After spending a beingness moving successful and helping the Schenectady area, section doc and quality person Clifford Tepper celebrated his 100th day this week.
Tepper lived successful Schenectady astir each of his life, helium grew from humble beginnings and became well-known not lone arsenic a section doc but arsenic an progressive subordinate of the community.
“Meeting (my wife) Cynthia was the astir important thing,” Clifford Tepper said. “And, besides my vocation successful medicine, birdwatching, and drawing, coating and art.”
Tepper was calved and raised successful Schenectady and lived determination his full beingness until conscionable astir 4 years agone erstwhile helium and his woman Cynthia moved to Bethesda Maryland to beryllium person to family.
Clifford Tepper was calved October 26, 1922 to eastbound European Jewish migrant parents Anna Lifschitz and Solomon Tepper. The household lived connected Oxford Place successful Schenectady. Clifford Tepper grew to go a locally renowned doc and was progressive successful galore section groups and organizations.
“He worked good into his 80s, astir to his 90s,” Henry said. “He had this benignant of astonishing vocation successful medicine, but that truly doesn’t archer the full communicative astir him. My begetter has a type-A personality, helium was incredibly incredibly energetic, and had this gigantic appetite for information, and a precise wide-range of interests.”
Clifford Tepper came from a precise humble background, his lad Henry Tepper said. He explained neither of Clifford Tepper’s parents were educated. Clifford and his member Jason Tepper were some astute children who received scholarships to be Union College.
“He worked his mode done Union, and helium didn’t adjacent graduate,” Henry said. “In those days sometimes radical near schoolhouse earlier they graduated and helium was accepted into aesculapian schoolhouse astatine Columbia University successful New York City. He near national aft astir two-and-a-half years and went to aesculapian schoolhouse and became a doctor.”
Dad went to aesculapian schoolhouse successful his US Air Force azygous and entered progressive subject work aft graduating aesculapian school, said Henry Tepper. Clifford Tepper was stationed successful Tampa and past successful Fairbanks Alaska wherever helium was Chief Medical Officer astatine Eileson Air Force Base moving mobile hospitals.
Clifford Tepper became a pediatrician and was committee certified successful allergy and immunologist. He met his wife, the erstwhile Cynthia Ruth Silver and they were joined successful 1951. This year, the mates celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary
Clifford Tepper brought his Queens-born woman to Schenectady wherever helium opened a pediatric signifier among different doc and dental offices connected Upper Union Street. His member Jason Tepper joined the signifier a fewer years aboriginal and the brothers were aboriginal joined by different doc Jim Kennedy. Clifford Tepper besides taught astatine Albany Medical School passim his career.
The bureau of Tepper, Tepper and Kennedy became a Schenectady instauration from the 1950s to the 1990s, Henry Tepper said.
“Everybody I knew increasing up went there, my and my siblings’ friends, everyone we knew went to them arsenic doctors,” Henry Tepper said. “They were the section pediatricians.”
Throughout his beingness Clifford Tepper had a precise wide scope of interests, said Henry Tepper. Clifford was a lifelong vertebrate watcher, helium was precise funny successful nature, helium loved to question each implicit the world, enjoys art, and was precise progressive successful assemblage service.
“He was connected many, galore boards, and volunteered for endless organizations,” Henry Tepper said. “He was connected the committee of the section Synagogue, helium was the president of the New England Allergy Association, helium was connected the room board, helium was connected the committee of the Schenectady Museum, helium helped make a quality sanctuary successful Niskayuna, helium helped support a portion of onshore adjacent Lock Seven.”
In his 80s, Clifford Tepper was portion of a radical of different doctors who helped to signifier the Schenectady Free Clinic, a aesculapian session successful downtown Schenectady. Clifford worked astatine the session which provided escaped aesculapian attraction to the community.
“He was specified a pillar of his community, and helium believed truly powerfully successful the community,” Henry Tepper said.
Clifford Tepper was ever a small self-conscious astir the information that helium had ne'er gotten his assemblage grade from Union College, adjacent though helium was a doctor, Henry Tepper said. After decades of moving arsenic a doctor, Union College awarded Clifford Tepper his grade astatine 80-years-old.
In September Union College celebrated his achievements by giving Clifford Tepper a Distinguished Alumni Award.
Clifford and Cynthia person 4 children, Stewart, Nancy, Audry and Henry, six grandchildren, Clinton, Sam, Kate, Miles, Annie, Jonathan, 1 great-grandson, Boone, and different great-grandchild connected the way.
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