November 11, 1999
Contact: John Scarffe, KU Endowment, (785) 832-7336.
LAWRENCE -- A former University of Kansas Medical Center professor and department chairman has included in his will a $75,000 bequest to create a new professorship in diagnostic radiology at KU, Donald Hagen, M.D., executive vice chancellor, announced today.
Arch W. Templeton, M.D., of Charleston, S.C., gave the gift to the Kansas University Endowment Association to endow the Arch W. Templeton Distinguished Professorship in Diagnostic Radiology. The professorship will help bring outstanding faculty members to the medical center to continue and further strengthen its strong program in radiology.
"We are very grateful for Dr. Templeton's generous gift, which will help the Medical Center achieve its goal of adding several endowed professorships," Hagen said. "Our professors today often are challenged to balance academia, research and clinical practice, and our faculty members need additional, private financial support to allow them to spend time focusing on the academic mission."
Born in Madison, Wis., Templeton received his bachelor's degree in 1954 and medical degree in 1957 from the University of Nebraska. He completed his internship at Lima Memorial Hospital in Lima, Ohio, in 1958 and his residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in 1961.
Templeton then became chief of the Department of Radiology at the U.S. Naval Dispensary in Norfolk, Va., and taught radiology at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Missouri, Columbia, before moving on to the KU Medical Center. For the next 25 years, Templeton chaired KU's Department of Diagnostic Radiology, where he also was a professor. He currently teaches radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
A well-known expert in his field, Templeton has authored nearly 175 papers, books and book chapters. He has won numerous professional awards and has been a visiting professor at the Mayo Clinic and Medical School and the University of California at Los Angeles. He also has served on review panels for the Food and Drug Administration and is a consultant to the Eastman Kodak Company in New York and the Siemens Corporation in West Germany.
He is active in several professional organizations, including the American College of Radiology, the Radiological Society of North America and the American Board of Radiology and is a past president of the Association of University Radiologists.
Templeton is married to Linda Marshall Templeton, who received her bachelor's degree in nursing from KU in 1974. She is a former radiology nurse manager at the KU Medical Center.
The Templetons are members of the Elizabeth M. Watkins Society at KU, which honors donors of planned gifts.
KU Endowment is an independent, nonprofit organization serving as the official fund-raising and fund-management foundation for the University of Kansas. Founded in 1891, the KU Endowment Association is the oldest foundation of its kind at a public university in the United States and one of the largest.
Story by Leah Conger