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DR. STUART H. MAUDE, D.V.M.
The
only veterinarian practicing in Rosemead, Dr. Stuart H. Maude, D.V.M., has been
serving the community in that capacity since 1953, with five years’ prior experience
as Los Angeles County Senior Veterinarian.
Dr. Maude limits his practice to small animals and offers the most
modern facilities possible. He is now in
partnership with his brother, Dr. Arthur E. Maude. They are both graduates of the same school,
Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto, Dr. Stuart Maude having done
his graduate work at the University of Southern California, School of Medicine.
A
native of Seagrave, Ontario, Canada, Dr. Maude was
born on June 18, 1916. He is the son of
Major and Ethel (Mills) Maude, both born in England. Dr. Maude received his elementary and high
school education at Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and graduated from the University
of Toronto in 1941, receiving a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree and a Veterinary
Science degree.
In
1941 Dr. Maude came to California, to Corona, and in 1942 lived in Santa Ana
until his induction into the United States Army in December of that year. Sent overseas in January, 1943, Dr. Maude was
commissioned a first lieutenant the following year, and returned to the United
States in June, 1945. He was discharged
at the end of 1945. He is now a
lieutenant-colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve. While in the army, Dr. Maude met Lieutenant
Vera E. Stafford of the Women’s Army Nurse Corps, a native of Bogalusa,
Louisiana; they were married on March 16, 1946, at the Mission Inn in
Riverside. After their marriage the
Maude’s became San Gabriel Valley residents.
Dr.
Maude is very active in civic as well as professional affairs. He was president of the Rosemead Chamber of
Commerce in 1960, and is serving as president of the Coordinating Council. A Republican, Dr. Maude was on the Los
Angeles County Central Committee in 1959.
He is on the Bishop’s Committee of Immanuel Episcopalian Church of El
Monte. A past president of the Alhambra
20-30, in 1947, Dr. Maude is also a member and past president, in 1956, of the
Rosemead Kiwanis; he is a Mason, a member of Lodge Number 702 in Rosemead, and
was president of the San Gabriel Valley Hi-Twelve Club in 1958. He is also a past commander of the Orange
County Canadian Legion, and is presently a member of the Air Force
Association. Dr. Maude is also a counselor
for the Boy Scouts. The professional
associations of which Dr. Maude is a member include the Southern California,
California, and American Veterinary Associations, of which he is now secretary
of the San Gabriel chapter; he is a member of the Conference of Public Health
Veterinarians.
Dr.
and Mrs. Maude are the parents of three children: Susan Diane, a student at Rosemead High
School; Patricia Kathleen and Stuart H. Maude, Jr., both students at Encinitas
School in Rosemead, where Mrs. Maude is active in the Parent-Teachers’
Association.
Dr.
Maude is a great fancier of horses, and keeps saddle horses as his hobby.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Page 771, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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