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3 unusual facts about Theodore C. Lyster


Theodore C. Lyster

After the death of Dr Gorgas, Lyster carried on his work with the Rockefeller Foundation (1920–24) of eliminating yellow fever from Mexico and Central America.

Lyster subsequently served as the Chief of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic at Ancon (Canal Zone) Hospital, Panama and Chief of the Eye Service in the University of Philippines, Manila.

William Kilpatrick Stewart

In 1956, Stewart was awarded the Sir Charles Wakefield Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and in 1961 the Theodore C. Lyster award of the Aerospace Medical Association of the United States.


2006 Danvers Chemical fire

"These people are extremely fragile," said state Rep. Ted Speliotis, D-Danvers, whose district includes the affected area.

Carl Tellefsen

Blegen, Theodore C. Norwegian Migration to America, The American Transition (Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1940)

Century Institute

Its faculty has included many late 20th Century progressivism, including Prof. William Julius Wilson, activist Todd Gitlin, academic Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and UN official Gillian Martin Sorensen and her husband, John F. Kennedy advisor and speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen.

Elise Wærenskjold

Blegen, Theodore C. Land of Their Choice: The Immigrants Write Home (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955)

Johan Reinert Reiersen

Blegen, Theodore C. Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860 (2 vols., 1931; 1940., New York: Haskell House, 1969)

Juliet Sorensen

Sorensen is the daughter of Theodore C. Sorensen (Ted Sorensen), the former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, and the author of Kennedy and Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, and Gillian M. Sorensen of the United Nations Foundation.

Keystone Motor Company of Philadelphia

But things went another way when a group of well-known Philadelphia business men (among them Theodore C. Search (1841–1920), head of the Stetson Hat Company) became aware of the company and it's well-engineered product.

Miyamoto-cho, Tokyo

Miyamoto-cho is a pseudonymous neighborhood in Tokyo, the subject of an ethnographic study of urban life in the late 1970s and early 1980s undertaken by the anthropologist Theodore C. Bestor in his book and film, both titled Neighborhood Tokyo.

Philadelphia University

In 1880, they formed the Philadelphia Association of Manufacturers of Textile Fabrics, with Theodore C. Search as its president, to fight for higher tariffs on imported textiles and to educate local textile leaders.

Searchmont Motor Company

It evolved in 1900 from the Keystone Motor Company of Philadelphia (1899–1900) when this company had been bought out by Theodore C. Search (1841–1920), head of the Stetson Hat Company), Spencer Trask and other local businessmen.

St. Olaf Kirke

Blegen, Theodore C. Norwegian Migration to America (2 vols., 1931; rpt., New York: Haskell House, 1969)

Theodore C. Bestor

Bestor first visited Japan in 1967, when his father received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the University of Tokyo, Rikkyo University, and Doshisha University.

Since the early 1990s his primary research has concerned Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market where he has studied the economic anthropology of institutions, and has focused also on food culture, globalization, and Japan's fishing industry.

His father, Arthur Bestor, was a historian of American 19th century communitarian settlements and of origins and development of the American constitution.

Theodore C. Blegen

He was the younger brother of noted archaeologist, Carl Blegen.


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