4. FTM RWR
born 3:44pm Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Pasco, Franklin, WA. Mary was 24, Al 35.
Bill Tanner phone call:
2 yr Roger lived with Bill and Mother Carol, crib in bedroom.
7 yr Joyce
May 27, 2003 rochat@rocketmail.com
In 1950- I can't recall how I got to or from CA, but I do recall that one way was with Paul Wilson. I stayed with Grandpa Groth- and same place that Dorothy and Karen lived.
1957 RWR went with bookmobile from Kennewick to Plymouth.
Sep 1962 Roger started University of Washington Medical School.
Dec 1962 Al, Mary, Marilyn, Marilee, Dorothy, and John attended the Groth Christmas party and conference. Ginny Woll flew in. Roger joined us and Roger asked Ginny to marry him at Aunt Dorothy’s. Roger rode with us north visiting Uncle Willard and Uncle Allen Hearne. [see RWR google site]
May 18, 1963 Rich & Marilee marry
IN 1963 I stayed with Uncle George and Aunt Eileen-After my first year of medical school, I hitchhiked from Seattle (") or Walla Walla (?) to Philadelphia; Ginny canceled the engagement; I hitchhiked West and my second ride was straight through to San Francisco- I can't recall how I got from there to the San Marcos area. And I can't recall how I got back to Seattle for my second year of medical school.
I also recall driving with Grandpa Groth's car- that he gave me to take to UR--with him lying down in the back--about 1959. But how far did I drive him? Was it from CA to Wash? Or was it only within Wash?
Maybe Mom or Eileen can help identify times that GWG III visited. I definitely recall he visited on the farm.. and once in Kennewick (altho I know he also visited times long after I had left.) l... and I thought he visited us in Wallace.. but I can't be sure.
Love Roger.
Nov 24-26, 1972 RWR at Springfield JHS Kittle Rd, Holland, OH Bible Conf. He recorded how many long hair, beard, sideburns, or facial hair. (see conf. card)
May 2005 ADR family notes while in WW living room
Medical Lake:
Castle: [should go with Hayford? 2020 dew] wood swing 2x4; down the hill- demolished house.
When Mary returned they moved to Josephine’s House, a small cottage near the school. While living here Dorothy was born at the Salvation Army Hospital, Oct. 1944. [Jan 12, 2004 MB: Marilyn and Roger stayed with McDoles; Marilee with Colards] Al was exempt from going to war because he had three children but he did do war-work at Geiger Army Air Base, first as a carpenter, then in engine repair. He changed exhaust and intake valves. He was thrilled with $1.15/hr., twice what he was making as a teacher. WWII castle became a 13-room apt for army boys. Rochats had to move. Ed Moss was making $1/day. ADR gave up pittance job and went to Moss. Wm Rochat was janitor making money. Galena? Geiger. ADR welded hot to cold fittings. airplane fittings.
Hayford:
4 28 2017 Hayford: Marilee remembers: Roger and I ran home together from school when I was in 1st grade. If the older boys caught us they would bang our heads together, not beat us up. And I only remember that happening once. I was equally scared of the dog that barked at us as we turned from the hiway down our lane.
MER 1990: Often Roger came home beaten by big boys. Al & Mary taught their children not to fight. Roger defended his two sisters with his lunch pail
rwr: remembers Dad in anger slamming plates; fear & religion. Parents would say “do it because I said. Both parents used a belt to spank. Dad would read scripture and then spank. RWR got finger caught in hay chopper. Parents working desperately to provide for the family. ADR didn’t want classical music & .
Rural background- was wide.
Parents absolutely committed to what is right and always searching.
Wallace:
MJ: was 2nd gr when moved to Wallace; MB 5-10th Brislawn in 5th
RWR: in 4th grade, Pruitt’s class. fishing, sleeping on room of Madams
Brothels tipped Roger with silver dollars. He never went upstairs.
Remember stopping out of Las Vegas the Sodom and Gomorrah of 1954 to camp in the sand along the side of the road. Folks slept on roof of car. Rain, washed us out of hell hole. (MJ)
John: Marilyn took 2 yr old John on a special trip to town and bought him beautiful colored crayons or chalk at Ritz drug store. When they returned home, Al & Mary told him he must put them away. John was exhausted but became very angry, threw the crayons down and broke them.
John remembers sledding with Marilyn. Robin Stanley shared the sled with John and Marilyn. They were going down switchbacks. A garage was at the bottom. Marilyn pushed John off before she and Robin went off the hill and tumbled down the road. John was heartbroken he was pushed off.
Marilyn took John to an Elvis Presley movie. She had a coquettish look. (JAR).
Wallace mines are gone. Lead in asbestos (Libby, MT) The Air they Breathe. Like pollution problems from Hanford. Is that why Roger got cancer of thyroid?
Mr/Mrs George George’s Tea House – Mary washed dishes.
Kennewick:
First yr in Kenn Dot took John to Kindergarten. Fruitland Grade school.
After babysitting all night Marilyn came home, blew her nose and threw the $5 in the fireplace with the Kleenex. (MER)
Marilyn went to prom with tall dark and handsome George.
JAR: Marilyn rose suddenly from the June 1957 Sunday dinner table remembering she needed to deliver a message to the Simmelinks in the Horseheaven Hills. 10th St. went up and down as you switched hills. It was easy to speed when steep. She had a head-on collision and spun into a telephone pole. She tried to avoid a car with children and hit the telephone pole. Her head was under the dashboard and needed stitches. John remembers thinking of going with her but thought he might die if he did. Mary called the police to find out what had happened to Marilyn. She was at Kennewick General Hospital. Grandpa Groth bought her another car. That night Roger flew to NY on Bausch & Lomb scholarship (Did you fly Jun 1957, Rog? Did you get the scholarship when you were a junior?)
After graduation in 1958 Roger worked at Lederle.
In 1959 Roger worked for CDC.
1960 Clarkfork. MB drove east to meet us. She had a 1953 Pontiac, heavy, speakers good, box.
1959-1960 Stu and Roger came from NY to Kennewick. Three cars met at crossroads south of Glacier National Park. Stu and Roger chased brown bears the tree.
1965 Roger was in med. school when Roberta was born. Marilyn attended summer school before marriage in Ellensburg (RWR).
Nov 15, 2005 Stu Milligan [lilgamin@frontiernet.net]
Roger & I, back in 1960 (45-plus years ago!!) when I went out to Kennewick with him, climbed Rainier with a group he knew to the Muir Hut and I got hooked on mountaineering ever since. We didn't make the summit that year because Roger had a commitment elsewhere, but I was able to take the White River route to the summit with my sons many years later - unguided.
Dec 22, 2002
let me share that I invited Dr. Paul Brand to marry Susan and me. He had a conflict in schedule and couldn't. At that time he was at the Carville Leprosy Sanitarium in Louisiana
1980 Roger CDC traveled in Lebanon and Indonesia; SW Rochat reunion
-1989 in India
1990 Roger work with Georgia Health Dept. Taiwan. Publ. "Infant Health in Georgia: Progress during the 1980's.
Dec 27, 1999 email from Roger
thanks, Dorothy for good note. You stay wonderful busy! John told me your plumbing is working. Super.
And your house is moving forward. Have tried unsuccessfully to call you. Just to wish you happy holidays & good new year...and to thank you for coming to Atlanta and sharing some memories of our childhood--those memories are in my mind often but I have no one I wish to share them with! I was quite overwhelmed by all the kind words and generous gifts.
Fall 2002 Momentum, the Emory U. magazine. p. 28
Three RSPH faculty members were named Professors of the Year, awards given by students to outstanding faculty who demonstrate leadership, a genuine concern for students, and a sense of academic excellence. Roger Rochat, epidemiology and international health, spent 31 years at the CDC before coming to Emory to teach the tricks and techniques of applying analytical skills to solving reproductive health problems.
Nov 2, 2002
Thought you'd enjoy Art's memories of cars--made me think of my first car--a 1940 Plymouth that drank as much oil as gas--I paid $50 for it and sold it for $85 a month later. Later got a '50 or '51 Ford that I loved, but totaled just before flight to Rochester. I know you'll remember that!!
Michael and Sherrill are with us at lake house. The upper driveway culvert got blocked and the week's rains washed gravel into our newly patched driveway, so I spent this afternoon shoveling and wheelbarrowing it into place. Sore back. Sherrill, Susan and I had a good Scrabble game after dinner.
Last night we went to church to hear a Christian actor recite/act out the entire Book of John--took about 2 1/2 hours. Very impressive. Then we went to neighbor Sheth's house to eat some Indian sweets for their Indian Diwali festival (the Hindu New Year).
Have to move boathouse in AM. Water rising--nice to see..
Hope you're having a good weekend. Much love--and also to those in Assembly in Walla Walla! Roger
May 18, 2002 (handwritten on Feb 1, 2003 paper)
It has been quite a lifetime, hasn't it Roger? One of the blessings of my lifetime has been knowing and working with you. Thanks for your gentle wisdom, your leadership and your contribution to the health and happiness of women and families in Georgia and throughout the world.
Peace and special love,
Bob Hatcher
Feb 1, 2003
World Population Growth- The History of Contraception in SE Georgia by Bob Hatcher May 2002
What doesn't show well is the population growth curve--AD 1 250 million, 1800 1 billion, 1930 2 billion, 1960 3 billion, 1975 4 billion, 1987 5 billion, 1999 6 billion.
Isn't it amazing to know that the world's population has more than doubled in our lifetime!! And some think there's nothing new under the sun!
Bob and I have been teaching a course together for the past 3 years--on Technology of Fertility Control. Now we're planning next fall's course. We're planning 2 three hour sessions on four major religions and their relationship to fertility control issues--Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam. Students are keenly interested in learning this. It's a very popular course. For the religion sessions. we're planning to use the book Ten Sacred Choices--written by a Jesuit.
Cheers. Roger
PS Are babies gifts from God or byproducts of sexual intercourse in response to passions rather than plans for procreation? Or both? Is that how God delivers gifts?? How charming!
International Health Department March 2003 rough draft
Career Overview or Research Interests: Please give a 100-150 word synopsis of your research interests, career path, or a current research project or grant you are working on. Can be in paragraph or list form, first-person is preferred.
During my third year of medical school in Seattle in 1965, I received an LSU tropical medicine fellowship to study at the Children's Hospital in San Jose, Costa Rica. En route to San Jose, I hitchhiked to New Orleans via Baltimore and Atlanta, stopping at medical centers to interview for internships. While in Atlanta, I was advised to visit CDC-and met Lyle Conrad, Alex Langmuir and others for the first time. After two years residency with Tulane at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, I joined CDC's EIS program and was sent to Oregon as their first EIS officer. That fall I was sent for two months to East Pakistan with Dr. Barth Reller to conduct the first field trial of oral therapy for cholera. Exposure to intense problems associated with rapid population growth, poverty, and crowding led me to change my career. I transferred to CDC's Family Planning Evaluation Activity and to the Georgia Health Department. One of my first tasks in Georgia was to determine whether the new state law legalizing abortion would reduce maternal mortality. Because of continuing discriminatory access to services, it would not. A lawyer cited this social inequity in Doe v. Bolton the Supreme Court case from Georgia that was decided concurrently with Roe v. Wade. Two years later, CDC supported me in studying demography at Princeton for a year. I returned to CDC, spent a year in the CDC Director's Office of Program Planning and Evaluation, then returned to the Family Planning Evaluation Division. With CDC's major reorganization in 1980-81 I became the first Director of the Division of Reproductive Health. In 1985, CDC assigned me to Emory to develop the International Health Track, and in 1987 to USAID, New Delhi for 2 years-in charge of Population, Health, and Nutrition. When I returned from India, I chose to spend 6 years developing Maternal and Child Health epidemiology in the Georgia Health Department. After 30 years with CDC working in 30+ countries and with many state health departments, I retired from CDC in 1999-went with my brother briefly to Antarctica-and then joined RSPH, the first two years in Epidemiology and now in International Health. My research interests have been serendipitously driven, often by the interest of client health departments or the potential for funding support, and diverse in subject matter and methodology. But I have had a special interest in the prevention of maternal deaths and the reduction in unintended pregnancy worldwide. I prepared the first global and regional estimates of maternal deaths for WHO in 1981. And I would nominate the elimination of maternal mortality from abortion as a priority for global attention. If women around the world had the same access to safe first trimester abortions as women in the United States, then instead of having 70,000 maternal deaths from abortion in the world each year, we would have 70 or fewer.
Representative Publications: List 2-3 of your publications or other documents you've authored that are accessible on the web-and their web addresses-so students can access them. (Most students will receive the handbook before school starts, and might want to read up on faculty research before they arrive.)
01-024-007 Global Evaluation of USAID's Postabortion Care Program Laurel Cobb, Pam Putney, Roger Rochat, Julie Solo, Nicole Buono, John Dunlop, Mary Vandenbroucke Kenya, Nepal, Bolivia, Ghana, Washington, DC October 2001
Santelli J, Rochat RW, Hatfield-Timajchy K, Gilbert BC, Curtis K, Cabral R, Hirsch J, Schieve L, and other members of the Unintended Pregnancy Working Group: Reconceiving unintended pregnancy. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, March/April 2003, Volume 34 (2).
Rahman H, Akhter H, Chowdhury, Yusuf H, Rochat RW, Causes of obstetric deaths in Bangladesh, 1996-1997, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (June) 2002: 77/2 pp. 161-169
Warner DL, Rochat RW, Fichtner RR, Stoll BJ, Nathan L, Toomey KE: Missed Opportunities for Congenital Syphilis Prevention in an Urban Southeastern Hospital, Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2001 (Feb); 28(2): 92-98
What advice do you have for first-year students? Develop a passionate commitment to public health, pursue some field of interest with vigor, duck occasionally the political and bureaucratic harassments, but mostly, damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. A life without some risk is hardly worth living.
How do you prefer students contact you? (Only during posted office hours, set appt via email…)
Anyway they can reach me: e mail, telephone, drop in.
Quote: Please provide a short statement we can quote. This can be anything: your expectations of students; of the many experiences you've had, what is your proudest accomplishment; impression of the department; the favorite part of your job; how you first got interested in IH/your topic area; a vivid memory you have of teaching, working, being a student-whatever seems appropriate.
I expect students to work hard, seek help when needed, make steady progress, and when they finish, they should be proud of themselves and of this school. And when they leave this place, I expect them to go out and make a difference for others. I hope some will stay in touch after they leave! Who is (are) your TA/RA(s)? (I will contact her/him for a quote.) Jenny Higgins, Laurie Mignone, Jody Keyserling
The following information will be compiled in list form. It will not be part of your profile.
What professional organizations do you belong to? (These organizations will be listed in the professional development section. It is only to help students visualize where they are headed and the variety of professional organizations out there.) APHA, ACOG, PAA
How many miles did you fly/travel for work-related projects in 2002? (Or list locations and I'll estimate the mileage. This info is just for a "fun fact".) 25,000
What languages do you speak? (Again, just for fun to see the variety and total number.)
I have spoken German, Spanish and a little Hindi. Today I speak only English.
Nov 30, 2005
Thanks to David's initiative, I experienced my first skydive last Saturday--in tandem, of course! Last picture is of David and his friend Lisa Miller. We were at a small airstrip in Monroe, Georgia.
Mom, sorry you didn't hang around long enough to see it. Actually, it may be better you didn't. If Susan had been with us, she'd have dragged us away from the airport long before the clouds lifted and the pilot started flying.
People ask if I was afraid. Nope, my tandem partner was skilled and didn't want to die--and if I'd died it would have been bad for his business. Overall it was a pleasant experience, but I know I would enjoy it much more if I'd jumped a 100 times already!
Jan 21, 2006
Dorothy, in response to your request, I have watched the video and am listing the persons in the sequence in which they show up in the video--if you have any questions about them, please ask--hope this helps. Marilee: If you can tell me how to insert names in the video, I'd be glad to do it--in small font. Or is it impossible to make such changes?
It was a fun time, but I didn't like being the sole center of attention--I was glad for a little roasting. I also missed the quiet but more intimate celebrations we had in youth with family. I wish Marilyn, John, and Dorothy had been here--not to celebrate me, but simply to have some peaceful time together outside the party banter. I'd like to have told all the guests that John hung the front door they walked through. I enjoy the presence of family and friends, but I also miss those who for many good reasons could not be here. Each of you mean a lot to me. And Dorothy, you're right, none of my children roasted me. I think they were overwhelmed by the crowd--and Melanie was busy working in the kitchen--but I think each could have said some choice words!
Mom, glad to hear you're getting better. Can't wait to hear you're swimming again!
Marilee, thanks again to you and Rich, for being able to and choosing to stop in and help Mom. You're wonderful!
Dorothy, it'll be interesting to see who makes it to Micah and Angie's wedding. Strong desire of our family to be there--let's see how it develops.
November 23, 2005 Roger Rochat birthday party, 1010 Liawen Court NE;
PERsons in Marilee’s video:
Marilee interviewing Mom re: Roger’s life.
Kristin King…1st yr MPH student, previously spent one year teaching English in China. Wants to go back to China or to Tibet for this summer field experience.
Bianca Perri, my Teaching Assistant in Reproductive Health Management class, Fall 2005
Phyllis Frost, International Sunday School (ISS) class, NAPC, widow, age ca. 81
Rob Stephenson (RSPH faculty; demographer) & Dabo Brantley (wife of John Carter; CDC staff, GIS expert, former med tech before getting MPH in Epidemiology, one of my first employees in Georgia, 1990)
John Carter, Nouhad Atrash, Gladys Eldridge (NAPC, ISS) organized Suzette’s wedding)
Hani Atrash, speaker, (Edna Friel on right)
Glad and Kris
Jack Friel (in background)
Susan
Emmett and Roslyn Herndon, next door neighbors since we arrived.
Jane Sencer
Dave Sencer, Director CDC, ca. 1967-1977, then Commissioner of Health, NYC, then worked for Management Sciences for Health, now retired & lives a few blocks from us. He was “my” best director of CDC. He managed by walking the floors and talking with employees at all levels. After my year at Princeton (72-73), he invited me to spend a year working in the CDC Office of Program Planning and Management, where I was occasionally “Acting Director of CDC” and also reviewed medical claims of survivors of Tuskegee Syphilis Study. He was dismissed from his job in 1977 over Swine Flu issues.
Dining room table with food showing Jack & Edna Friel, Frank Eldridge (NAPC, ISS, retired federal judge, now in seminary), John Carter
Dave Sencer, speaker, re: early days family planning at CDC, “Roger never controversial” (tongue in cheek)
Rich M talking with Dave Sencer about early CDC history. Rich doesn’t know that he’s talking with a former CDC director—who led CDC for a longer period than anyone else, before or since!
Sheila Dixon NAPC, ISS
Max and Sarah Diamond (Sarah was head of Administrative Services for Division of Reproductive Health, then Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, then other leadership roles. She played an important and successful role in suing CDC on behalf of administrative staff who were being downgraded in position and salary. She was a strong supporter and good friend when I exited DRH directorship position for political reasons in 1985.)
Susan (reading Sherrill’s poem)
Jennifer Flannery, MPH student, whom I assisted to resolve problems in her class on Health and Social Justice
Shankar and Rich M on porch
Edna and Jack Friel on porch (note Edna breathing oxygen through nose tubes due to severe emphysema due to former smoking)
Stan Foster, speaker, Sarah Diamond, Dave Sencer; Stan was neighbor in Victoria Estates for most of our sojourn here. He was Director of Smallpox Eradication in Bangladesh for 6 years; he had extended stay in Nigeria; he has worked in over 50 countries. Stan values the contributions I made to lifting the veil on abortion mortality. Stan's wife, Dottie, daughter of missionaries to Indian community in Guatemala--she's devoted her life to assisting people from other countries adapt and be treated respectfully in USA.
Roger, speaking
Gene and Rose Gangarosa arrive
Gene Gangarosa talking with Ramadan Assi
Stan Foster & Rich M
Charlee Lambert, neighbor, divorcee, age > 80, advocate for the elderly, playright, Japanese son-in-law
Marie Githeye NAPC, ISS, Kenyan
Ramadan Assi, speaking, note reference to Auntie Susan
Ann Macaulay (widow of Sid Macaulay) greeting Roger
Dave Sencer speaking
Florina Serbanescu hugs Suzette (Florina is Romanian obstetrician, works for CDC on international surveys, spent 1+ year working with Roger in Georgia Health Dept. on statewide survey of 3300 women; Suzette spent several weeks with her in Romania one summer implementing national survey.)
Gene Gangarosa (was water safe at Taj Mahal?)
Shankar, speaking, (NAPC, ISS; Georgia Tech professor aeronautical engineering, neighbor, common interest in computers)
Richard M, speaking, Roger the Lodger
Charlee Lambert, speaking
Susan—“it’s party time”
John Carter interview—work together in Georgia Health Dept, now teach together at RSPH
Florina Serbanescu interview
Madhu’s sisters on sofa
Tim Johnson, Ph D Demographer, recently retired from CDC; wife works at Carter Center and obtained signed Jimmy Carter book for Mom (Andre & Florina in back)—Tim—Amish background, grew up in Paraguay—interesting story
Kathy Hageman, RSPH, BSHE, RN, PhD candidate, world wide international traveler/worker—and staunch Kerry supporter!
Andrei-Ion-Fabiou, neurologist, husband of Florina Serbanescu
Kathy Hageman, Suzanne Mason & Roger together
Andrei-Ion-Fabiou
Kathryn Kooistra, whom I recruited after she worked 2 yrs at AGI; she did summer field work in Albania on underreporting of abortion in national statistics
KK’s boyfriend
Kathy Hageman and Suzanne Mason
Ryoko Michinobu, Japanese, Ph D (Anthropology), Roger’s advisee in MPH program; she has spent 5 years working in N Thailand on HIV issues.
Joyoti Dey, RSPH, MPH Epid, formerly in Global Health, RR recruited and advised
Jessica Flannery
Gene & Rose Gangarosa
Joe Looper speaking (Chris Zweifel in background)
Sarah Looper
Jo Rawls
Sarah & Chu?
Sheila Dixon
Madhu and Jagdish Sheth, neighbors, (Jagdish, Professor of Marketing, Emory Goizueta School of Business; Madhu active in building Jain temple)
Ramadan Assi and Roger
Bob Jones and Rich M
Sheila Dixon, Ann Carter McDonald, Allen McDonald (orthopedic surgeon, NAPC, one of our family doctors)
Melanie and Ann Carter
Sheila and Mom
David, Lisa and Roger
Madhu’s sisters
Renata Dennis, RN, MPH, HIV work (NAPC, ISS)
Lisa and Mel
Susan speaking
Jo Rawls
Jagdish Sheth speaking “We don’t see eye to eye” (different heights!)
Madhu Sheth
Allen McDonald came in porch door
Roger
Kathy Hageman by fireplace
Peggy Jones (pink sweater) (neighbors)
Bob Jones re: Scrabble
Roger Glass, CDC epidemiologist, leader in work on Rotavirus vaccine
Dave Krendal, neurologist & plant loving neighbor, arrived and the show & party ends.
----- Original Message ----
From: David and Dorothy <db.weeks@starband.net>
To: "Rochat, Roger" <rochat@rocketmail.com>; Marilee <mjmittel@comcast.net>
Cc: Mary Rochat <maryrochat@charter.net>; J & R ROCHAT <alohaj_r@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:28:15 AM
Subject: 65th
Dear Roger and Marilee,
Thanks Rich, for mailing the CD of the 65th. I watched the whole thing last night and enjoyed it despite the difficulty in hearing. The best part was Rich’s talk.
ROg, When I read Job 29 this morning Job’s thinking of God’s blessings on him reminded me of the CD and your friends. Then I went on to Chap 30. What a change. That won’t happen to you!
“Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When His candle shined upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness;…” Ch 29 1-3
“My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. Unto me men gave ear, and waited and kept silence at my counsel.’’ Ch 29: 30-31
I detect more humility in you than in Job but perhaps I don’t get his whole message. I was impressed with current students whom you counsel and teach. I wish I was one of them. I don’t recall ever being in that position with my brother.
I do know how patient John is. There’s no one better for me to go skiing with. He is kind and patient. I heard last night that’s what you were with your Emory students. That’s neat. I missed a great party. Susan is terrific, too. I miss her. I did recognize several of the folks by face. I’d like a name under each character cuz I couldn’t catch all the names. Who was the African?? In striped shirt. YOU see him in the beginning a lot, he talks, you see him towards the end. He lived with you.
EGHO Fall Picnic! Host: Emory Global Health Organization
Location: Roger Rochat's Lake House
2485 Old Fork Road, Gainsville, GA
When: Saturday, September 30, 12:00pm 2006
Maureen McDonald, social chair
mmcdon5@sph.emory.edu
608-692-1218
From: "Roger Rochat" <rrochat@sph.emory.edu>
To: "RAJU KANNAN" <rkannan_@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Greetings from Bangalore, India
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:14:42 -0500
Dear Kannan,
I am so pleased to hear from you. Would you send me your snail mail address and we'll send you our latest Christmas letter.
Please tell us what you and your family are doing now.
I retired from CDC in Dec 1999, took a brief vacation with my brother in Antarctica, then accepted a position as Professor at Emory University--I love the academic setting. We'd welcome you and your family for a visit if you should ever travel to the USA.
Best regards. Roger
Roger Rochat, M.D.
Director Graduate Studies
Department of Global Health
1518 Clifton Road NE Room 768
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-712-9506
Nope just a guy I hired. Don't remember his name. Just met him at the airport!
Roger
----- Original Message ----
From: D Weeks <db.weeks@esrta.com>
To: "Rochat, Roger" <rochat@rocketmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:41:48 PM
Subject: Emailing: 006_020 sky dive Nov2005
Is this really david on top of you?
Apr 2007 Eric Hatheway was Roger's roommate at U of Rochester. 1961-62. Saw him 1987 at NY airport. Both were in IVCF.
Sep 16, 2007
John, Rich, Marilee
Appreciate the good emails re: Marilee's health issues. Look forward to more reassurances as you get more info.
We had our 200+ guests yesterday at lake house--about 50 cars (including 3 carloads of medical students who are passionately interested in public health)--30+ cars in the field--about 1/3 swam, others kayaked, canoed, used the pontoon boat or played volleyball. So we spent the night in Gainesville--and drove down to Atlanta early this morning to go to early service--and after church, we spent an hour strolling in the Botanical Gardens--their two pomegranate trees are loaded.
Michael and Suzette stopped to have lunch with us--on their way from NC to Birmingham. This evening Drs. Alice Johnson and David Krendel invited us for dinner--very e
2018
Roger Rochat
PROFESSOR
Faculty, Global Health
Jointly Appointed, Epidemiology
During my fourth year of medical school in Seattle in 1965, I received an LSU tropical medicine fellowship to study at the Children’s Hospital in San Jose, Costa Rica. Enroute to San Jose, I hitchhiked to New Orleans via Baltimore and Atlanta, stopping at medical centers to interview for internships.
After my residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, I joined CDC’s EIS program, as Oregon’s first EIS officer. That fall I went to East Pakistan to conduct the first field trial of oral therapy for cholera. Exposures to intense problems associated with rapid population growth, poverty, and crowding led me to change my career.
I transferred to CDC’s Family Planning Evaluation Activity and to the Georgia Health Department. One of my first tasks was to determine whether the 1968 Georgia law legalizing abortion would reduce maternal mortality. Because of continuing unequal access to services, it would not. A lawyer cited this social inequity in Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court case from Georgia that was decided concurrently with Roe V. Wade.
Two years later, CDC supported my studying demography at Princeton. I returned to CDC, spent a year in the CDC Director’s Office of Program Planning and Evaluation supporting medical care for Tuskegee survivors, then returned to the Family Planning Evaluation Division.
With CDC’s major reorganization in 1980-81, I became the first Director of the Division of Reproductive Health. In 1985, CDC assigned me to Emory to develop the Global Health Track, and in 1987 to USAID, New Delhi for two years-in charge of Population, Health and Nutrition. When I returned from India, I spent six years developing Maternal and Child Health epidemiology in the Georgia Health Department.
After 30 years with CDC working in 40+ countries and with most State Health Departments, I retired from CDC in 1999-went with my brother briefly to Antarctica-and then joined RSPH, the first two years in Epidemiology and now in Global Health. I served as Director of Graduate Studies from 2003-2016 and since August 2016, I serve as Coordinator, Humphrey Fellowship Program.
HONORS:
March 1978 - PHS Commendation Medal in recognition of sustained high quality work performance in the development of the international family planning evaluation assistance programs.
September 1981 - CDC Letter of Commendation for contribution to the U.S.-Mexico Border Survey conducted during the period June-Sept 1979 in 51 selected counties in four border states of Texas, NM, AZ, and CA, of maternal and child health planning on the U.S. side of the border.
Oct 1990 - Georgia March of Dimes for producing Infant Health in Georgia: Progress during the 1980s--a collaborative report by Georgia March of Dimes, Georgia Department of Human Resources, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Nov 1990 - CDC Commendation Medal for outstanding work and development of activities to reduce infant mortality and to assist states in conducting analytic projects, and to evaluate their infant mortality problems.
1992 - CDC Meritorious Service Medal for sustained significant contributions to the development of activities to prevent and control morbidity and mortality among infants and women of reproductive age.
1993 - Recipient, Carl Schultz (Population and Reproductive Health) Award, APHA
1996 - Georgia March of Dimes - For contributions to statewide prevalence study of perinatal exposure to cocaine-- a collaborative study by Georgia March of Dimes, Georgia Department of Human Resources, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1999 - MCH Coalition Award for Lifetime Achievement in MCH epidemiology
2001-2002 Rollins School of Public Health, Student Government ‘Professor of the Year’
2004- Ipas In Appreciation “for your distinguished career in public service, research, teaching, and advocacy; for your visionary leadership in advancing maternal and child health, family planning, and women’s access to safe abortion care in the United States and globally; for your mentorship and support of students and young professionals in reproductive health; for your outstanding scholarly contributions over three decades in contraception, abortion, postabortion care and the epidemiology of maternal and child health. We do hereby honor and thank you for your unwavering support for women’s reproductive health and rights around the world.”
May 2009-The Thomas F. Sellers, Jr. Award "For exemplifying the ideals of public health and serving as a role model and mentor to his colleagues. This award is given to an individual who, like the man for whom it is named, represents the best qualities of collegiality."
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May 12, 2009, 2:03 PM
to MARY, John, me, Marilee
So, when I retire from Emory, I have asked Susan to write another poem to enlighten my Emory friends on my shortcomings-a la Mistress Miss Manure! Still, this was a very nice note from one of the Epidemiology faculty-I’m not sharing because of a swelled head-but because you are my family and among my closest friends! Love, Roger
From: Liff, Jonathan M
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:54 PM
To: Rochat, Roger
Subject: Pictures
Roger,
Congratulations again on your well-deserved award. You got it for the many wonderful things you do for so many people. But I will always remember you most for the trip to Chengdu, China that you led some of us on in 1986, just 2 years after I had arrived here. It was my first time out of North America, and a fabulous experience. I appreciated at the time, and still do, your willingness to take that project on when the government could not, even if it meant taking leave time to do so. The acknowledgment you just received from Mirwais also signals your kindness.
In the almost 25 years I have known you, I don’t think I ever have heard you issue an angry or unkind word, (although you have no problem with adding emphasis to your voice to make a point). Of course, that may be because we don’t hang-out together that much. Nevertheless, that is pretty remarkable.
So, again, congratulations on the well-deserved award, enjoy the pictures that are attached, and continue getting from and giving to life all that you can.
You are a fine man.
Jonathan
May 2012 Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, Emory University
Sept 2016 Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2016 National MCH Epidemiology Awards for Contributing Substantially to the Advancement of the Field of MCH Epidemiology with Significant and Lasting Impact. Awarded by the Coalition for Excellence in MCH Epidemiology
Sept 18 2013 Global Health Faculty Seminar:
Global Elimination of Maternal Mortality from Abortion
12 16 2012 8:13am
Dear Dorothy, John, Marilee, Melanie, and Shirley...
Susan has me clearing bookshelves...little by little. I discovered a small book in French, a copy of which, I would gladly share with anyone having an interest in it...of course, it's possible you already have it:
Eric Rochat, Revue Des Rochat, Donnee a l'Abbaye, dans le cadre du 500e, le aout 1980 (40 pages, published Editions "Le Pelerin", 1980). This is a play that was enacted in large tent in L'Abbaye, in 1980, when Mom, Dad, Susan, Mel and I participated in the 500th anniversary of the migration of Vinet and 3 sons to Vallee de Joux. Elaine and Gayle Brockmeier also participated.
Let me know if you're interested. I could scan it in and e mail the scanned version. Or have copies printed and snail mail them.
Love to all, Roger
12 6 2019 Roger 7:20am re: Jun 1966 CMS trip to Mexico
Roger Rochat CMS mission trip
1. Dorothy Weeks can you tell me what you and John did. what city were you in?
Roger Rochat Dorothy Weeks I think small towns and villages in vicinity of Monterrey. Pulling teeth and offering pain removers. I was very disappointed. No preventive medicine. And no connection with local heath facilities. I don’t know what John learned or thought.
2. Dorothy Weeks Roger Rochat what kind of a car was that and whose was it
Roger Rochat Dorothy Weeks I think it was mine. We had 4 spare tires and a camp stove. How do John get home? Didn’t I go directly to New Orleans for internship
As I recall, Grandpa Groth gave me an old car somewhere in time. Don’t remember details type car, when? Where?!!!
Fingers chop
First, when I was perhaps 4-5 yrs old, I held something to be cut and Marilyn chopped and split open the back of my right middle finger--it must have been a small finger back then--the bone was not touched and the scar is pretty much between the two knuckles--so while it may have required stitches, the story looms larger than the damage. I think, second was the hay chopper incident when I foolishly put my hand in a vertical cylindrical pipe with a blade still turning at the bottom. I think it was at the end of slowing down and I couldn't hear it. I remember Dad rushing me to Paul Emmans for stitches. I don't recall John Lewis being on farm during either of those events. Later while cutting weeds with sickles to take to rabbits to eat, John's sickle grazed the tip of my right index finger--leaving today a mild indentation in the skin and a slight vertical red streak under the middle of the nail--- only a very careful observer would notice either!
I have a larger scar on index finger side of left thumb where a crosscut saw blade jumped and landed on the thumb! All minor stuff in big picture of life!
Cheers,
Roger