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Toxicological Sciences 53, 157-158 (2000)
Copyright © 2000 by the Society of Toxicology

Profiles in Toxicology

Harold Carpenter Hodge (1904–1990)

Paul E. Morrow*,1, Hanspeter Witschi{dagger}, M. Vore, P. E. Hakkinen, Judith MacGregor, James MacGregor, Marion W. Anders and Calvin Willhite

* University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14620; {dagger} University of California, Davis, California 95616

Received August 30, 1999; accepted September 3, 1999

Harold Hodge was the first president of the Society of Toxicology. Elected to the office by the nine founding fathers of our society on March 4, 1961, he immediately assumed a very active role in organizing the society by looking for support from all those who were interested in the science of toxicology. At two national meetings, FASEB in Atlantic City and the Society of Pharmacology in Rochester, he led discussions in which the goals of the newly created society were explained to interested scientists. Many questions had to be answered. But on April 15, 1962, he would preside over the first annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology. The Society was conceived as a learned society for people trained in various disciplines related to toxicology. In his opening remarks, Hodge pointed to the occasion as being truly historical. The Society would draw together all those with an interest . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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