FAMILY
Thomas J. Walsh, M.D., Born September 18, 1931.
Sally Maust Walsh -- My wife. Died on December 10, 2010.
Thomas (Tommy) Raymond Walsh -- My son, born in 1959.
Sara Walsh -- My daughter, born in 1962.
Kelly Walsh -- My daughter, born in 1965.
Meg Walsh -- My daughter, born in 1966.
Thomas Walsh Sr. -- My father, born on June 1, 1891. Died in 1965.
Virginia Hughes Walsh -- My mother, born on June 1, 1901. Died 1937.
Ray Maust -- Sally's father. Died in 1974.
Sara Maust -- Sally's mother. Died May 19, 1972.
Aunt May (Hughes) Stuart -- Sister of my mother.
Aunt Marge (Walsh) Potter -- Sister of my father.
Cummings family -- Cousins of the Hughes' family who lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland, when I was growing up.
Father John Quinn -- Son of Aunt Kitty. He got me back into Xavier and was about to marry Sally and me, but he died before the wedding.
Bridge of Armagh -- Separates the two Irelands and is where the Donegans and Hughes come from. The Donegans are from Sally’s family. The Hughes are from my mother’s family.
Associates and Acquaintances
Bruton ''Doc'' Schardt -- He was a friend from Korea. He was West Point Class of 1944. His roommate was John Eisenhower, son of Dwight.
Buzz Aldrin -- He was second man to walk on the Moon. He was a senior at West Point when I was Plebe. He was Class of 1951.
Cardinal Avery Dulles -- A friend. Taught me at Fordham. One of the Cardinals that Sally went to Rome to see.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick -- Partner in debate club in my senior year when we won the city championship. Became Cardinal with Avery Dulles and Edward Egan, who was our bishop before that.
Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne -- Met him when I was working in Peru. He was the other bishop with Dulles to be elevated to Cardinal.
Charles Norman Shaffer -- Classmate and friend at Xavier. He became a lawyer and was part of a legal team that put Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in prison. He later was John Dean’s Watergate lawyer. These were all in the first 10 years of his practice.
Colonel (Dr.) Budd Appleton -- Chief of Ophthalmology at Walter Reed when I started in 1966.
Dr. Bill Collins -- Good friend and chief of Neuro-Surgery at Yale.
Dr. Carl Weiss -- Roommate at St. Vincent's Hospital where I interned. His father shot and killed Gov. Huey Long of Louisiana in 1935.
Dr. Frank Walsh -- Not a relative. Founder of Neuro-Ophthalmology and professor at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Katherine Lao -- Only trained Neuro-Ophthalmologist in China in the 1980s. She was a life-long friend and then worked with me at Yale for a semester.
Dr. Hu Senior -- Initial Chairman of Ophthalmology first trip to China
Dr. Tennyson Hu -- Later Ophthalmology chair at Beijing and friend.
Dr. Marvin Sears -- My first chairman at Yale.
Dr. Mike and Thalia Saunders -- Head of Neuro-Ophthalmology at Queen Square in London. A good friend who let me use his office as needed.
Dr. Richard Lindenberg -- Baltimore coroner and friend in Neuro-Op.
Dr. Wilbur Rucker -- Retired Chairman at Mayo Clinic when I met him in 1965. He was a Neuro-Ophthalmologist. I received the editorship of the Academy field book from him, and I am still editor today.
Freddie Schumacher -- Classmate at Xavier and regimental Colonel. He wanted to go to West Point but did not get in. He was heir to the fabric company by same name.
General Adolf Galland -- Head of German fighters for the Battle of Britain.
General Duffy -- CO of Fort Eustis Transportation Corps Camp. Friend of my uncle who was in charge of his trucks on D-day since he had his own trucking firm.
General Carter McGruder -- Commanding officer of the 8th Army in Korea.
General Mervyn Magee -- Class of 1931 at the Academy. CO in Korea.
Irene and William Barrack -- Good friends whom the girls rode horses with. He was very senior executive for Texaco.
Jack Dempsey -- Heavyweight champion boxer from 1919-1926.
Jan Van Delft -- Right-hand man to Mr. Grace in Grace shipping.
Joan and Jake Keever -- Longtime friends. He was head of sales at ABC and in charge of ABC’s participation in many Olympics. Sally and Joan were close golf friends.
John Countryman -- Classmate of mine at Xavier and later at Fordham and longtime friend. First ambassador to Oman. Debate partner in my senior year at Xavier and won the city championship again.
John and Bea Day -- Friends. John was very senior executive at Texaco. Bea was the Weyerhaeuser heir.
Oral Roberts -- A traveling preacher. I saw when I was in medical school. He made so much money that he founded the Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma.
Peggy (O’Shaughnessy) Heckler -- Sally's roommate at college. Later was in President Reagan's cabinet as head of HEW. Was later ambassador to Ireland.
Robert and Jerry Woods -- Close friends for many years. First Captain in the Class at 1945 at West Point. Later Chairman of Doubleday Publishing.
Sergei Sikorsky -- Son of Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the first helicopter.
Robert McGohey -- His father was District Attorney for Southern District of New York and was the first one to send the Communists to jail.
The Bass Brothers -- Texas multi, multi-millionaires who went to Yale.
Tom Paprocki -- Close friend. His father helped me get my appointment to West Point. He was my roommate at the Academy.
Vince Lombardi -- One of football's Seven Blocks of Granite linemen at Fordham. He was one of my football coaches at West Point.
Leo Paquin -- Another Block of Granite who was my football coach at Xavier. He also taught me mathematics.
Ambassador Zawahiri -- Number two man in Oman. He arranged my trip to Oman. He was not number two man to Osama bin Laden.