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Dr. Markham was born August 22, 1882, at Haver- straw, New York, son of Luther O. and Jane A. (Lane) Markham. He received his early education in the elementary schools of his home town and was graduated from the Haverstraw High School. He entered Columbia University, and after four years of diligent study, he completed the required courses for a degree at that institution of higher learning. Later he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- versity, in New York City.
In 1903, Dr. Markham became medical superinten- dent of the Brunswick Home Sanitarium and Gene- ral Hospital. Throughout the years he has served with distinction and has brought honor and success to this institution. His splendid leadership and able management have been a large factor in the develop- ment of the Home and the Hospital into organs of benevolent and useful work.
Dr. Markham is an officer of the Westport Sanitarium at Westport, Connecticut, the Bank of Amityville, and the Brunswick Home Company. Fraternally, he is a member of the Amityville Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. He is active in the Unqua Corinthian Yacht Club and the Amity- ville Club. In religious affiliation he is a Methodist, and he acts as a trustee of the South Methodist Church. His favorite forms of recreation and exer- cise are boating and golf.
On November 2, 1910, at Amityville, Dr. Convas Lane Markam married Susie M. Ireland, and they became the parents of the following children: I. Margaret Alden, who was born at Amityville, was graduated from the Amityville High School, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Smith College, at- tended Teachers College of Columbia University, taught school at Hempstead and Lindenhurst, and was married to Leroy Van Nostrand, of Babylon, who served during the second World War as a lieutenant in the United States Navy, and is now a prominent young lawyer; they became the parents of two children, Judith Markham and Gail. 2. Jean Car- men, who was graduated from the Amityville High School and the Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School
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in New York and Packer Collegiate Institute and was married to Norman Briggs, of Montclair, New Jersey, who was graduated from Cornell University with the degree of Master of Engineering, and is now assistant to the chief engineer of the Ranger Aircraft Corporation at Farmingdale. 3. Anne Ireland, who was graduated from the Amityville High School, and Teachers College, Columbia University, and is now teaching at Mount Vernon, New York.
JULIUS P. GALE, M.D .- Associated with the practice of medicine on Long Island since 1932, Dr. Julius P. Gale became a resident of the village of Lindenhurst in 1935, and there he has built up a lucrative practice while taking an active part in many civic, religious and fraternal organizations centered in that progressive Suffolk County community.
Julius P. Gale is a son of Peter and Petronella (Zaleskas) Gale, his father having been a successful merchant at Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he n >w lives in retirement. In that city Julius P. Gale was born on January 9, 1906. After the completion of his elementary and intermediate schooling he entered Columbia College in the City of New York, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1928. His choice having by this time been made of a career in medicine, he continued his studies under the aegis of Columbia University, and in 1932 received from the college of physicians and surg- eons, affiliated with that university, his degree of Doctor of Medicine.
His internship Dr. Gale passed at St. Mary's Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, from 1932 to 1934, and in the latter year he came to Suffolk County as resident physician at the Southside Hospital in Bay Shore. In 1935 he gave up his residency at the hospital to establish himself in private practice at Lindenhurst, where in the in- tervening years to the present he has served a widen- ing circle' of patients. Dr, Gale serves on the staffs of both of the hospitals with which he was formerly associated, being on the urology staff of St. Mary's and the surgical staff at Southside.
During World War II Dr. Gale served as a flight surgeon with the Twelfth Air Force, being stationed for some two and a half years in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. In June of 1942 he was com- missioned a first lieutenant, and in the following year was promoted to the rank of captain. He was sepa- rated from active service by honorable discharge in October, 1945.
Dr. Gale is now serving as school physician of School District No. 4 of the village of Lindenhurst. He belongs to the Suffolk County Medical Society and the American Medical Association, as well as to the New York State Medical Society. He also holds membership in the Aero-Medical Association and in the Association of Military Surgeons. He is a mem- ber of the American Legion, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, of the Air Force Association and Catholic War Veterans. Of the Roman Catholic Reli- gion, he is a communicant of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Lindenhurst, and belongs to the Catholic fraternal order of the Knights of Columbus. Another of his active interests is the Lions Club of Lindenhurst. His favorite recreations are, outdoors, golf; indoors, bridge
At Bay Shore, Suffolk County, New York, on June 20, 1936, Julius P. Gale married Marie Hall of
New York City, a daughter of Robert Hall and Loretta Beucler. The two children of this marriage are: I. Richard Alan, who was born in the South Side. Hospital at Bay Shore on October 5, 1940. 2. Ronald Edward, born at Bay Shore on October 28, 194I.
ALBERT P. WARNER-Long prominent in the business life of Riverhead, Suffolk County, Albert P. Warner is the owner and operator of a prosperous wholesale oil and gas business as well as of a success- ful plumbing and heating business.
Mr. Warner, born in Aquebogue, Suffolk County, on August 19, 1909, is the son of Terry M. and Marjorie (Fanning) Warner. Both the Warner and Fanning families passed on to him an American heri- tage dating back to the early seventeenth century.
Albert P. Warner attended public school in River- head and was graduated from the high school there in 1927. Following his high school career, he was em- ployed by the Radio Corporation of America and for the next five years travelled through New York and New Jersey in construction work for this company. In 1932 he entered the gas and oil business in Riverhead, the beginning of many years of constant service to the people in his community. The following year, 1933, he became associated with a trucking concern and until 1944 ran both businesses with considerable success. In 1944, after selling his interest in trucking, Mr. Warner expanded his oil business by the purchasing of the sixty year old Sawyer Brothers oil business and then in the early part of 1946 continued his expansion in business, although in an associated line by buying the plumbing and heating business of John Stonebank and Sons, a successful enterprise for fifty-three years. Mr. Warner's foresight and business acumen has enabled him to expand his organizations during the post-war period when most other com- panies were primarily interested in retrenchment programs. Today, Albert P. Warner is a large dis- tributor of fuel oil, gasoline, kerosene, and oil burn- ing heating equipment, and operates one of the lead- ing plumbing and heating concerns in the area.
Mr. Warner is a member of the Riverhead Rotary Club and Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He is a past president of the local Chamber of Com- merce, was the Eastern Suffolk County chairman for the Committee of Economic Development, and belongs to the Suffolk County Retail Gas Dealers' Association, and the Nassau and Suffolk Oil Burner and Fuel Deal- ers Association.
During World War II, he rendered valuable active service in the defense of his country by serving with the Coast Guard Auxiliary at Hampton Bays.
Albert P. Warner, on October 15, 1927, married Estelle (Daly) Warner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daly at Center Moriches. Mr. and Mrs. Warner are the parents of three daughters: I. Mary Shirley, born December 6, 1928, at Riverhead. She was for a while the fifth living generation in the family. She was graduated from the Riverhead High School in 1946. 2. Jacqueline Ann, born March 21, 1934. 3. Patricia Estelle, born August 31, 1937.
GIUSEPPE (GEORGE) S. ZUCCALA-One of the leading serologists and medical technologists in in the United States, Dr. Giuseppe (George) S. Zuc- cala of Huntington is best known for the part he played in the development of antigenic serums for asthma- "Polygen" and "Phylaxine"-serums which in 1947 were rapidly winning national and international atten- tion and recognition after a record of success on Long
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Island and in the Northeast in general. Dr. Zuccala, among other things, is director of the Huntington Medical Laboratory, where the serums were perfected, and Kenwood Clinical Laboratory, in Great Neck. Among his collaborators in development and testing were Dr. W. F. Hollander of the Carnegie Institute, one of America's foremost bacteriologists, Dr. Carl V. Granger, prominent physician at Huntington Station, and Dr. L. A. Terman, of Chicago. Dr. Frank C. Cio- fore wrote several articles on asthma. Dr. Zuccala's work on serology brought him such recognition that in 1946 he was elevated to the Council of Serology of the American College of Medical Technologists, which he has also served as chairman. Aside from the re- searches which led to the development of the asthma serum, Dr. Zuccala has done studies in cancer, vene- real diseases and in other fields of medicine. Though he has four degrees, two of them doctorates, he is not a doctor of medicine. In this respect he compares with such men as Louis Pasteur or Dr. Wassermann, a chemist and serologist whose immortal fame in the field of medicine rests upon revolutionary contribu- tions to serology and who was not himself a doctor of medicine. In both World Wars I and II Dr. Zuccala served in the United States Army Medical and Sanitary Corps.
Dr. Zuccala was born in Glen Cove, in the town of Oyster Bay, on October 19, 1897. His Italian-born parents christened him Giuseppe, but he has always been better known to all as George. The parents were Philip Leonard Zuccala and Anna Maria Cianci- olo Di Aidone. His father was the grandson of Eugenio L. Zuccala, dean of the University of Pavia, Italy, oldest institution of higher learning in the world. Philip Leonard Zuccala, who came to the United States in his youth, was a successful build- ing contractor on Long Island as well as a pioneer im- porter and exporter. As an operator in foreign trade lie dealt in such mechandise as oils, wines, silks and sulphur. He was part owner of the St. Joseph Sulphur Mines at Pintura Aidone, Italy.
Dr. G. S. Zuccala, after attending Washington Irv- ing High School in New York City, went to Italy. At Termoli he was a student in the Reggio Insti- tuto Technico and at Aidone, and he studied at St. Dominic Convent for the Italian language. Return- ing to the United States, he continued his studies at the Physicians and Surgeons College of Microbiology, Chicago, Illinois. He then came back to his native state and enrolled as a special student in the New York University College of Medicine, where he pur- sned such studies as bacteriology, serology, hemotology and biological chemistry. Transferring to Columbia University, he took work in laboratory technology. While at Columbia, he became president of the Co- lumbia University Night Student Club. To round out his education, he spent a period at Southwestern College, Dallas, Texas. The list of his degrees in- cludes Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Medical Technology, Fellow of the American College of Medical Technolo- ogy and Member of the Guild, the highest honor in this college.
Dr. Zuccala obtained his first practical experience under the emergency conditions of war. This was in World War I, in which he was a first lieutenant attached to Base Hospital No. 90 at Chaumont, France, to which he went as a member of the Ameri- can Expeditionary Forces. He was assigned to duties in the base hospital's laboratory. He spent the next
years in various private and public laboratories, in hospitals and with the New York State Department of Health. He was with that department for ten years as a technical assistant. In time he became chief serologist at the Steffen Biological Laboratory, in New York City. Later, he obtained License No. I and became the first medical technologist to es- tablish a laboratory in Nassau County. This was at Glen Cove in 1926. In 1940 he opened the first medical and clinical laboratory in Suffolk County- the Huntington Medical Laboratory. This has be- come the scene of his most important work. He had hardly established himself at Huntington when the United States was propelled into World War II. Commissioned a captain, he served in the Medical and Sanitation, Department at Mitchel Field. He is now a member of the Medical Corps Officers Re- serve.
Aside from the routine laboratory work which came to him from the medical profession, the pharma- ceutical field and the laiety, Dr. Zuccala launched himself into research into fields which Wassermann and Ehrlich had delved, into cancer and respiratory conditions, especially asthma.
One day in 1940, a friend of his, Philip Luck- rella, a fellow member of the American Legion, de- livered some furniture to the laboratory at 22 High Street, just off New York Avenue, in Huntington Station. "He had an asthmatic streak and hoped some day someone would discover some relief for this dreadful disease," Dr. Zuccala recalls. The re- mark started Dr. Zuccala on a line of extended questioning. He was to spend the next ten years and $26,000 of his own, and borrowed money seeking the answers. First he learned that, although much medical research had been undertaken in asthma, relatively little in the way of positive treatment had been accomplished.
In the summer of 1941, with the cooperation of Dr. Hollander and Dr. Granger, Dr. Zuccala worked on the theory that the sputum of the asthmatic patient might furnish the clue for treatment. The use of autogenous (self-produced) bacterial vaccine for asth- ma had for many years been considered of little or no value, although some observers had reported that good results had been obtained, especially with children. For six months the three mnen worked to find some specific asthma organism, but failed. Ap- proaching financial bankruptcy but still undiscouraged, Dr. Zuccala then began research work along the lines of a complement fixation reaction. Animals and ap- paratus were bought and relatives and friends again dunned for the money with which to continue. After many months Dr. Zuccala found that an anti- genic reaction could be obtained from the expectora- tion of an asthmatic sufferer during an attack. The antigen, Dr. Zuccala learned, was a specific only for the particular patient from whom it was obtained.
After several antigens were made, the problem was to find a physician to try them. Local and out- of-town physicians were approached, pharmaceutical concerns and research institutions were contacted, but Dr. Zuccala and Dr. Hollander, then the only collaborators, were rebuffed. One evening a young Negro boy from Huntington Station entered the laboratory to complain that thus far nothing had been sucessful in ameliorating his acute asthmatic condition. Dr. Zuccala suggested that if his physi- cian would agree, his antigenic vaccine would be
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used. The boy's doctor, it developed, was Carl V. Granger, who, upon being consulted, agreed to use the vaccine. After five injections the young patient showed remarkable improvement. After ten injec- tions, covering a period of approximately twenty- five days, the patient no longer suffered his asthma- tic attacks.
Encouraged by this success, Dr. Zuccala, with the approval of Dr. Granger, tried his injections on other patients. Again there were favorable and encouraging results. One doctor told another and several tried the injections successfully. On April 1, 1946, Dr. Zuccala sent out a letter to doctors in Suffolk and Nassau counties informing them of his new discovery. Sev- eral doctors tried the antigen on their worst cases, and all reports were favorable. According to the story released by the American College of Medical Techno- logists, seventy per cent of the cases on which the antigen was tried were completely cured, twenty per cent were greatly relieved and ten per cent showed some improvement. All this work had been performed without publication or compensation. On May 24, 1946, at the convention of the American College of Medical Technologists in the Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, Dr. Zuccala presented his paper relat- ing the story of the discovery. The serum has since been hailed as giving almost complete relief from agonizing asthmatic attacks. At the convention Dr. Zuccala, already a Fellow of the College, was ele- vated to the Council on Serology. Also he was ap- pointed to the Master Guild of the College of Medi- cal Technologists.
Dr. Zuccala then began devoting himself to two important projects relating to his discovery. One was his application to the American Medical Asso- ciation to arrange the reading of his paper on his asthmatic work to the convention of that organiza- tion. The other was application to the National Advi- sory Health, Council of the Public Health Administra- tion for a grant-in-aid of $15,000 to continue his re- search work. "While the antigen has been perfected," Dr. Zuccala says, "it still takes time to achieve the proper strength and effectiveness. It now takes me three days to perform the distillation process. I should be able to do it in three hours." The money obtained from the Public Health Administration would be spent on centrifugal apparatus, filters, pumps and other needed equipment. To Dr. Hollander, Dr. Granger, Dr. Herbert G. Carter, Dr. Firenze, Dr. Ciafore, Mr. and Mrs. James Bolton, his brother Angelo, Mrs. C. D. Smithers, the F. F. Davidson family, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zanfino, Miss Gertrude Horan, Mr. Louis Brunneti, and Mrs. Harry Warshay, Dr. Zuccala attributes much of his success because of their aid, encouragement and pres- cription of the antigenic treatment to asthmatic pa- tients. In 1947 the Huntington Medical Laboratory was still the only one in the nation equipped to pre- pare the antigen. Orders were coming for the serum from various parts of the country and Italy, France and Ireland. Experiments were begun in that year to ascertain whether a successful antigen could be made from specimens sent from England and Italy via air mail. The antigen was still a specific only for the particular patient from which the specimen came.
In addition to his affiliation with the American College of Medical Technologists, Dr. Zuccala is a member of the New York Association of Directors of Medical Laboratories, of which he has also been librarian; of the New York Association of Clinical
Laboratory Technicians, of which he is likewise libra- rian; the American Legion, of which he is historian; the Veterans of Foreign Wars, of which he is sur- geon; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, and the Holy Name Society of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also a war veteran.
Dr. Zuccala married Paulina F. Belo, daughter of Chevalier Antonio and Amalia (Lenti) Belo, at As- toria, on September 26, 1926. Mrs. Zuccala's mother, a member of the celebrated Medici family of Italy, was a "Donna di Corte," or lady in waiting to the Royal House of Savoy of Italy. Dr. and Mrs. Zuccala are the parents of two daughters: Grazia Teresa and Ramona Amalia, both born in Astoria, the form- er on April 15, 1927, the latter on September 17, 1929. Both are graduates of St. Dominic's High School, Oyster Bay, and, to obtain a knowledge of the lan- guage and customs of South America, both may attend college in Argentina. They plan later to con- tinue their education in an American College.
Dr. Zuccala has done a great deal of writing about serology and his discoveries. In 1928 he published a paper called "Faulty Wasserman Reaction" in "The Medical Record" in the "Journal of the American Medical Technologist." April, 1945, his article "Hem- olytic Reaction in Human Sera" appeared in the "Journal of the American Medical Technologist." In July, 1945, the same publication carried his paper on "A Note on the Wasserman Test." The Medical Record for February, 1947, carried still another article, "Asthma Serum Discovery."
Dr. Zuccala is now conducting further research with Doctor C. Alberto Carradori, of Livorno, Italy; Dr. Mariano Capitummino, of Torino, Italy; Dr. Vittorio de Filippis, of Varese, Italy; Dr. Befani, of Siena; Dr. Tiffeneau of Paris; Dr. Stefano, Professor Cesare Frugoni, Professor Serafino, and Drs. Floro Giunti and Giammusso, of Italy. All work on cancer research based upon the Zuccala theory of comple- ment fixation in standardizing injections of antigens in the human body, a revolution in the entire medical profession, which will open many doors in the pro- gress of medicine.
REV. ANTHONY L. HOLZHEIMER-Since his ordination, the Rev. Father Anthony L. Holzheimer's work as a priest has been entirely in Long Island communities, and it was with great satisfaction that the congregation of the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help at Lindenhurst received the appointment of this devoutly religious man and able administrator as their pastor.
Father Holzheimer is a son of the late Frederick Holtzheimer and his wife the former Caroline Rip- perger, both of whom were natives of Brooklyn in the days of the independent cityhood of that borough of Greater New York. Anthony L. Holtzheimer was born in the city of New York on June 13, 1900, but in 1910 the family moved to Brooklyn, where Fred- erick Holtzheimer conducted a large laundry busi- ness. In that borough the young Anthony L. was chiefly educated. It was there that he attended Cathedral College and later, having felt a call to the priesthood, St. John's Seminary, where he was or- dained on December 23, 1923, by The Most Rev. Thomas E. Molloy, Bishop of Brooklyn.
Following his ordination, and in the same year, Fr. Holtzheimer was appointed curate at the church of Saints Joachim and Anne at Queens Village, Queens
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County. Here remained until 1926, when he was made curate at the church of Our Lady of The Cenacle at Richmond Hill in the Borough of Queens, New York City. In 1931 he was transferred from Richmond Hill to Rosedale, Long Island, where he became cu- rate at St. Clare's Church, a post he was destined to hold until 1947.
It was on May 15 in the latter year that Father Holtzheimer was advanced to the pastorate of Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in populous Linden- hurst, where he succeeded the Rev. Father Paul Faustmann.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church was estab- lished August 15, 1871 and Father Schneider was the first pastor. The present school was erected in 194I by Father Farrenkopf. Sisters of St. Dominic are the present teachers.
To the work and cares of this suburban parish in Suffolk County Father Holtzheimer brings the quali- ties needed for successful administration and further- ing of the work of religion, and from the cares of this charge he finds relaxation and recreation at times in a game of golf, which he greatly enjoys.
FRANK J. FUHRMAN-Identified with a variety of enterprises during his business career, Frank J. Fuhrman has been, since 1920, a partner in the Swezey Coal and Feed Company of Patchogue, Long Island.
He was born in New York City September 17, 1881, and received his education in the schools of Brooklyn, coming to Patchogue December 10, 1906. His business life started in 1900 as a clerk with Rus- sell and Irwin, hardware firm of New York City. In 1903 he became associated with Acker, Merrill, and Company, New York City, wholesale and retail gro- cers, as head shipping clerk, remaining until 1906, when he came to Patchogue, where he purchased the Patchogue Hygienic Ice and Cold Storage Company which he operated until 1924. At this time he sold the firm to the Knickerbocker Ice Company, and be- came a permanent partner in the Swezey Coal and Feed Company, with which he had been associated since 1920. The other officers of the organization in- clude Nathaniel N., and Elizabeth Swezey, and Frank A. Fuhrman, son of the partner. Mr. F. J. Fuhrman is also trustee of the Union Savings Bank of his town, and president of the Board of Education of School District No. 24. His fraternal affiliations include the Elks of Patchogue; the Mistletoe Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons, No. 647, of Brooklyn; Suwas- set Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons, No. 195 of Patchogue, Patchogue Commandery No. 65 of the Knights Templar, and Kismet Temple, Ancient Ara- bic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
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