Photograph
Madison Friends of International Students
African students (left to right): Joseph Abrefa Ansah and Eugene Quaynor have dinner with Prof. Keith R. and Mary L. Symon and their four children, James, Judy, Keith, and Rowena, in the Symons' home. The Symons are members of the Madison Friends of International Students, whose mission is to give international students a view of informal American life. |
Image ID: | 93649 |
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Creation Date: | 10 04 1956 |
Creator Name: | Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 |
City: | Madison |
County: | Dane |
State: | Wisconsin |
Collection Name: | Arthur M. Vinje photographs and negatives, circa 1914-circa 1962 |
Genre: | Photograph |
Original Format Type: | negative, original |
Original Format Number: | PH 6442.6264 |
Original Dimensions: | 5 x 4 inches |
Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on October 30, 1956. Further information from Eugene Quaynor's daughter Ofosuah: "Dr. Eugene Quaynor became Africa's first American trained ophthalmologist. He was trained at Henry Ford Hospital back in the '60s. When he moved to Ghana, he set up the country's first private eye clinic in 1985. When he died in 2009, the former head of Henry Ford's ophthalmology dept Dr. Hessburg, said, "He was a great ophthalmologist. He was a man I loved". I was born in Detroit when he was an intern." |
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