BI()(l RA I’HICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY 301 Accompanying his parents to the United States in 1892, Mr. Larsen attended the grammar schools of Peekskill, N. Y., and Bridgeport, Conn., and the Bridgeport High School. Obtaining his B.S. degree from the Mas­ sachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, in 1908, he came to the Islands as Dlant pathologist at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters‘ Association experi­ ment station in Honolulu. In 1915 he transferred to theagricultural de­ Dartment of that organization and was appointed chief agriculturist the next year. On Jan. 1, 1918, he became manager of the Kilauea Sugar Plantation Co., Kauai, a position he held until Sept. 1, 1930, when he Was appointed assistant vice president of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. In 1922 he was a member of the Republican Central Committee, and in 1924 served as president of the Kauai Chamber of Commerce, In 1929 he was a member of a commission which investigated conditions in the sugar in­ dustries of Formosa, the Philippines and Java for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters‘ Association. Larsen, Dr. Nils Paul: Physician; Medical Director, The Queen’s Hospital. Born June 15, 1890, Stockholm, Sweden, son of Emil and Maria (Free­ man) Larsen; married Sara Elizabeth Lucas, Honolulu, 1921; children, Lila Elizabeth, Jack Lucas Larsen; Fellow American Medical Association, mem­ ber American Association Immunologists, American Association Bac­ teTi010gists, Society for the Study of Asthma and Allied Conditions, The HETVBYSociety, Medical Association of Hawaii, Social Science Club, Rotary, University Clubs; Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu; Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Omega Alpha; positions held, President, Honolulu County Medical Society, 1927; President, Hawaiian Academy of Science 1928; Director in Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club two years; Trustee, Palama Settlement; Author, and Co-Author, “Clinical and Bacteriological Study of 1000 Cases of Lobar‘ Pllellmonia,” “Lobar Pneumonia,” “Bronchial Asthma,” “Bronchial Asthma in Children," “Peptone in Anaphylactic Shock,” “The Sacrial Pigment Mark,” “One Factor in Circulation,” “Observation in the Wassermann and Kahn Reactions," “The Conduct of a Hospital Staff Con­ ference,” ther“Pois0n Spider”; editor of the Queen's Hospital Bulletin and one of the editors of the Proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Surgical Conference. Coming to Hawaii first in 1919 to visit his brother, L. David Larsen, Sugar plantation manager, after extended war service overseas, Dr. Nils P. Larsen returned to the Territory in 1922 to accept appointment as path­ ologist at the Queen’s Hospital, subsequently assuming the additional duties of medical director. Since 1924, The Queen’s, leading hospital in Hawaii, has been designated a. “Class A" institution by the American Medical Asso­ Ciation which has approved it for the training of internes. It is also rated as a certified and approved hospital by the American College of Surgeons. With aid from various local grants a research department has been developed at the Queen's Hospital and various studies on the poison fish and poison Snider have been conducted. A tl1ree—yearpollen survey of Honolulu is now under way and a series of studies on sunlight have just been completed in the department. At present in co-operation with Palama and aided by the University of Hawaii a most important study is being conducted on dental decay. Five papers have already been completed and these studies throw new light on the underlying cause of dental decay­ Dr. Larsen also conducts a private consultation practice. As the chair­ man for Hawaii, he took a leading part i11preparing for the Pan-Pacific Surgical Conference in Honolulu in 1929 as well as throughout the sessions. D1‘.Larsen likewise has been prominent in endeavors to raise the general l1ealth-standard of the community, particularly as regards a more sanitary milk Sllllplyand efforts to decrease the infant mortality rate and in attempts to create interest in the development of a preventoriung. He has also lec­ tured for a number of years in various of the secondary schools on Social Hygiene. Serving a special research fellowship at the New York Hospital, he later 302 .\IE.'\' ()I<‘ Il.v\\\'.»\II V W *5 *" JOHN AFONG LEE DR. VVILLIAM S. LING 1)R_ ML\' HIN L1 W. HAROLD LOPER l%1()(}l{Al’HlCAL REFERENCE LIBRARY 303 Was appointed assistant pathologist. Dr. Larsen resigned to enter the army when America declared war, being commissioned first lieutenant, Medical COTDS,106th U. S. Infantry, April, 1917; Captain, M. C., 1917; Major, 1918. Going overseas with his regiment in May, 1918,Dr. Larsen saw active service {I1Belgium, where he was appointed regimental surgeon, and served as such 1n_the battles of Poperiiighe, Vierstroddt Ridge, Hindenbusg Line, Le Selle _River,and St. Martin River. Citations for gallantry in action and mention In War Department special dispatches for exceptional efficiency and courage brought him the special silver star citation of the United States as well as the conspicuous service medal of New York. Dr. Larseii's last service before receiving his honorable discharge was as acting ship surgeon of the U.S.S. Leviathan, America's largest transport, which carried more than 11,000 men on that trip to the United States in the midst of the influenza epidemic. After his vacation trip to Hawaii in 1919Dr. Larsen returned to Cornell University in 1920 to become instructor in the Medical College and an ad­ junct assisting visiting physician at Bellevue Hospital, conducting research Work also in the subjects of pneumonia. and asthma, the results being pub­ lislied in the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Journal of Immunology. Coming from his native Stockholm to the United States at an early age, Dr. Larsen was educated in the Bridgeport, Conn., public schools, Massacu­ setts Agricultural College (B.Sc.) and Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1916) later taking post-graduate work at Columbia University in biological chemistry. At the Massachusetts institution Dr. Larsen was secretary of his class, played 'varsity football three years, was a member of the student senate, and president of the Christian Association. While in Massachusetts and later in New York he was interested in boys’ work and directed the activities of two clubs in Amherst for three years and in New York City those of two Boy Scout troops which he had organized. He had also served as Playground Director in New Bedford. Lau, Luck Yee: Dental Technician. Born March 15, 1892, Mokuleia, Waialua, Island of Oahu, son of Lau Hon and Siu Shee; married Juliette Kaiuaola, Honolulu, July 12, 1923; chil­ dren, Francis You King, Majella Lau and Virgil Mun Seong Lau; member, Hawaii Chinese Civic Association, Lung Doo Society­ Abandoning the study of civil engineering in 1916, Luck Yee Lau, one of the most prominent Chinese athletes in Hawaii, studied at the Bodee School of Mechanical Dentistry in Philadelphia, qualified as a dental tech­ nician and has since owned and operated a dental laboratory in Honolulu. Before taking‘ up the study of mechanical dentistry, Mr. Lau was cin­ Dloyed by the Chiiiese-American Bank, Ltd., Frank Coombs Auto Shop, and the Royal Hawaiian Sales Co., Ltd. During the World War he served in the army from July, 1917, to February, 1919, at Fort Shafter. He toured the mainland United States as a member of the All-Chinese baseball team in 1912-1913and made a tour ot the Orient in 1915, represent­ ing china in the Far Eastern Olympiad. He was a member of the All-Chinese baseball team of Honolulu from 1910 to 1927. Mr. Lau was educated at the Waialua School, Mills Institute, Central Grammar, -McKinley High school and stndied civil engineering at the College of Hawaii for three years. Lee: John Afong: liducator and Publlshel‘. Born Nov. 27, 1901, Makapala, Koliala, Hawaii; son of Lee Wan and oiig Oiig; married Siu Hoon Chang, Hilo» Mam“ 2?; 192?­ G1-adnated from the Makapala grammar school, Hilo High school, 1920, and Indiana University, 1924,Mr, Lee since the latter year has been engaged in business in Hilo and also as an instructor at the Hilo High school. ln addition to his educational work he is proprietor of the Aloha Gift Shop. in Hilo, manager of the Lee Publishing Co., publisher of the Hawaii Filipino Herald and editor and I-nanagel‘of the Hawaii Free Press. Mr. Lee is the 304 MEN OF HA\\'AII A. LEWIS, JR. BI()(‘.l{Al’HICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY 305 first American of Oriental parentage to teach in a high school of Hawaii and he started the first regularly published Filipino newspaper 011the Island of Hawaii. Lennox, John: Store Manager, Ewa Plantation C0. Born Sept. 23, 1877, Stirlingshire, Scotland, son of Adam and Stewart (Robertson) Lennox; married Anne Mae Cook, Honolulu, May 5, 1903; chil­ dren, Colin Gordon and Duncan Stewart Lennox; member Chamber of Com­ merce, Commercial Club, Ad Club, Outrigger Canoe Club. Educated at St. Niiiian’s public school, Stirlingshire, Scotland, Mr. Len­ nox worked with Charles Jenner & Co., silk merchants of Edinburgh, Scot­ land, from 1896 to 1899. Coming to Hawaii in 1899, he has been identified with the business life of the Islands for the past thirty years in various responsible positions. He was in the drygoods department of Theo. H. Davies & Co., 1899-1901; store manager, Hawaiian Mercantile Co., Kohala, Hawaii, 1901-02; store manager, McBryde Sugar Co., Eleele, Kauai, 1902-09; manager, L. Turner Co. (later Hilo Emporium), at Hilo, Hawaii, 1909-10; president and manager, N. S. Sachs Drygoods Co., Honolulu, 1910-18; cashier Ameri­ can-Hawaiiaii Motors Co., Ltd., 1918-19,and since the latter year has been store manager and head of the merchandise department of Ewa Plantation Co., Ewa, Oahu. He was a member of the Merchants’ Company Q.R.V.B.