Background
Spurr, Charles Lewis was born on November 20, 1913 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Clayton and Catherine Irene (Roberts).
Spurr, Charles Lewis was born on November 20, 1913 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Clayton and Catherine Irene (Roberts).
Bachelor of Science, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1935. Master of Science, University Rochester, 1938. Doctor of Medicine, University Rochester, 1940.
Instructor University Chicago, 1943-1946, assistant professor, 1946-1948. Associate professor Baylor University, Houston, 1949-1957. Professor medicine Bowman Gray School Medicine Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1957-1987, emeritus, 1987-1994, director Oncology Research Center, 1968-1982.
North Carolina national delegate American Cancer Society, New York City, 1980-1982, chairman board North Carolina division, 1985-1986. Chairman Committee on Cancer, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1981-1985. President Southeast Cancer Control Consortium, Inc.
Member Community Clinical Oncology Program, advisory committee National Cancer Institute, 1988-1994. Member executive committee National Surgical Adjuvant Project for Breast and Bowel Cancers, 1988-1994. Member investigator Cancer and Leukemia Group B, 1958-1980.
Served to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1952. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Medical Association, American Association Cancer Education, American Society Clinical Oncology, Piedmont Oncology Association (chairman 1976-1985), American Association Cancer Research, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha Clubs: Old Town.
Son of; married Isabelle Marie Holtzinger, June 18, 1940. Children: Charles Lewis, Susanne Spurr Green.