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Name Cooke
Med Officer
CAMP COOKE --- Appointment of Maj. Herschel E. Griffin of Cucamonga, as commanding officer of the 115th Medical Battalion was announced yesterday by Maj. Gen. Daniel H. Hudelson, commanding general of the 40th Infantry Division.
Maj. Griffin had been serving as 40th Infantry Division medical inspector.
Maj. Griffin entered active service June 4, 1945, as a first lieutenant after three years in the reserve. In Europe he was regimental surgeon with the 508th Parachute Infantry. He wears the Army commendation ribbon.
In September, 1947, he reorganized the medical company of the 224th Infantry Regiment in Upland.
His father. Col. Herschel R. Griffin of 8231 Longden drive, San Gabriel, was 40th Division chaplain during World War II,
[Pasadena Independent, Pasadena, CA, 13 Feb 1951, Tue, Page 27]
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Dr Herschel Emmett Griffin, 91
Dr. Herschel Emmett Griffin died on March 29, 2010, in San Diego, CA, at the age of 91. Born in Valley City, ND on July 28, 1918. As a minister's son, he lived in New York, Indiana, and Chicago before moving to southern California as a teen.
Graduating from Stanford (1939), and UC Berkeley Medical School (1943), Dr. Griffin entered the U.S. Army for World War II. He later served in the Korean War and completed a distinguished career retiring in 1969 as the Chief of Preventive Medicine. Among his military decorations were the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and Army Commendation medal.
He then served for 11 years as the Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology in Pittsburgh, PA.
Retiring from that, he moved to San Diego to help set up the new Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University. He authored many professional articles on public health during his career and was included in the Who's Who of America.
During his thirty years in San Diego, he also served as a consultant in epidemiology to the County Health Department, as a member of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board and on the California Governor's Science Advisory Committee.
He was active in the San Diego Rose Society and the Museum of Man. In private life, he enjoyed worldwide travel, birding, music, reading, learning and roses. Most of all, he loved his wife of 60 years, Francis Nye Griffin, who preceded him in death.
Dr. Griffin will be remembered for the depth and breadth of his knowledge, his high standards, his belief in active community participation, and his interest in everything around him.
He is survived by son Bruce N. Griffin of Burke, VA, daughter Karen L. Griffin of Sacramento, CA, four nieces and a nephew.
[The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, CA, Sunday,
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Herschel graduated in the
class of 1939, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California with an
undergraduate degree.
He registered for the
draft in Ontario, CA on 16 January 1941 while a student at the
University of California, Berkley and graduated from that school with a
medical doctor degree in 1943
He enlisted as a Private
in the National Guard, probably as a means to forestall being drafted
until he finished school.
Herschel entered active
service June 4, 1945, as a first lieutenant after three years in the
reserves.
On 15 October 1947,
Captain Griffin appears as the commanding officer of Company E in the
photo taken at Camp Kilmer, NJ when the 508thy was being deactivated.
He retired as a Major on 8
August 1969. |
