Bugchasers of Egypt

About the Book

About the Author

Stanley B. Snodgrass is a Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman, USN, Retired (1942-1963). In World War II he served aboard the USS Alabama in both the Atlantic and Pacific (Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, “Marianas Turkey Shoot,” et al.). After the war the Navy trained him in epidemiology prior to his service in Cairo, Egypt and Yokosuka, Japan. When he retired in 1963 he was Preventive Medicine Assistant to the Force Medical Officer, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In the mid-1960s he opened the Ilikai Hotel in Honolulu as its first personnel director. He was executive vice president and administrator of the Convalescent Center of Honolulu from 1969 to 1980, and president and CEO of the Healthcare Association of Hawaii from 1980 to 1990. He earned a master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Hawaii at the age of 54 and later taught there and at Honolulu Community College. He has been married almost sixty years to the former Frances Ethel Conklin of San Francisco, whose 63-day odyssey from her home to Cairo is a story in itself. She and their infant daughter Nancy arrived on 7 January 1947 to become the first dependents in the history of U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit-3, Cairo – now the oldest and largest infectious disease control unit in the Department of Defense.