Dr. Christopher C. McClure, Sr., first radiologist in the South, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Radiology at Vanderbilt University, and one of the original members of the Atomic Energy Commission, died April 19, 1967, at Vanderbilt University Hospital. Dr. McClure was born in Dickerson, Penna., Nov. 12, 1892, but moved to Mobile, Ala., in early childhood. He received his M.D. degree from Vanderbilt in 1918 and, after completing his training in radiology at Post Graduate Hospital, New York, N. Y., and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass., in 1919 and 1920, returned to Nashville and founded the first Radiology Department in the South at Vanderbilt University Hospital. From March 1930 until August 1931, he took a leave of absence from Vanderbilt to aid the Radiology Department of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation after its disastrous fire. He retired from Vanderbilt as Emeritus Professor in 1958. In addition to his university appointment, Dr. McClure had numerous consulting appointments including membership on the first Atomic Energy Commission and Chief of the Radiological Section of the Veterans Administration for the Eastern United States. He also founded the first private radiology group in Nashville, Tenn. Dr. McClure was a member of the American Medical Association, the Radiological Society of North America, Alpha Omega Alpha, and the American Roentgen Ray Society, and was a Fellow of the American College of Radiology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology. While at Vanderbilt, Dr. McClure taught radiology to the senior medical students with a warmth, enthusiasm, and ability as a story-teller that were responsible for attracting many into the field of radiology. He was an organizer of Skull and Bones, Undergraduate Premedical Society, and gave generously of his time and interest to this organization. Dr. McClure was not only a renowned radiologist and outstanding teacher, but he was also a devoted family man, collector and designer of clocks, avid sports fan, Shriner, Thirty-second Degree Mason, and Exchange Club member. He was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church. His son, Christopher McClure, Jr., is a Nashville neurosurgeon. He is sadly missed by his many residents, students, and friends.