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Dr- Fred W- Rankin, Lexington   =:i it =‘¢€   e‘¢¥  
surgeon, was inaugurated today as   ‘’‘"’“°` .   i »·.’:-; ii i‘’`’’ i  
president or the American College   =‘‘i "   ..;2;;.;E, ,.;;  
of Surgeons at its annual meeting     , _;;;;;  
Dr. Rankin is the third person   ,_·`¤  
in medical history to be honored   i”a=  
by election to the presidency of   i:`  
three major medical groups—the   ai 
College of Surgeons, the American  
Medical Association (Which he   `'`i’?  
headed in 1941) and the American  
Surgical Association (1949)- The  
other two are Dr. William J. Mayo  
an T Dr- Charles H- Mayo-  
Dr. Rankin is an internationally  
known authority on cancer of the  
colon and is the author of 300   .``‘  
papers on operative and clinical  
surgery. as Well as many mono~  
graphs and textbooks on surgery  
of the colon and rectum- He will ,;iii irt·  
go to England in May, 1954, to ad-  
dress the Associations of Surgeons  
ci Greet Britain and ireland  
A resident of Lexington for the  
past 20 years, Dr. Rankin is a vet- ;:&&eE2$2¥ei222e¤2=i;é2é;:_;;é2·2ié¥i%. xii; ‘‘tr  
eran of both world wars. During DR_ FRED W_ RANKIN
World War I he served 17 months
iwith the Army Medical Corps as a chief consulting surgeon to the
rmajor attached to the First A. C., Armies of the United States until
Fourth and 26th Divisions in the end of the war, when he re-
France. He was commanding of- tired with the rank of brigadier
ficer of a base hospital with the general.
rank of major and at the end of Dr. Rankin holds the following
the war he became a colonel in the military citations: World War I,
Medical Reserve Corps of the_Victory ribbon; World War II, Dis-
Arrny. tinguishedr Service medal, Victory
During World War II he was ribbon, ETO ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific
called to active duty in the Sur- ribbon, American Theater ribbon,
geon General’s office with the rank Cross of Chevalier of the Legion
of brigadier general. He served as of Honor. `