Dr. Harry Dickey Sewell, vice-president of the Huron Clinic and member of that organization since its inception in 1919, will leave Huron about the middle of June to accept a position with the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, N. Y. Dr. Sewell will be associated with Dr. W. A. Sawyer, chief of the medical service which is maintained by the company for its 25,000 employes.Dr. Sawyer was a classmate with Dr. Sewell in the medical college at the University of Pennsylvania from which they were both graduated in 1909.
"It is with a feeling of real and deep regret that I leave Huron after having lived here nearly a quarter of a century," Dr. Sewell declared in announcing his forthcoming departure, "but the opportunity, which came unsolicited, is not only attractive in itself, but will make it possible for Mrs. Sewell and me to to live nearer to our children and grandchildren, all of whom now reside in the east."
Dr. Sewell, a native of Mansfield, O., came to Huron in January, 1919, at the suggestion of Dr. Buell H. Sprague, founder of the Huron Clinic. Dr. Sprague and Dr. Sewell had become acquainted in the army, in which both served during World War I as officers in the medical corps. Dr. Sewell was a captain in this service. Between his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania and his entering the army, Dr. Sewell practiced medicine in Denver, Colo., and in New Mexico.
During the nearly 25 years that Dr. Sewell has lived in Huron he has held many important professional, business and community posts. At the present time he is serving his second term as president of the Huron District Medical Association. He is a director of the National Bank of South Dakota, Huron Branch, medical referee of the Life Benefit Association; chairman of the board of Salvation Army here; and senior warden of Grace Episcopal Church. Last year Dr. Sewell was president of the Huron Chamber of Commerce, and he has served as president of the Huron Rotary Club, two terms as commander of William Reaves Post of the American Legion, and one as vice-commander of the South Dakota Department of the Legion. He has also headed the local 40 Et 8 organizion.
Dr. Sewell is a member of the American College of Physicians and of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Dr. and Mrs. Sewell brought with them to Huron in 1919 one son and two daughters. Another son, John, was was graduated in February from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and who is now in officers' training at Fort Monmouth, N. J., was born here. The older son, Capt. Harry D. Sewell, jr., is in the southwest Pacific. His wife and daughter live in Douglaston, Long Island. Eunice, the older daughter, is married to Wesley Warnock and lives with her husband and their five year old daughter in Bridgeport, Conn. Younger daughter, Mary, is Mrs. Frank Vogel. Her husband, a petty officer in the Navy, is stationed on the east coast, and Mrs. Vogel lives in Washington with their eighteen-months old daughter.
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