APRIL 2014 | Vol. 19 | Issue 4 | Mail Run: 8,383 | Total Print Run: 11,500 www.thecatoctinbanner.com www.epluspromotes.com Your Good News Community Newspaper Serving Northern Frederick County, MD Since 1995 A Tribute to Doctors Pickard and Harper Courtesy Photo by Joseph Kirchner After thirty-eight years of dedicated into town. worked for calling him a “character” was “the medical service to the Catoctin region, Such was his many years nicest thing anyone could call me.” Dr. Steven A. Pickard and Dr. William interest that with both He also reports that he was “famous F. Harper retired last year in June and he formed a Pickard or infamous” for playfully tapping October, respectively. These men share committee and smokers on the arm to scold them a rather fascinating, parallel history, to interview Harper. for their choice to smoke. A lifelong from their early medical training both Harper He calls owner of Welsh Springer Spaniels, he through their many years of medical and Pickard. Harper “a affixed photos of them on the ceiling practice together at the Catoctin They passed real stand- above his exam rooms to put his Medical Group in Thurmont. The with flying up guy,” an patients at ease, and handed out dog illustrious doctors came in together, colors. extremely biscuits to his dog-owner patients. served admirably for almost four Remarkably, competent Pickard and Harper are decades, and retired just a few months the town physician enormously grateful for the wonderful apart. was so who was people they were so privileged to Pickard and Harper performed interested in “not work with. While everyone made their three-year residency together them that interested great contributions to the practice, Dr. William F. Harper enjoys quality time with his in the Franklin Square Family men from the grandchildren. at all in they are especially indebted to Marion Practice Residency (Baltimore) at town actually tooting Bennett, “the wonderful receptionist/ an interesting juncture in medical signed the mortgage papers for the his own horn.” Apparently one day, office manager who really got the history—they were in just the second incoming doctors! (In fact, Pickard a small boy seemingly drowned in a ball rolling,” and also to Betty group of family practice residents. and Harper were just the seventeenth pail, was pronounced dead, and was Rickerd, whose professionalism as a Like all young doctors, they were and eighteenth doctors in Thurmont.) taken to the Catoctin Medical Group. nurse for twenty-five years is greatly first quite concerned with handling Pickard and Harper began Dr. Harper resuscitated him and sent appreciated. Both doctors are enjoying their difficult training, but also with practicing medicine in a modular him by ambulance to the hospital, retirement by spending more time planning for employment when their home on July 21, 1975, on the same where he fully recovered. The intrepid with family, a luxury not enjoyed residency was completed. site now occupied by the Catoctin doctor then finished his afternoon when they worked long hours to In his last year of residency, it Medical Group. They happily worked patients, never saying a word about build The Catoctin Medical Group. happened that Harper decided to in this arrangement for three years, this to anyone. Dr. Krantz would find Doctors Pickard and Harper miss take a scenic drive on a fine Sunday until a more substantial edifice was this out later from the office manager. their patients, just as they are greatly afternoon, simply to relax. He drove constructed. In those early days, Dr. Harper not only “talked the talk” missed by one and all, as expressed (for whatever reason) into the small it was really a family affair: Dr. but also “walked the walk” every day. in a sentiment spoken by Dr. Krantz, town of Thurmont, only to find there, Pickard’s wife, Dee, was the nurse Dr. Krantz greatly enjoyed working “I miss them and wish they were still an answer to his future plans in the and Dr. Harper’s wife, Marian, was with Dr. Pickard and says of him, here.” form of a large banner that read: “We the receptionist. This was the humble “Anyone that met him would call him The Catoctin Medical Group’s Need Doctors!” Liking the pastoral beginning for what would later a character!” He “loved to talk, joke locations are: 100 South Center setting and noting it would be a become a thriving practice in both around, and he laughed a lot.” Dr. Street in Thurmont, Monday-Friday, good place to raise a family, he then Thurmont and Frederick. Pickard was often playful and took 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and Saturday, inquired of the town. This writer had the good occasion the time to really get to know his 9:00 a.m.-Noon, 301-271-4333; Indeed, the mayor of Thurmont to interview Dr. James Krantz, who patients well. When I interviewed the 180 Thomas Johnson Drive, #101, at that time, Jim Black, was very began working at the Catoctin quirky doctor, he told me “laughter Frederick, MD, Monday-Friday, 8:30 interested in bringing qualified doctors Medical Group in 1988, and who is an important part of life” and said a.m.-5:00 p.m., 301-696-8801. Arts & Business Thurmont’s Visitor’s Entertainment Expo Canine Cop Center at the & Grotto Page 28 Page 11 Page 19 Page 16 Looking for a Service, Fun Event, Food, Frozen Yogurt, Crafts, Flowers, Real Estate, Camps? 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