Augustus A. White

Augustus A. White III, born on 4 June 1936, is an American orthopedic surgeon and educator who also played lacrosse as a student. At Brown University he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and varsity letters in football and lacrosse, before attending Stanford University Medical School, where he served as student body president and graduated in 1961. He went on to a medical career in which he was the first African American medical student at Stanford, a surgical resident at Yale, and a professor of medicine at Yale, and later became Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and a professor of medical education at Harvard Medical School. This atlas records him for his varsity lacrosse play at Brown.