Book Five Dr Phil Utz, MD

Chapter One is an interview with Dr Phil Utz, now 90 years old, but when he was a junior and senior at Notre Dame, he lived across the hall from Tom Dooley. They both hung out together and continued their friendship in med school. Phil was at Tom's funeral. Phil was 35 when Tom died.

 

Chapter Two is an interview with Dr Phil Utz, now 90 years old, but when he was a junior and senior at Notre Dame, he lived across the hall from Tom Dooley. He was Dr Tom Dooley's best friend in college. They both hung out together and continued their friendship in med school. Phil was at Tom's funeral. Phil was 35 when Tom died. Phil Utz, MD  Dr Tom Dooley's best friend in college.

 


Chapter Three This is the Marnie Baxter story. Marnie Baxter was the daughter of the owner of Baxter Laboratories. She is named by Phil and in all other written accounts her name is not used. This indicates that Phil is a closer source. On June 4th approx Baxter Laboratories donated what was essentially an entire start up, jungle hospital donation.

 

 

Chapter Four The Veiled Prophet Ball in St Louis. Tom's regular role in it. The Veiled Prophet Ball was a coming out party in St Louis for the children of the elegantly wealthy. It dates back to the mid 1800s. It is now defunct. St Louis had prospered during the railroad era. And Tom's grandfather was right up there at the top. His grandfather headed a company that made as many cars as Pullman Railroad Cars. There was no way to get across the Mississippi, except by ferry. So all the railroad cars had to be made in St Louis. All the railroad cars that took people and goods West were made in St Louis. Tom Dooley, Sr, Toms grandfather was a leader in that executive group, serving a chief excutive and a total of 53 years in the business, from carpenter to CEO.

 


 

Chapter Five. The dean announced that he was expelling Tom Dooley from the class, saying that he did not feel that Tom was committed to being a physician, because, among other minor things, he wore his riding clothes to class. The expulsion by the new dean from Johns Hopkins was without any form of deliberation, but once announced, the negotiation must have begun, because Tom was not expelled. But he had to repeat his senior year, actually graduating in Feb, when getting an internship job would be very hard. He was denied participation in graduation with his classmates in 1952. But Tom's family physician, Dr Alphonse McMahon was a retired admiral in the Navy during W W II and he got Tom a job at Camp Pendleton. Tom had already been in the Navy for two years, from November of his freshman year to the summer between years two and three. Had this type of intercession not taken place, Tom may never have become a licensed physician. While this nightmare was hanging over his head, he drove to Ann Arbor to seek solace from his best friend Dr Phil. Dr Phil tells the story. Since the San Francisco story includes Tom in uniform, it could not have taken place before Tom graduated from med school. So probably Tom could very well have said what he did because he was still very sore about what happened, and the med school could not hurt him anymore.

 

 


Chapter Six Dr Phil tells us about Tom telling him of the San Francisco story, which ended up making national news, involving the rescue of victims of a boat accident in San Francisco Bay.

 

 

Chapter Seven Dr Phil tells us about Tom's kindness to a disabled vet on campus while at ND.

 

 

 

Chapter Eight Dr Phil tells us about Tom's funeral which he attended.

 

 

Chapter Nine Dr Phil tells us what Tom was like on a daily basis, and refutes the supposition that Tom was a "skiver", i.e. a person who left the campus to party on weekends, without permission. Phil and Tom took the same premed classes, and Phil never noticed anything consistent with the notion that Tom was anything less than a serious student. In other words, most weekends they went to a Saturday night movie because they had been doing homework all day then resting at night.