Background
Frye, William Wesley was born on July 26, 1903 in North English, Iowa, United States. Son of Cyrus Alexander and Martha E. (Sheetz) Frye.
Frye, William Wesley was born on July 26, 1903 in North English, Iowa, United States. Son of Cyrus Alexander and Martha E. (Sheetz) Frye.
Bachelor of Science, Iowa Wesleyan College, 1926. Master of Science, Iowa State College, 1927, Doctor of Philosophy, 1931. Doctor of Medicine Vanderbilt University, 1939.
Doctor of Science, Iowa Wesleyan College, 1957.
Instructor zoology, entomology Iowa State College, 1928-1931. Research assistant department preventive medicine, public health Vanderbilt University, 1931-1937, instructor, 1937, intern pediatrics Commonwealth Fund fellowship, 1939-1940, assistant professor department preventive medicine, public health, assistant clinical medicine, 1940-1942, associate professor, assistant clinical obstetrical, 1942-1945, professor, head department preventive medicine, public health, 1945-1948, director School Public Health, 1946-1948. Assistant dean, director division graduate medicine, professor tropical medicine, public health, Tulane University, 1948-1949.
Dean, professor tropical medicine, public health, Louisiana State University, 1949-1959 vice president, dean School of Medicine, 1959-1965, chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1965-1969, chancellor emeritus, 1969-1975.
Special consultant Texas Technology U. School Medicine, Lubbock, 1970-1973, dean, 1973-1975. Field trip tropical diseases Central American, 1943.
Member Cholera Commission China, 1945. Special consultant United States Public Health Service, since 1946, chairman tropical disease study section, research grants division, 1951-1956, chairman advisory committee Epidemiology and Biometry, 1956-1975.
Chairman combined deans committee Veterans Administration Hospital., New Orleans, 1949-1975.
Deputy director commission enteric infections Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1950-1956. Net. advisory allergy and infectious diseases council of National Institutions Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1958-1975.
Fellow American Medical Association, American Public Health Association, American College Physicians, 1951. Member American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (president 1960-1961), Southern Medical Association, Louisiana State, Orleans Parish medical societies, Louisiana State Public Health Association, American Gastroenterological Association, New Orleans Academy Internal Medicine, New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly, American Cancer Society (member of advisory committee Institutional Grants 1958-1960). American Society of Parasitologists, Louisiana Mental Health Association (president 1957-1959), American Academy Preventive Medicine, Omicron Delta Kappa, Delta Omega, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Lillian Emily Brown, April. Children: William Wesley, Emily Ann, Cynthia Brown, Martha Lois, Jane Ellen.