Background
Baker, Lenox Dial was born on November 10, 1902 in DeKalb, Texas, United States. Son of James D. and Dorothy Hamilton (Lenox) Baker.
Baker, Lenox Dial was born on November 10, 1902 in DeKalb, Texas, United States. Son of James D. and Dorothy Hamilton (Lenox) Baker.
Student, St. Edwards College, Austin., Texas, 1912-1913; student, Pierce School Business Administration, Philadelphia, 1920-1921; student, Carver Chiropractic College, 1922-1924; student, University Tennessee, 1925-1929; student, School Medicine, U. North Carolina, 1929-1930; Doctor of Medicine Duke U., 1934.
Athletic trainer, U. Tennessee, 1925-1929;
assistant in zoology, U. Tennessee, 1927-1929;
athletic trainer, Duke U., 1929-1933;
official, Southern Football Conference, 1933-1940;
orthopaedic intern, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1933-1934;
surgical intern, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1934-1935;
assistant resident orthopaedics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1935-1936;
resident orthopaedics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1936-1937;
assistant, instructor orthopaedic surgery, school medical, Johns Hopkins University, 1935-1937;
assistant orthopaedics, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1937-1938;
associate, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1938-1939;
assistant professor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1940-1942;
associate professor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1942-1946;
professor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1947-1972;
emeritus, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1972-1995;
President's associate, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1974-1995;
orthopaedist, Duke Hospital, 1937-1972;
founder and director division physical therapy, Duke Hospital, 1943-1962;
co-operation orthopaedic surgeon crippled children's division, North Carolina Board Health
also vocational rehabilitation division, North Carolina Department Public Instruction, 1937-1974;
orthopaedist, Lincoln Hospital, 1937-1974;
trustee, Lincoln Hospital, 1939-1974;
Executive Committee, Lincoln Hospital, 1941-1974;
chairman of the executive committee, Lincoln Hospital, 1951-1974. Visiting orthopaedist Watts Hospital, 1937-1995. Faculty division public health and society work U. North Carolina., 1938-1941.
Founder, medical director Lenox Baker Children's Hospital North Carolina, Durham, 1949-1972, North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital, 1948-1995. Established Virginia Flowers Baker chair of Orthopaedic Surgery Duke U., 1968. Member governor's cabinet, secretary human resources, State of North Carolina, 1972;orthopaedic consultant to several hospitals, foundations, sanitaria, governmental agys.
Active in cerebral palsy work, president League for Crippled Children,1941-1943. Member North Carolina Board Health, 1956-1972, president, 1963-1968, vice president, 1968-1972.
Member American Medical Association (chairman orthopaedic section 1958-1959), and other national, regional, state, local professional and science organizations, including American Academy Cerebral Palsy (president 1954-1955), American Orthopaedic Association (president 1963-1964), Southern Medical Association (editorial committee 1960-1995, past. chairman orthopaedic section, Distinguished Service award 1990), Southern Surgical Association, Medical Society North Carolina (president 1959), North Carolina Orthopaedic Association (president 1947, Outstanding Service award 1990), Texas Orthopaedic Association (honorary), International Cerebral Palsy Society (special member), Guatemala Orthopaedic Association (honorary), International Society Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, North Carolina Genealogical Society (director 1974-1976, vice president 1978, president 1982-1983), Friends of Archives of North Carolina (president 1980-1995), Kentucky Colonel, Society of the Cincinnati, Wake Forest Monogram Club (honorary), Kappa Sigma, Nu Sigma Nu, Alpha Omega Alpha. Clubs: Hope Valley Country (Durham, North Carolina). Sertoma (honorary); Wake Forest University Monogram (honorary).
Son of James D. and Dorothy Hamilton (Lenox) B. M. Virginia Flowers, August 22, 1933 (deceased). Children: Robert Flowers, Lenox Dial.
M. Margaret Copeland, April 22, 1967 (deceased).