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FRANK A. BUELL, M. D.
It
is natural that child psychiatry should be of great interest to Dr. Frank A.
Buell, since he is the father of five children.
He is the senior psychiatrist in practice with Dr. William W. Goral,
with offices located at 1212 East Main Street in Alhambra. He aids the Monrovia and the San Gabriel
Schools’ Guidance Centers and teaches at the College of Medical Evangelists at Loma
Linda, California, where he is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. He is now writing an article on “School
Phobia.”
A
native of Omaha, Nebraska, he was born on March 17, 1914, to Frank A. and
Elmira Jane (Lecklider) Buell. His father, a major in the United States
Army, was killed in action in France during World War I. His mother resides in El Sereno. Dr. Buell has traced his family’s arrival in
New England back to 1690.
As
a boy of six years of age, his family came to California and settled in Long
Beach, where he attended elementary school and high school. He received his A. B. degree from the
University of California at Los Angeles in 1936 and his M. D. degree from the
University of Southern California in 1941.
He interned for a year at the Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital in Los Angeles
and practiced in Los Angeles for one year until soon after the United States
entered World War II. He joined the
United States Public Health Service and as Senior Assistant Surgeon, he was
stationed in numerous posts in the United States during the next four years,
including the Public Health Service Hospital at Fort Worth, Texas, where he
specialized in mental diseases.
Displaying
his continued interest in psychiatry and neurology, Dr. Buell became a resident
physician at the United States Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto, California, in
1946. In 1947 he opened his office at
248 East Main Street in Alhambra, moving to his present location six years
ago. He has been a psychiatrist at the
Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall, as well as serving at the Los Angeles School
Guidance Center.
Diligent
Dr. Buell is a member of the San Gabriel Valley branch of the Los Angeles
County Medical Association, the California Medical Association and the American
Psychiatric Association. He was
certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1949. He attends Throop Memorial Universalist
Church in Pasadena, and is a past member of the Alhambra Chamber of
Commerce. He has also been active with
his sons in Boy Scouting.
Dr.
Buell is married to the former Miss Evelyn Marie Smith of Long Beach,
California. She is a member-at-large of
the Unitarian Women’s Alliance and travels a great deal. A past officer of the Ramona Parent-Teachers
Association, she has also been zealous in her Democratic Headquarters
work. On the Board of Trustees at Throop
Memorial Universalist Church, she also is a Sunday School
teacher.
Their
children, Frank Andrew Buell, Jr., aged 18, is a student at the University of California
at Berkeley; Roger Ward, aged 16, attends San Marino Preparatory School for Boys;
Deborah Anne, aged 10, Thomas Newton, aged 7, and Alison Leigh, aged 6, are
pupils at Ramona Elementary School in Alhambra.
Young
Frank was president of his class at San Marino Prep, a member of the
All-Southern California Junior High School Orchestra, and president of the
Pasadena Liberal Religious Youth, of which his brother, Roger, is now
president. In 1959 Roger won a
citizenship award at Ramona School.
Classical
music is a favorite hobby of Dr. Buell and his collection of several hundred
records is predominantly Mozart. When
time permits, Dr. Buell also plays the clarinet and enjoys photography as a
hobby.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Pages 487-488, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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