We were once in doubt as to whether Milt would stand the biological gaff and go down the hill with the rest of us, but he fooled us and came through with wildly flying colors, just as he did on the board track - until the lab called more than the spikes. His passion for work is enormous, just like that of all these pre-medics and when he gets through four more years we know that he will make a real pill dispenser of note. But he has literary leanings too, and when he is not slicing up pigs, he may be found reading short-stories. That shows his broad mindedness, and proves that he is an all around fellow, to whom we wish the best.

Sidney A. Sumby Memorial Hospital, River Rouge, MI (1938-1987)
(a.k.a. Milton Community Hospital)

The hospital was founded in 1938 by Dr. Samuel B. Milton, a native of Washington, D. C. who earned his M.D. degree from Northwestern University and later became Wayne County Coroner.

The facility was named in honor of his late brother-in-law, also a physician, who died shortly after establishing his practice in Saginaw, MI.

In 1954, Mr. Herman J. Glass, Sr., the hospital's administrator, initiated a two-year general practice residency program. The residency program was fully accredited by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of General Practice.

Dr. Samuel Byron Milton '23, Lincoln Park, Mich., a long-time family practitioner and founder of Sumby Memorial Hospital in River Rouge, Mich.; March 17. Dr. Milton earned his M.D. from Northwestern in 1927. He was a trustee of the local school board and a director of both the Boy Scouts and the Beechwood Community Center, which was named after him in 1971. When elected coroner of Wayne County in Michigan in 1949, Dr. Milton became the first black to hold such a position in the state. Survivors include his wife, Isaure, 26560 West Outer Dr., Lincoln Park 48218; and one daughter.