Roger Wayne Wallace, Ph.D.
Father, Teacher, Friend - Page 5
1919 -2011
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wallace was born in 1954, Douglas (Doug) in 1956, and Arthur (Art) in 1959. Roger and Isabelle designed and then built a 4,500 square foot house in Orinda, California. It was extremely modern at the time with large plate glass windows, an electrical outlet with both standard and switched power every 18 inches along the wall, wiring for cable TV (this was in 1958), a shuffle board court, an 8 by 8 foot chess set in the floor, lighting for photography, and an intercom. It was fantastic. Two weeks after they moved in, the nearby fire station burned down, and the county moved the county line, putting the house in Berkeley. Thirteen years later they sold it to avoid the People’s Republic of Berkeley and they moved back to Orinda proper. It was a wonderful house, with a wonderful view to the east, behind, as Roger would say, the blast line of the hills.
Isabelle died in 1972 and Roger quickly remarried a psychiatrist named Marjorie Hayes, M.D. Roger and Marjorie travelled extensively on cruise ships and then freighters. Betsy attended Hayward State University and then attended and graduated from U.C. Davis. Betsy is married to a veterinarian and lives in Dixon, California with her husband and three children. Doug attended the University of London, U.C. San Diego, and U.C. Davis and then graduated in Biochemistry from U.C. Davis. He attended graduate school at U.C.L.A. in Biochemistry and then medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Doug served as a Navy physician for more than 20 years and is now a cardiac surgeon in Illinois. Doug is married to a neuroradiologist and has two children, a son who is a medical student in the Navy and a daughter who is in Naval Aviator’s Training. Art attended Yale College in Electrical Engineering and then received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in Biomedical Engineering and an M.D. at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Art is a professor at U.C. San Francisco in Anesthesiology. He is married to a linguist/educator and they have two children. Roger had a firmly held belief in education, science, and medicine, and pushed many students to become physicians. He helped Marjorie’s nephew Daryl Browne go to graduate school at UCB. Daryl then received a M.D. from Yale Medical School and is now a psychiatrist in San Francisco.
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