. I will always remember him...Geoff Kotin, Class of '73