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HALL OF HONOR 2007

Roy Howard Baskin, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S., YHS 1934

John Lane Baskin, M.D., Pediatrician, YHS 1938

Thomas Grady Baskin, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A., YHS 1941

The three sons, and only children, of lifelong Cameron citizens, Roy Howard Baskin, Sr., and his wife, Toresa Denson Baskin, honored their family and themselves with distinguished careers in medicine practicing in Waco, Dallas, and Tyler. All graduated

C. H. Yoe High School, The University of Texas at Austin, and The UT Medical Branch at Galveston.

            Roy (1916-2005) served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps during World War II, was a surgical fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN 1947-1952 and entered private practice as a surgeon in Waco in 1952 retiring in 1987. He was a local, state and national leader among his colleagues in medicine as well as a noted civic and cultural leader in Waco. He and his wife Lowery Burleson Baskin are parents of three sons.

            John Lane (1920-1987) served as an officer in the U. S. Navy during World War II, practiced briefly in Cameron with his uncle, Dr. Leland Denson, and completed a three-year fellowship at Mayo Clinic. He returned to the U.S. Navy during the Korean War then settled in Dallas to serve as chief of pediatrics at Children’s Medical Center until his death in 1987. He and his wife Myrtle Stidham Baskin are the parents of a son and two daughters.

            Grady, born in 1923, served as an officer in the U.S. Army. He completed his internship at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and residency in neuro-psychiatric medicine at John Sealy Hospital at Galveston and Brooke Army Hospital, San Antonio. Psychiatric societies of national rank certified him as Diplomate, Fellow, and Distinguished Life Fellow. He was a leader in the development and implementation of the present-day practice of medical dispensing of generic pharmacotherapeutic drugs. He and his wife Jean Ridall Baskin are parents of one son and two daughters.

It is no small matter that all three of the Baskin brothers followed in their parents’ footsteps as faithful members of the United Methodist Church. Their father was an attorney in Cameron; their mother a member of Milam County’s Denson family noted for its several physicians practicing here and elsewhere over the generations.