Kenneth L. Toppell

Kenneth Toppell graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1963 with a degree in History and Political Science, the same year that the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Yankees in four straight games to win the World Series. The next month, President Kennedy was assassinated and baseball faded from view. Dr. Toppell graduated from Emory University School of Medicine followed by a medical residency at Baylor College of Medicine. With fellowship training in the military. Dr. Toppell became Major Toppell, US Army, Medical Corps for the next five years. He went on to practice Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in Houston, Texas for forty years with some time out for lectures in American History. He now lives in Plano, Tx. where he reads, writes, and enjoys life with his wife, Loretta, who ran away with him fifty-five years ago. In Atlanta, they still don't think that will last.