Thursday, February 18, 2010
Thomas L. Snyder graduated from Albany Medical College in New York, interned in surgery in Chicago, and served three years of active duty as Squadron Medical Officer, and as General Medical Officer at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Afterwards, he completed his residency in urology at Rush Medical College, and having been inspired by "The Winds of War," he joined the Navy Reserve, from which he retired 24 years later. Returning to California, he practiced and administered at Kaiser-Permanente for twenty years. Tom has sought to combine his medical and military interests, along with his first love, history. Tom is co-founder and Executive Director of the Society for the History of Navy Medicine. He recently served as Surgeon General of the Naval Order of the United States. He is married to Regina Pecora Kotch, whose maternal Italian-American roots run deep in the fertile soil of Pennsylvania's Conyngham Valley. They have two adult sons, both of whom consider themselves, in no uncertain terms, to be Italian-Americans. Tom's topic today is "The Naval Hospitals at Mare Island: 1854-1957."
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