I argue that death is not a pre-requisite to being an outstanding human being; hence, I submit Dr. Dunn, David will be 95 years of age shortly, and can well provide his own biography. Of course one can be goulish and wait, but accuracy may be harmed by the delay.

Dr. Dunn was the first, or one of the first physicians, to volunteer for military service in W.W. II, He had a distinguished career in the E.T.O.

pre and post Normandy invasion. He does not wear this on his sleeve, this this should be gathered by first hand interview.

Dr. Dunn was the first board certified surgeon to practice in Erie. He brought us surgery of national level competence and installed ethical and intellectual facets of first rate medical practice into the community, He trained many outstanding surgeons, some living, some gone, to serve the community. He was the "doctors doctor"...his colleagues and family's turned to him in crises. I recall that in the 1950s Dr. W.W.Maclachlan, emeritus professor of medicine at Pitt, had an acute appendicitis while in North East. Dr. Dunn did the surgery. Dr. Machlachlan mused to me :"wish we had a surgeon like Dr. Dunn in Pittsburgh."

Dr. Dunn was never arrogant, he never turned away the poor or dispossessed.

He was, and is, a man of many interests. Dr. Dunn developed the technique, now used nationally, of doing hernia repair under local anaesthesis.He was a prime factor in Hamot becoming a first rate institution. Dr. DUNN WAS CO_FOUNDER OF THE LOCAL HOSPICE PROGRAM and had great input into hospice nationally.

I submit that an exception to the rule of "being deceased" should be waived in the interest of completeness and accuracy.

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