GUIANESE DOCTOR HOME

OUTSTANDING GUIANESE DOCTOR HOME ON HOLIDAY FROM US.
Dr. Aaron T. Peters returned to the Colony yesterday afternoon on a two weeks vacation. Dr. Peters left British Guiana in September 1937 for the United States of America where he entered Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
He graduated at the top of his class with Magna Cum Laude in 1941. He entered Howard University in 1943 from where he graduated with an MD degree in 1946. He spent one year internship at Harlem Hospital in New York before going into private practice in Brooklyn which community he is now serving. He is a member of the staff of Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn and the Mount Morris Park Hospital in New York.
Dr. Peters specialized in Neurology and is a member of the King’s County Medical Society, and a member of the King’s Council Surgeons’ Society. He obtained membership to the latter only a few months ago after his career as a surgeon had been carefully scrutinized by his associates. Members of this society must uphold the highest ideals in Surgery. He is also a Major in the National Guards of the United States Army.
Dr. Peters who is the son of the Reverend A. T. Peters, M.A., said that he noticed that there was much improvement in the economic civic and cultural live in the colony. He said that he was very happy to be back to meet his old friends and contemporaries.
An old boy of St. Saviour’s, St. Stephen’s and Ketley Primary Schools, Dr. Peters won Government County Scholarship in 1928 from Ketley’s and then went to Queen’s College. He was an apprentice Sick nurse and Dispenser under Dr. L. R. Sharples at Port Mourant from 1931 to 1933 before entering the Georgetown Hospital. He qualified as a Dispenser in 1936. He then opened a dispensary in Fyrish Village on the Corentyne in 1937. He left the same year for the USA.
Dr. Peters intends to make a tour of Berbice before he returns to the USA.