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James Daniel Hardy James Daniel Hardy May 14, 1918 – February 19, 2003

May 14, 1918 – February 19, 2003 (Continued from other side)

James Hardy and his twin brother, Julian, were born and reared In 1963 Dr Hardy and co-workers did the first human lung in Newala, , 3 miles east of Montevallo. He attended the transplant. In 1964 he and coworkers excised a living human heart consolidated grammar school nearby which had 3 rooms for the 6 for the first time and performed the first heart transplant in a grades, then attended high school in Montevallo. James received his human utilizing a chimpanzee heart. The procedure emphasized the BA from the in 1938, and his MD in 1942 from need for generally accepted criteria for brain death so donor the University of Pennsylvania, and continued there for his surgical organs could be secured. residency and junior faculty experience. In 1951, he became Director Dr. Hardy trained over 200 surgeons. He authored, co-authored, or of Surgical Research at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. edited 23 books, including 2 that became standard surgical texts, and 2 Three years later he became the first chairman of the Department autobiographies; published over 500 articles in medical journals; and of Surgery at the new University of Medical School in served on numerous editorial boards and as editor-in-chief of the Jackson, serving in that capacity until his retirement in 1987. World Journal of Surgery. As a surgeon, researcher, teacher, and author Dr. Hardy made signal Among numerous other honors James Hardy served as president of contributions to medicine over his long career. the Southern Surgical Association, the American Surgical Association,

(Continued on other side) the American College of Surgeons, the International Surgical Society, ALABAMA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 2012 and the Society of University Surgeons.

ALABAMA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 2012

Alabama Historical Association Shelby County Historical Society, Inc. Henry L. Laws, II, MD Lhoist North America, Montevallo Plant

EXTEND TO YOU A SPECIAL INVITATION TO ATTEND THE HISTORIC MARKER DEDICATION FOR DR. JAMES DANIEL HARDY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 AT 2:00pm

The marker is erected on the front lawn of the Lhoist North America, Montevallo Plant located at 7444 State Highway 25 South, Calera, Shelby County, Alabama.

Parking will be available in the Lhoist Lime Plant parking lot.

Newala, Shelby County, Alabama is located between Calera and Montevallo. Dr. Hardy grew up in Newala, Alabama. His father, Fred H. Hardy, owned a lime plant in Newala. The home of his grandfather, James D. Hardy, was used as the Calera schoolhouse until it burned in December 1905.

Dr. Hardy married Louise Scott Sams of Decatur, Georgia in 1949; they met when he was working at Stark General Hospital in Charleston. She died from Alzheimer's disease in 2000. They had four daughters - (1) Dr. Louise Roeska-Hardy, professor of philosophy in Heidelberg and Frankfurt, Germany (2) Dr. Julia Ann Hardy, psychiatrist in Michigan (3) Dr. Bettie Winn Hardy, clinical psychologist and director of the eating disorders program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas (4) Dr. Katherine H. Little, medical director of the Diagnostic Center for Digestive Diseases at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas.

[Many thanks to those that financially contributed to purchase this Historic Marker]