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DON JOHNSON ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF NEWFOUNDLAND LUNG ASSOCIATION
Mr. Donald Johnson, well known Newfoundland sports
figure, has been elected president of the Newfoundland
Lung Association. Mr. Johnson assumed office June 12th
and succeeds Dr. Duncan Rice who retired after serving in
the post since 1980. At the 1984 Annual Meeting, Mr.
Johnson paid a special tribute to Dr. Rice upon his
retirement. Dr. Rice had been a most active participant in the
treatment of Tuberculosis since his arrival in Newfoundland
in 1958. Dr. Rice served on the staff of the St. John's
Tuberculosis Dispensary, the St. John's Sanatorium and
completed his medical career as head of the Chest Clinic, St.
Clare's Mercy Hospital, a position held from 1973 to the
present. He has served as president of the Newfoundland
Thoracic Society and has been a long time member of the
Association's Board of Directors.
Mr. Johnson stated that he became involved with the
Association through his acquaintance with Dr. Rice. His
volunteer background is primarily in the field of sports and
he has been very active in the field of minor hockey. He is a
past president of the Canadian Amature Hockey
Association. In professional life, Mr. Johnson is experienced
in the banking field and he presently holds the position of
Assistant Deputy Minister of the Provincial Department of
Culture, Recreation and Youth.
Dr. Rice extended best wishes to Mr. Johnson in his new
position and extended his thanks for the support of the
Association's volunteers during his term of office. Mr.
Johnson stated that he was looking forward to his tenure and
becoming more involved in the Association's activities.
BEN LAKE ELECTED PRESIDENT-ELECT
OF THE CANADIAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
A Newfoundlander has been elected to the post of
president-elect of the Canadian Lung Association.
Well known Newfoundland Lung Association volunteer,
Ben S. Lake, was elected to the position at the CLA Annual
Meeting held in June. By election to this executive position,
Mr. Lake will be asked to serve a term as president
commencing June 1985.
Past president of the Newfoundland Lung Association, Mr.
Lake became interested in the fight against respiratory
disease in 1962. He joined the Association's Board of
Directors in 1967 and has continued to serve as director
since that time. He was elected president in 1975 and served
in that capacity until 1980. In 1982 he was nominated by the
Newfoundland Lung Association to serve on the CLA Board
of Directors as their representative.
Lung Association activity has not been the only avenue for
Mr. Lake's volunteerism. He has been active through many
various sporting associations and has just completed a year
as president of the Canadian Soccer Association. He is a past
president of the St. John's Rotary Club. He is currently the
chairman of the Avalon Consolidated School Board in St.
John's.
Newfoundland Lung Association president, Mr. Donald
Johnson, wishes to extend congratulations to Mr. Lake upon
his election to this prominent and active position.
CANADIAN LUNG ASSOCIATION PRESENTS HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP TO DR. EITHNE KNOWUNG
The Canadian Lung Association has awarded Dr. Eithne
Knowling of St. John's Honorary Life Membership into the
Canadian Lung Association. The award is in recognition of
Dr. Knowling's outstanding contribution to the fight against
tuberculosis throughout the province.
Dr. Knowling was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. She
graduated from the National University of Ireland in 1946
with the medical degrees M.B., B.CH. Post graduate training
was performed at Master Misericordial Hospital and she then
acted as a house physician at Cedars Chest Hospital in
Dublin. In 1946 she decided to come to Newfoundland to
work at the Newfoundland Government Sanatorium in St.
John's, a time when TB accounted for 12.9% of all deaths and
was the leading cause of death in the country as it was
termed in those times.
In 1953, Dr. Knowling became a medical officer for the
Tuberculosis Dispensary in St. John's and in 1959 became its
director. She then completed heractive medical career in the
position of Director of Tuberculosis Control in the province
of Newfoundland, a position that spanned the years 1974 -
1981.
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Dr. Knowling served on the staff of the four prominent St.
John's Hospitals as well as the Faculty of Medicine at
Memorial University. She served on the board of the
Newfoundland Tuberculosis and Respiratory
Association from 1974 -1981 and as a charter member
medical arm, the Newfoundland Thoracic Society
served a term as president. During her career she saw
tuberculosis go from being the most serious health threat in
Newfoundland to its eventual control.
She is remembered by those who know her as having a
great memory for remembering patients names and histories
and always showed empathy for those who were stricken by
the disease. Dr. Knowling is now retired and resides in St.
John's with her husband, Dr. Thomas Arthur Knowling, a
renowned figure in the Newfoundland Tuberculosis
Program himself.
Dr. Knowling accepted the award from Mr. Ben Lake,
president-elect of the Canadian Lung Association, at a
function held in July.
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