Ellsworth C. “Buster” Alvord, Jr

Abstract

> “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” > > Sir Isaac Newton Ellsworth C. “Buster” Alvord, Jr, was born on May 9, 1923, in Washington, DC, and died on January 19, 2010, in Seattle, WA, a devoted husband to Nancy for 66 years, beloved father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, dear friend, generous benefactor, outstanding neuropathologist, and past president of the American Association of Neuropathologists (1964). Buster received his BS in January 1944 from Haverford College (Phi Beta Kappa) and his MD from Cornell University (Alpha Omega Alpha) in March 1946, followed by internship and residency in pathology at The New York Hospital where he held his first faculty position as Assistant in Pathology (1947-1948). It was during this early period that Buster's interest in immunologic-mediated injury to the central nervous system began. Indeed, his second publication was coauthored with LD Stevenson, “Allergy in the Nervous System, A Review of the Literature” (1). Buster, Nancy, and their young family moved from New York to the Washington, DC, area where he continued his training with a residency …