Max L. M. Boone |
| Posted 2009-02-07 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona Tursday, November 19, 1996 Dr. Max L.M. Boone dies; UA Cancer Center founder Doctor and physicist Max L.M. Boone, one of the founders of the University of Arizona Cancer Center, died Sunday at his home in Prescott, Arizona. He was 65. 'The cancer center was originally his brainchild,' said his daughter, Linda Hunt of Prescott. In 1972, Boone persuaded local hospitals and the Legislature to support a $2.3 million cancer center for Southern Arizona, said Paul Capp, who helped start the UA College of Medicine and is a former head of the radiology department. Capp recruited Boone from the University of Wisconsin, where he was head of the radiation and oncology department, in 1971. 'He was one of the most popular and impressive radiation oncologists at the time,' Capp said yesterday. In the early 1970s, Boone and Eugene Gerner, UA professor of radiation/oncology, pioneered hyperthermia - the use of heat to kill cancer cells. Hunt remembers one of the 'thought-provoking' dinner-table conversations in which her father explained the idea of hyperthermia. That concept that earned him the gold medal of the International Clinical Hyperthermia Society in the early 1990s, Capp said. But friends and family remember him best as a gentle and caring man. Capp, a colleague of Boone's for 15 years, said: ''He cared for the residents that he trained as he cared for his children. 'But he always remembered his rural Indiana roots,' Hunt noted. 'There was an attractive humility about him.' 'Someone coming in to fix the air conditioning system at our house would end up on the couch telling my father his life story,' she said. 'He just drew out the good in all people.' 'It was just the way he lived constantly,' said his son David of Tucson. In addition to his daughter Linda, Boone is survived by his wife, Carol Lee of Prescott; sons George of Tucson and Max of Athens, Ala.; another daughter, Emily Boone-Roberts of Prescott; and 11 grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at the Memory Chapel Mortuary, 131 Grove Avenue in Prescott, Arizona at 1 p.m. tomorrow. |
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