Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

G U N D U Z G U C E R

Gunduz Gucer, M.D., Ph.D., was born on October 9, 1944. Gunduz died on January 17, 2004 at 59 years old.

D O U G L A S L . H U R L E Y

Dr. Douglas Lee Hurley, 63, died June 13, 2008, after a brief illness. Doug was born in Gainesville, Texas on September 20, 1944. On August 13, 1966, he married Marilynn McKinzie, and in 1971 they had one daughter, Jennifer Lynn Hurley. Doug graduated as valedictorian of Gainesville High School in 1962 and received a B.A. in English from Yale University, Davenport College in 1966. He earned his M.D. in 1970 from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also completed his medical internship and residency. He completed an externship at Guy’s Hospital in London, England, in 1968 and was assistant resident at Johns Hopkins in 1971 and 1972. From 1972 to 1975, he was a fellow in infectious disease at the National Institutes of Allergy and infectious disease in Bethesda, Maryland, where he specialized in fungal infections. He joined the staff of Scott & White Clinic and Hospital in 1975, and practiced there for thirty-three years. He was director of the Division of Infectious Disease from 1981 to 1995. He was active in numerous medical associations, including the AIDS Steering Committee of the Texas Hospital Association, the Texas Medical Association, the Society of Medical College Directors of Continuing Education, the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists, the American Society of Microbiology, and the Infectious Disease Society of America. His most active professional association was with the Texas Infectious Disease Society, which he served as Committee Chairman (1981-1983), Executive Council member (1984- 1986), and President (1987). He conducted clinical research, publishing papers in numerous medical journals throughout

his career. The part of his career he loved the most was teaching at Texas A&M University School of Medicine from 1977 to 2008, first as a lecturer and eventually as professor of medicine. He received the “Best Clinical Physician and Teacher in Medicine” award in 1987-1988 and 2006-2007. Doug was an active patron of and participant in the cultural life of Temple. As a frequent actor with the Temple Civic Theatre, he appeared in several productions, including “Stalag 17” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” In the late 1970s, he was president of the Central Texas Orchestral Society. He sang with the Temple Civic Chorus and the Second Sunday Supplement. As president of the Temple Civic Chorus, Doug participated in commissioning and singing “For All Mankind,” an Oratorio in honor of the tenth anniversary of man’s first landing on the moon, performed at the Cultural Activities Center in 1979. In 1998, he sang the Mozart Requiem with the Texas Festival Chorus at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Doug was one of the first male members of the Music Club of Temple. He endowed numerous music scholarships at Temple College, refinished the Temple Civic Theatre piano, and refurbished the 1924 Temple College Steinway. As an active supporter of the annual Rank Amateur night, Doug was one of the original cheerleaders. One of his proudest accomplishments in life was that he succeeded in getting the Temple Piano Ensemble, which he conducted for more than two decades, to watch the conductor close to a third of the time. Doug is survived by his daughter Jennifer Hurley, of Philadelphia. Marilynn Hurley died in a car accident in 1973. Doug was an avid reader and loyal supporter of the Temple Public Library.

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