John Herbert Waite

Background

Waite, John Herbert was born on November 24, 1889 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Sitman and Mary Lucetta (Bottorf) Waite.

Education

Student Pennsylvania State College, 1907-1908. Bachelor of Science, in Biology, Bucknell University, 1911, Sc.M., 1919, Doctor of Science (honorary), 1936. Doctor of Medicine Harvard University Medical School, 1916.

Career

David H. Scott); married second, Florence East. Long, September 20, 1919;(Mistress Bruce A. MacDonald). In Far East service, Rockefeller Foundation, 1916-1919. Interne, resident, teaching fellow in ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1920-1924.

Instructor in ophthalmology, Harvard, 1925-1929, assistant professor, 1930-1934, clinical professor and head of department, 1934-1940, lecturer in ophthalmology since 1941.

Ophthalmic chief of staff Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1931-1941, consultant surgeon in ophthalmology since 1941. Consultant in ophthalmology Peter Bent Brigham, Children’s and Infants’, North.E. Deaconess, North.E.

Achievements

• John Herbert Waite has been listed as a noteworthy ophthalmologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Massachusetts Medical Society. Member American Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ophthalmol. Society, North.E. Ophthalmol.

Society.

Member Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta, Nu Sigma Nu. Member editorial board Archives of Ophthalmology, 1929-1942. Member board honorary consultants Army Medical Library, 1946.

Connections

Married Marion South. Kennedy, February 4, 1916 (died 1917). Married second, Florence East. Long, September 20, 1919. Children: (twins) John H. and Joanne (wife Doctor.

Father:

John Sitman Waite

Mother:

Mary Lucetta (Bottorf) Waite

Spouse:

Florence East. Long

Spouse:

Marion South. Kennedy

child:

(twins) John H. and Joanne (wife Doctor Waite