Sitting on a Three Legged Stool: The Story of a Doctor, Teacher and Family Man

Book excerpt: Unedited Draft - Clifford Straehley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1922. He attended the University of Michigan as a premedical student for three years. Prior to graduating with his bachelor's degree, Clifford was admitted to the Harvard Medical School and graduated cum laude in !946 . He went on to surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and later taught surgical students at Syracuse Medical School, Stanford Medical School, and at the University of Hawaii. Even with his impressive career history and resume, Clifford always regretted not finishing his undergraduate degree. When he entered his early eighties, he decided to enroll at St. Mary's College of California and earned his bachelor's degree in 2005 from St. Mary's College California at the tender age of eighty-four. Today Clifford resides in Walnut Creek, California with his beloved wife Marmie. He is the proud father and grandfather to three children and three grandchildren.