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Max Boone regarded as a ‘caring’doctor
The pioneer in radiation therapy helped develop cancer treatment techniques.
Colleagues called Dr. Max L.M. Boone ”brilliant” and ”caring,” but he also was persuasive – getting the University of Arizona and other hospitals to start up the UA Cancer Center in the early 1970s.
Boone, a pioneer in the use of heat to destroy cancer cells, died Sunday in Prescott at his home after a long illness. He was 65.
Dr. Paul Capp, former head of the University of Arizona Medical School’s Department of Radiology and now professor emeritus, recruited Dr. Boone to help start the UA Medical School in 1971.
”He quickly realized southern Arizona needed a cancer center,” Capp said. ”Early on, he helped talk the powers-that-be into making that happen.
”He convinced the hospitals in Tucson and the county Medical Society that because of the huge cost of equipment needed for radiation, only one center was needed.
”They all agreed, and supported that in the Legislature, which gave $2.3 million for the radiation oncology program,” Capp said. ”That was the beginning of the Cancer Center, in 1973.”
Capp said Dr. Boone ”recruited some of the finest basic scientists in his field in this country. He and Gene Gerner were the world’s first people developing hyperthermia in treatment of cancer.”
He said Dr. Boone ”had one of the most brilliant minds I’ve ever seen, which was unfortunately ruptured by illness early in his life. He developed ankylosing spondylitis.”
The disease is a severe form of rheumatoid arthritis that attacks the spine.
Another colleague, Dr. Michael R. Manning, a radiation oncologist with Southwestern Radiation Oncology, said he feels fortunate to have worked with Dr. Boone.
”He was one of the brightest, most-intelligent and caring persons I’ve ever had the opportunity to know,” Manning said.
”He was a real hands-on doctor, the old-fashioned country doctor, yet he was able to put together his doctorly skills and his brilliance in such a way as to excite new young doctors to learn, to join the ranks in the field of radiation therapy and to be creative and develop new treatment techniques.
”He was my mentor, much like a second father to me.”
Dr. Boone was born May 23, 1931, in Peru, Ind., to teachers Daniel and Jessie Boone.
He graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1956 and practiced family medicine in his hometown for the next five years. He completed his radiology residency in Cincinnati in 1964 and his radiation oncology residency in London, England, and Houston two years later.
In 1968, while on the staff of M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, he earned a doctoral degree in physics from University of Texas.
Moving to Wisconsin, he headed the radiation oncology department at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison until his move to UA in 1971.
For his pioneering work with hyperthermia, the use of heat to destroy cancer cells, with Gerner, UA professor of radiation and oncology, Dr. Boone was awarded the gold medal award of the International Clinical Hyperthermia Society in the early 1990s.
Dr. Boone was forced to retire in 1985, as a result of arthritis and diabetes. He moved to Prescott.
His daughter, Linda Hunt of Prescott, said, ”He told me summer before last, as we sat in his study surrounded by his national and international awards, that his five children were the crowning achievements in his life.
”No matter how long his workday, he took the time to read to us, took us to fly kites, took family vacations. He never let his work be slighted, or his family be slighted.”
Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Carol Lee Boone; two daughters, Linda Hunt and Emily Boone-Roberts, both of Prescott; three sons, George Boone of Tucson, Dr. Max Boone of Athens, Ala., and David Boone of Chino Valley, Calif; a sister, Mildred Ernsberger of San Rafael, Calif.; and 11 grandchildren.
A memorial service is scheduled today in Prescott. Graveside services will be private.
The family suggests memorials to the Salvation Army.
(Dated Nov 20, 1996)
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‘Lalo’ Robles, 80, longtime muscian
The bandleader, who died of cancer earlier this week, had a real love of music.
Almost up until his death Tuesday, Eduardo ”Lalo” Robles played the big band music he loved at weddings, benefits and quince±eras in Tucson.
A mass was to be held this morning at St. Augustine Cathedral for Robles, 80, a bandleader and musician for eight decades.
”He could listen to a new song on the radio and go to his desk and write it for an entire orchestra,” said his son, Eddie Robles, 60. ”That’s how good an ear he had.”
Lalo Robles and his orchestra were a regular on the big band circuit, traveling throughout Arizona and playing at Tucson ballrooms such as the Del Rio, Bob’s Ballroom and the Spanish Trail, his son said.
An alto saxophone and bass player, Robles occasionally joined renowned Mexican musicians when they played in Tucson.
Robles was born in Douglas and moved to Tucson in 1945.
Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro grew up with Robles in Pirtleville, near Douglas. Castro was born a few months before Robles, and the two boys attended elementary school together.
”He played typical ranchero music and typical Mexican songs,” Castro said. ”He was very popular and very much in demand.”
Castro hired Robles to play at campaign stops when Castro was running for governor.
”Everybody had real admiration for Lalo and liked him,” Castro said. ”He didn’t have an enemy in the world.”
Robles worked as a bricklayer and remained a construction worker throughout his life, saving his spare time for his music.
”He lived to hear the sound of music,” said son Eddie. ”He shared his gift . . . from his heart and soul.”
Eddie said Robles played with Mexican romantic music composer Agustin Lara when Lara visited Tucson, and Robles and his band played backup for Cantiflas when the famed Mexican comedian toured Arizona.
Eddie said Robles was playing at a party two months ago when he began to feel ill. He died of abdominal cancer.
Before his death, Robles married his longtime companion, whom he met after his first wife died in 1984.
”That was his last wish, to get married,” Eddie said.”And he did it. It was a surprise to all of us.”
Two of his granddaughters, both disc jockeys at KXCI radio station, played their grandfather’s music in a tribute on the radio Wednesday night.
Robles is survived by his wife, Francisca Vargas Robles, nine children, and more than 60 grandchildren.
(Dated Nov 22, 1996)
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Fund-raiser Henry Brandt, at 68
The ad executive started funds for the Tucson and Phoenix Catholic dioceses.
Funeral services were held today for longtime charitable fundraiser and advertising executive Henry P. ”Hank” Brandt, who died Sunday at age 68.
Mr. Brandt moved his national ecclesiastical fund-raising firm from New York City to Tucson 25 years ago, adding advertising and public relations work performed by Hank Brandt Associates Inc.
Mr. Brandt, who was born in Queens, N.Y., in 1928, attended Seton Hall and St. John’s universities before joining the U.S. Army. He started Brandt-Semenza, a firm that raised money for religious organizations, in 1958.
His firm started the annual Bishop’s Fund for the Diocese of Tucson in 1961 and a similar fund for the Diocese of Phoenix in 1969.
Two years after moving the firm to Tucson, Mr. Brandt and his family became residents here. While continuing its national fund-raising, Hank Brandt Associates became active in Tucson, conducting hundreds of fund-raising campaigns here.
Mr. Brandt was a member of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives and was among the earliest members of the Tucson Advertising Club.
He retired in 1993, leaving his daughter, Regina Brandt, to run the advertising and public relations end of the business, and his son, Bruce Brandt, to serve as vice president and oversee fund-raising efforts.
Mr. Brandt is survived by his wife, Joan; sons Henry III and Bruce; daughter Regina and two grandchildren, Henry IV and Rachel, all of Tucson.
Donations may be made to the 35th Anniversary Expansion Campaign at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Clinic, 140 W. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, Ariz., 85705.
(Dated Nov 27, 1996)
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Dancer, barkeep Neil Cowhey, 58
He performed in local productions of ”The Nutcracker Ballet” and ”Fiddler on the Roof.”
Even though he had no speaking lines, Neil Cowhey made his mark in every local production of ”Fiddler on the Roof” – by dancing.
Mr. Cowhey, a familiar Tucson stage personality, died Saturday at age 58.
He used his ballet training to master the role of Drosselmeyer in ”The Nutcracker,” but his real love was ”Fiddler on the Roof,” his former wife said.
”He never had to say a word, but he was in all the scenes,” Harriett Cowhey said. ”That’s why I think he enjoyed the role (of the fiddler) so much.”
Mr. Cowhey, who performed and choreographed numbers with numerous local theater troupes, died of complications from pneumonia and emphysema, she said.
He was raised in Enfield, Conn., and moved with his family to Tucson in 1967. Not long after his arrival, Mr. Cowhey made his first local stage appearance, she said.
”I remember the first thing he ever got involved in here was a show at the Jewish Community Center called ”Milk and Honey,” Harriett Cowhey said.
”He did a lot of things with Playbox when it was around and he was a choreographer with SALOC (Southern Arizona Light Opera Company) in the early years.”
He also instructed, coached, and performed with The Hot Flashes, an all-female senior citizen tap dancing group, said Tim Cowhey, his son.
Mr. Cowhey began dancing when he was about 7 and went on to study with Peter Gennero and Walter Painter in New York City.
He studied ballet with George Zovich at the University of Arizona, Harriett Cowhey said.
Mr. Cowhey toured Europe performing with the United Service Organizations while in the Army in the late 1950s and early 1960s, then continued a USO-type show in New England following his military discharge.
In addition to his stage activities, he tended bar in Tucson taverns, Harriett Cowhey said.
Mr. Cowhey is survived by his sons, Tim and Murry of Tucson, and his daughters, Kathryn of New York City and Dee Dee of Tucson.
A memorial service is scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday at Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, 1946 E. Lee St.
(Dated Nov 27, 1996)
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