Background
Phelps, Harvey William was born on June 27, 1922 in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. Son of Harvey Jay and Honor Twinet (Wright) Phelps.
Phelps, Harvey William was born on June 27, 1922 in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. Son of Harvey Jay and Honor Twinet (Wright) Phelps.
Bachelor of Science, Idaho State College, 1946. Doctor of Medicine Saint Saint Louis University, 1949.
Intern, Brooke General Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1949-1950. Resident in internal medicine Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, 1951-1954. Practice medicine specializing in internal medicine, since 1954.
Commissioned First lieutenant United States Army, 1949, advanced through grades lieutenant colonel, 1961.
Chief medical service United States Army Hospital, Fort MacArthur, California, 1955-1957. Assistant chief pulmonary disease service Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, 1958-1959.
Chief department medicine United States Army Medical Center, Japan, 1959-1962. Consultant internal medicine to Surgeon, United States Army, Japan, 1959-1962.
Consultant pulmonary disease Tri-Service, Japan, 1959-1962.
Chief department medicine DeWitt Army Hospital, FortBelvoir, Virginia, 1963-1965. Chief pulmonary disease service Valley Forge General Hospital, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 1965-1966, retired, 1966. Director inhalation therapy Saint Mary-Corwin Hospital and Parkview Episcopal Hospital, Pueblo, Colorado, 1966-1978.
Pueblo County coroner, 1967-1976.
Consultant disease of the chest Colorado Eastern State Hospital, 1966-1976. Director Southern Colorado State College associate degree program in respiratory therapy, 1971.
Regent U. Colorado, since 1988. Member Colorado State Senate, 1976-1985.
Member Colorado State Air Pollution Variance Board, 1967-1976. Fellow American College of Physicians (Colorado Laureate 1989), American College Chest Physicians. Member American Medical Association, Colorado State Medical Society (delegate since 1970, Community Service award 1980), Pueblo County Medical Society, Masons, Shriners.
Married Adah Lucile Godbold, September 1, 1948. Children: Castle Wright, Stuart Harvey, Martha Gail.