DAILY GLEANER,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1933.
JAMAICAN STUDENTS SUCCEEDING U. S. A.
Success
of a Jamaican in studies abroad has
been reported. He is Howard [Harold] G.
Russell, former St George's College student,
of this city who is now pursuing medical
studies at Howard University Washington,
U. S. A.
Successful
in gaining his B Sc degree, he was
one of a number of students in the
graduate
school of the University, who
received a
scholarship qualifying him for
his M.Sc.
degree. He passed in [psy]chology.
Old
students of St. George's as well as his
many friends and acquaintances -
for Howard
[Harold] Russell was a popular
member of his
set - will be pleased to learn of their
colleague's success. He has been away four
years.
DAILY GLEANER,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 1946
Young
Jamaican Doctor Returns Home On
Visit
After
an absence of twelve years Dr. Harold
G. Russell an old St. George's College
boy,
and one who figured prominently in
sports
during his school days, returned to
the island
on Friday last by
Pan-American plane on a
month's visit
Dr.
Russell expressed great pleasure and
happiness
in returning home on so short a
visit
and said he will endeavour to cover as
much ground as possible seeing his old
friends and to taking in as much
details as
possible.
Alter
his graduation from St. Georges College,
Dr.
Russell proceeded to the United States of
America where he entered the Meharry Medical
school. On completion of his course there,
he
was interned at the Homer Phillips
Hospital,
St. Louis.
He
then decided to specialise in Chest
diseases
with emphasis on tuberculosis.
Dr.
Russell also attended Howard University
where he graduated and obtained the
Bachelor and
Master of Science degrees. He
also took
the Diplomate of the National Board
Examination and intends to take the Board
of
Internal Medicine examination on his
return to
the United States.
At
Howard, Dr. Russell was at one time
captain
of both the soccer and boxing
teams and was
in truth one of the
most prominent figures in
the sporting
affairs of the University. He also
did
some post graduate work at the Columbia
University.
At
the present time Dr. Russell is on the
staff of
the Robert Koch Hospital
in
St. Louis, Missouri where he has over
160
patients regularly. Along with him there
is
another Jamaican doctor, Dr A. Bonner.
The
young medico has expressed surprise at
the
expansion in the building programme of
the
island over the past 12 years. It was
obvious Dr Russell said, that there was
great
advancement and progress made,
educationally, and he hoped that the time
was
not far off when Jamaica would have
its own
University, comparable to those of
England
and the United States.
Being
out in the Middle West during the past
three years, Dr Russell said that he
had not the
opportunity of seeing much
of the Jamaicans
who went over to the
United States on the
contract project. He
has, however heard much
of their work
which has been most satisfactory
on all
sides.
Dr. Russell's coming home was most
opportune, he
said, as on the very next day –
Saturday last, his old school, St George's
College, had its annual sports and,
apart from
attending, he ran in the 100
yards old boys
over 30 dash, but got
"winded" and had to
"pull up"
half way.
Dr.
Russell stated that Mrs. Russell should
have
accompanied him on his home coming,
but
was, at this time, temporarily indisposed.
He hoped, however, to bring her out to Jamaica, and, although there was no
certainty,
at this time, he. would return
to practice his
profession here.
Dr.
Russell will be remembered by footballers,
as the "stocky" outside left on
the St George's
College's Old Boys' team
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