RANKIN WILL ADDRESS
BRITISH, IRISH SURGEONS
Dr. Fred W. Rankin, Lexington,
international authority on cancer of
. the colon, who was inaugurated
yesterday as president of the Amer-
ican College of Surgeons at its an-
nual meeting in Chicago, will
go to England next May to address
the Associations of Surgeons of
Great Britain and Ireland. s
  _ A `The new ACS president is the
author of 300 papers on operative
— `and clinical surgery and of many
s monographs and textbooks on sur-
gery of the colon and rectum.
He is the third iperson in medical
history to be elected to the presi-
dency of three major medical
groups-—the American Medical As-
, sociation, the American Surgical
Association and the College of Sur-
. geons. The other two are Dr. Wil-
liam J. Mayo and Dr. Charles H.
_ Mayo. . ‘
Dr. Rankin is a veteran of both
World Wars. During the first, he
I served 17 months with the Army
» Medical Corps as a major attached
to the First A. C., Fourth and 26th
~ Divisions in France. He was com-
manding officer of a base hospital
with the rank of major, and at the
i end. of the war he became a colonel
. in the Army Medical Reserve
Corps.
, During World War II he was
called to active duty in the Surgeon
General’s office with the rank of
‘ brigadier general. He served as
chief consulting surgeon to the
Armies of the United States.
Military citations held by Dr.j
Rankin include·World War I vic-'
tory ribbon, World War II Dis-
tinguished Service medal, Victory
ribbon, ETO ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific·
ribbon, American Theater ribbon
and Cross of Chevalier of -the
Legion of Honor.