Reuben L. Sharp - South Jersey Medical History

<span class="subhead">South Jersey Medical</span> History </div></TD> <TD align=middle width="25%"><IMG src="../images/7cam.gif" alt="Pictures of our campuses" width="168" height="110" border=0> </TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE> <hr>   <center> <table BORDER=0 WIDTH="100%" > <tr> <td ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER><img SRC="../images/Reuben.jpg" HSPACE=5 VSPACE=5 BORDER=0 height=194 width=160></td> <td> <center class="big"> Reuben Lore Sharp </center></td> </tr> </table> </center> <hr> <br> Reuben Lore Sharp, M.D. was born in Mullica Hill, N.J., on August 14, 1897. He died on his farm in Mt Holly on October 17, 1968. <p>He attended public schools and matriculated at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. During his freshman year, however, his father, who was a practicing physician in Camden even though he continued to reside with his family on a large operating farm in Mullica Hill, passed away. In this crisis it fell to Reuben as the oldest son to leave college and take over the running of the farm. This was during World War I. <p>His work on the farm gave him an automatic draft exemption, a circumstance which was to bother, if not embarrass, him until the day he volunteered for the Naval Medical Corps in World War II. <p>After operating the farm for three years, arrangements were made for him to return to college where he distinguished himself as a student and an athlete. Football was his special sport, and he played on the varsity for three years. <p>Following graduation he entered the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and then interned at the Graduate Hospital. Subsequently he spent two years as an associate of Dr. Henry Bockus, an internationally know gastro-enterologist at the University, before opening his own offices in Camden. He was promptly appointed to the Cooper Medical Staff, and soon thereafter he was certified by the Board of Internal Medicine. <p>Immediately after Pearl Harbor and our entry into World War II, he enlisted and was appointed senior medical officer of the 4th Division, U.S. Marines, and had a distinguished combat record in the South Pacific. His naval combat duty was a source of great satisfaction to him because he was so keenly aware of his duty to his country. In 1946 he was released from active duty and returned to his Camden office and the hospital. <p>Dr. Sharp was a former president of the Camden County Medical Society and for many years was a trustee of the Medical Society of the State of New Jersey. He was a former Chief, Department of Medicine, at Cooper. <p>Dr. Sharp is survived by his widow, the former Mary Chambers, and four children. <p>Dr. Sharp had a large practice, and there are few among his patients who will ever forget him. He had an innate ability to inspire confidence. He was genuinely sensitive to the health of others, and it was ever his wont to subordinate himself to their needs. His professional colleagues will remember him as a distinguished internist and gastro-enterologist. The public will remember him as the epitome of honesty, unbending in integrity, and always demanding of himself that he do the "right" thing as his judgment dictated. <hr> <p align="left">Return to <a href="http://www4.umdnj.edu/camlbweb/sjmedhist/">South Jersey Medical History</a>. </td> </tr> </table></center>   <p><a href="javascript:history.go(-1)" class="smalllink" onmouseover="window.status='Return to previous page';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;"><img src="../images/back_arrow.gif" alt="Return to previous page" width="40" height="25" border="0" align="absmiddle"> Return to the previous page</a> </p> <p></p> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-1201916-20"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); </script> </BODY></HTML>