[Newspaper clippings about Dr. May Owen and the Texas Medical Association] Part: 1 of 4

                                
Snyder Daily News
Snyder, Texas

MAR 12 1961
Texas Medical Association

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District II To Hold
Annual Meet In Snyder
The Canyon Reef Medical Soc-      Among honored guests will bel
iety and it's Women's Auxiliary Dr. May Owen, President, Texas
are to be hosts and hostesses to the Medical Association, Mrs. Williarn
annual meeting of District II (2) C. Barksdale of Borer, President
of the Texas Medical Association  Elect of the Woman's Auxiliary to
Saturday; t tThT f~I961, here in I the  Texas  Medical Association,
Snyder.                        i  Mrs. Joe R. Donaldson of Pampa,
District I1 includes 22 c'ountie inI
the West Texas area. This will be
the first District meeting to be
held here.
Registr tion is to be at 12 noon       "AL TRIBUNE
at the Snyder Country Club.
The women's business meeting
begins at 1:45 p. m. at the Martha                  Princip
Ann Woman's Club. Guest will be
welcomed by Mrs. Thomas F. Hart-
ley, President of the Canyon Reef
Medical Society Auxiliary, of Sny-
der.
The business meeting will he
presided over by M~rs. C. Ray Cock-
rell. District II Councilwoman from
Snyder.
Following the business meeting
the members of the local Auxiliary
will be hostesses for a tea, and a
style show presented by Jonisue's
of Snyder.
Decorations at the Woman's Club
will be done by Mrs. Juanita Um-
berson.

New TMA Head
The Texas Medical Associa
choice of a woman doctor as its1
president is more than a compl
to the sex. Dr.
Owens of Fort 
is a notable m~
of the medical f
-nity. She has cc
A,  uted much to ti
vancement of th
fession, and her
tion as 95th press

DR. OWEN

of the state as

tion is primarily a personal re
tion.
At the same time, Dr. Owen
outstanding  representative  of
growing number of women phys
and surgeons who are making
tory in Texas and American
cine. Once largely restricted to
ing and other fields allied to the
ing art, women have long since
onstrated their fitness to fill
tral role in fostering private
public health.

tion's
latest
iment
May
Worth
ember
'rater-
ntrib-

MRS. RAMSEY H. MOORE
W"Xestern Regional Vice President.
Speaker to the Women's Auxili-
ary will be Mrs. Ramsay H. Moore,
Dallas, President of   the  Wo-
men's Auxiliary to the Texas Medi-
cal Association.
Mrs. Moore is the wife of Dr.
Ramsay H. Moore. a leading nedia-
trician and professor of clinical
pediatrics at Southwestern Medical
School in Dallas.
She is a native of Kosse. Texas,
but attended Southern Methodist
University in Dallas. She is very

active in various civic. community,
social, and medical activities. In
the State Auxiliary she has served
at First Vice President. Second
Vice President, Fourth Vice Presi-
dent and Parliamentarian.
Presiding for the Texas Medical
Association will be Dr. Wilton N.
Jones of Snyder, President of Dis-
trict II.
.Johnny Cola's Trio of Dallas will
play for a dinner dance to be
held at 8 p. m. at the Snyder Coun-
try Club.

Monday, February 27, 1961
al Speakers at Austin Meeting

UI iPhoto
PRESIDENT of the Texas Medical Association, Dr. May Owen, Fort Worth, and
Dr. Charles E. Oswalt, Jr., chairman of the T.M.A. Board of Councilors, were the
principal speakers at the T.M.A. Conference for Medical Society Officials in Austin.

he ad-                                      dent of the Texas Medical Asst: Temple for 50 years of service to
e pro-                 U    S    -            Dr. Harvey iFgetdn,  "     tIt"his profession.
elec-        =Vville was named president-elect at                             Dr. R. W. Kimbro, chairman of
sident                      -               tne close of the annual se sion of the hoard of trustees, presented
socia-          Sweetwater Report           the TMA Tuesday.                 [.or. Brindley with a plaque.
cogni-           Sweetwater, Texas            Dr. Owen, the 95th president of   Dr   Brindley. an associate of
TMA, received the gavel from the Scott & White Clinic in Temple,
outgoing president, Dr. Franklin served as TMA president in 1949
is an                                       W. Yeager of Corpus Christi.     1950i
the              __Other new officers:
icians                                       Dr. Russell Deter, El Paso, vice
g his-          octorsE                      president; Dr. C. P. Hardwicke,j
Austin, speaker of the House of
nur-         rDelegates; Dr. James D. Murphy,
nus-         iY5t       0          A       Fort Worth, vice president of the
heal-                                       House of Delegates; and Dr. El-I
dem-                            r
dem-                           ilott Mendenhall, Dallas, trustee
a  e-for a five-year term.
FAand                                       The AMA     House of Delegates
Owen, Fort Worth pathologist, is and board of trustees honored Dr.
the first woman to become presi-IGeorge  Walter Bindley   Sr. of!

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