Even before the break of daylight and into the evening hours he was there for his students. We, his friends and colleagues, are grateful that he was there for us too. We each have poignant memories of his delightful loquacity, beautifully incisive wit, his gift for well-honed written words-often expressions of asperity in response to illconceived and short-sighted Administrative decisions. We remember, too, his love of fine music and literature. We regret the untimely departure and loss of Dr. Thomas A. Weidman, retired Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy of the Medical College of Georgia from the longterm effects of prostatic cancer. He is survived by his wonderful and wise wife Sharon, his sons Brent and Kirk, and two granddaughters Temple and Eden.
Dr. Weidman received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Illinois Wesleyan. After serving as a Lt. JG in the US Navy, he took an MS in Anatomy from the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago in 1963 and then a PhD in Anatomy from Kansas University Medical Center in 1968. His post-doctoral fellowship was pursued at Harvard University in the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology. His early career included positions at LSU in New Orleans, the University of Vermont, and the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo.
In 1975 he assumed the position of Associate Professor at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia. For more than two decades, Dr. Weidman demonstrated a superior grasp of each of the disciplines of Medical Gross Anatomy, Neuroscience (which he directed on several occasions), Embryology (which he directed), Histology, and Cell Biology. He possessed the consummate ability to integrate the basics and clinical applications of each of these into a seamless unity for medical students-from their initiation into the basic sciences and thereafter into their senior elective choices and specialized advanced programs for residents, particularly in Radiology and Neurosurgery.
His students over the years honored him time and again for his efforts in their behalf, presenting him with the award