John Hager WULSIN

WULSIN

John Hager, 94, husband and father, surgeon and horseman, died at his home in the company of his family on July 20, 2014. Born and raised in Cincinnati, the third of seven children of Lucien and Margaret Wulsin, he decided as a young boy to become a doctor instead of working in the family business, the Baldwin Piano Company. He attended Cincinnati Country Day School, Le Rosey, the St George's School in Newport Rhode Island, Harvard College, and graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1944. After marrying Rosamond Foster Reed in 1942 at Calvary Episcopal Church, he served as a medical officer in World War II 1945-46 on the USS LST 243 and at the USMC 5th Service Depot in Guam. During the Korean War from 1953-54 he was stationed at the US Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan, living in nearby Yokohama with his wife and three children. He attained the rank of Captain in the US Naval Reserves. After completing his residency in surgery at the Cincinnati General Hospital 1947-56 and a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital 1958, he served on the faculty of the Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, until his retirement in 1985, working primarily as a general surgeon at the Cincinnati General Hospital, Holmes Hospital, the Veterans Administration Hospital, and Christ Hospital. He served for 20 years on the UC College of Medicine Admissions Committee, including three years as chair. For 61 years he was married to Rosamond, the mother of his five children, and was her sole caretaker in the final years before she died in 2003. In 2005 he married Anne Durant Sanger, of Bozrah, Connecticut. He is survived by his wife, his children John, Jr (Spring Valley, NY), Lawson (Cincinnati), Drausin (Cynthiana, OH), Reed (South Amherst, MA), and Stockton (Cincinnati), 13 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Peggy Kite (Cincinnati) and Betsy Bennett (Vancouver, BC). As a boy he often spent Sundays riding long hours with his father on Indian Hill trails. In 1957 he moved to Indian Hill where he tended to his stable of horses for the next forty years. For most of his adult life he rode regularly with the Camargo Hunt Club, as whip and later as Master. In his spare time, he built tables, desks, and shelves in his basement shop, always as gifts, often carving the recipient's initials. As a long-time member and regular attender of The Literary Club, he presented over 25 papers there. Donations in his memory may be made to the Henry R Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions, PO Box 670574, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574. Funeral services will be held at the Church of the Advent, Kemper Rd, on August 2 at 10 am, with a reception following at his home, 8405 Spooky Hollow Rd, 45242.

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