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Delegate Magazine Salutes Les Alexander [[Image]] DR. LESLIE ALEXANDER of Brooklyn, New York and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts has been elected Vice-President of the prestigious American College of Radiology. A former president of the Brooklyn Radiology Society and Councilor to the College of New York Roentgen Society, he had been a member of the College's Board of chancellors for five years, as well as chairman of its Commission on Public Health and Radiation Protection. A product of the New York City public school system, he had been a member of many other championship teams. Some of these included the track team (40 yard dash) under Coach Cosgrove at P.S. 89 of Manhattan; varsity track (50 yard dash) at Frederick Douglass J.H.S. (P.S. 139) under Coach Rip Day; basketball city championship Harlem Y.M.C.A "Midgets" (1929-31); George Washington H.S. swimming city champions (breast stroke); Harlem Y.M.C.A. senior basketball city champions; and a member of the national championship Morris Brown College football squad under coaches Billy Nicks and Artie P. Graves in 1940. His greatest championship effort, however, was as a second lieutenant (Coast Artillery Corps-Anti-Aircraft) on Saipan, Mariannas during World War II when his platoon captured four Japanese soldiers while on a secondary infantry mission. (He was pleasantly surprised to find four small red and yellow Nipponese flags painted over Battery Headquarters early the next morning!) Dr. Alexander received his B.A. and master's degrees from New York University, and the M.D. degree from Harvard University. After and internship at Harlem Hospital in New York City he completed radiology training at and American Board of Radiology certification at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn. He presently is professor of radiology at the College of Medicine, Health Services Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Chief of Radiation Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center in Jamaica, New York. Dr. Alexander also has been active in local and national medicinal politics. He has served as associate treasurer of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He was treasurer of the National Medical Association for five years, and has been Assistant Editor of the N.M.A. Journal since 1970. He was also designated the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year by Howard University College of Medicine in 1978. In addition to service as visiting professor of radiation therapy at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, he has served as consultant to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Brooklyn, the Bureau of Radiological Health of the New York State Department of Health in Albany, as well as to the National Academy of Sciences and three branches of the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington, D.C. during 1968 through 1984. He has published some 147 scientific papers in the medical literature, and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society. His other fraternities includes Phi Beta Sigma, Chi Delta Mu Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Fraternity, and Sigma Pi Phi (Boule) Fraternity. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American College of Radiology. He is also active in the New York Cancer Society, the Association of University Radiologists, the American Radium Society, the Radiological Society of North America, and the Brooklyn Comus Society. He is married to the former Nora Maria Atkins of Washington, D.C. She is a U.S. Public Health Service registered nurse. They have five sons. DELEGATE MAGAZINE salutes Les Alexander!! [[image]] Nora and Les Alexander at American College of Radiology convention reception in Denver (1983). [[image]] The "Y" Seniors, who won the New York City Y.M.C.A. championship for the third consecutive year, are shown above. They won 32 and lost 3. Reading from left to right are: Tommy Willis, Mel Glover, Al Harris Gummy Crawford, Shanley Smellie, Eddie Willis, Les Alexander, Owen Cross, Captain Puggy Bell, Ace Sherrer, Hubey Gaskin and Joe Campbell. Page 164
