[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 30, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E60]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


     A TRIBUTE IN MEMORY OF DR. BENJAMIN MAJOR, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

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                            HON. BARBARA LEE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 30, 2001

  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, it is with a great sense of loss that I rise to 
pay tribute to Dr. Benjamin Major, a prominent Bay Area physician, who 
passed on January 4, 2001, in Kensington, California.
  Dr. Major was a graduate of Fisk University and graduated from 
Meharry Medical College at the age of 21. After completing an 
internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Homer G. 
Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, he served honorably as a Captain in the 
U.S. Air Force Medical Corp.
  Dr. Major began his private practice in Oakland in 1953 and 
eventually opened The Arlington Medical Group in 1957.
  Dr. Major was active in the community and the field of medicine 
locally, nationally and internationally. During his career, he was a 
consultant Obstetrician to the City of Nairobi and the Family Planning 
Association of Kenya through the World Health Organization, was a 
diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a 
Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
  He later received a Ford Foundation mid-career scholarship in 1969 
and obtained a Masters of Public Health in Maternal Child Health and 
Family Planning from UC Berkeley in 1970.
  Even though he retired from practice in 1987, he continued to serve 
as a consultant and instructor in family planning at several agencies 
and facilities throughout Northern California.
  Additionally, Dr. Major served the community by being a member of 
several organizations. These organizations include the American College 
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the National Medical Association, the 
California Medical Association, the Golden State Medical Association, 
the Sinkler-Miller Medical Association, the St. Luke's Society, the 
National Family Planning Council, the NAACP, and the Sigma Pi Phi 
Fraternity.
  Dr. Major's contributions throughout the world and at home will 
remain his lasting legacy. My thoughts and prayers are with his family, 
friends, patients and colleagues this day.

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