European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Fly 10 of icy is by i of to Guyton and his wife Ruth relax in the Garden at their Home. Work. He d come Home at 5. Immediately eat dinner and sit Down and watch Walter Cronkite then he d go into the living room and Start working on his Douglas Iclet the most pressure to live up to the family standards there came a Point in Junior High school when f was so tired of hearing everybody Tell me How Brilliant All my Brothers and Sisters were. I began to make it a Point to show people i could be just an average Douglas says he kept up his a average his father insisted on it. But i studied for the grades not the knowledge i became a slacker and it hurl me later when Douglas reached his Sophomore year at Ole miss i realized i d never made a Choice to go into Medicine. I simply fell into the track of All my Brothers i said i wanted to be a doctor but i had no idea what hat when he returned to school in january after taking a semester off he d finally made his own decision though he Laler spent several years figuring out what kind of doctor to be. Ultimately he chose Anaesthesiology because it enabled him to spend the most time with his own children. A lot of the pressures i Felt growing up were put on me by myself it took a Long Lime to realize that sure you re a Guyton but people Don t always perceive you that Way they also can see you As Douglas was t the Only Guyton to marry in route to and. Catherine Guyton Greenberger no. 5, an internist and the wife of a doctor is 35 now she still introduces herself As the Black sheep " i did t go to medical school right she explains. I got my . organic chemistry. Harvard. Of Kate Hhd a at a family gathering. All the children Are involved in them medical Field. It if ptember21,1986 for Jeannie and me. It was t so much a question of whether we d to doctors. It was wondering whether to to a wife and Mother or a Catherine whom brother Douglas describes As frighteningly decided to to All three doctor wife and Mother of two. Jeannie. Also an internist got married last summer growing up in a family of 10 can Foster fierce individualism it is june 1985 Greg s High school graduation Day no. 10 son Salu Antorian of Lur a i .3 leaves Home Early to rehearse his commencement speech Mother seizes the Opportunity to his room she notices a copy of his speech lying around so she picks it up and starts Reading it strikes her As somewhat Ordinary. Then she notices the note in the margin Start juggling juggling being the latest Hobby Greg has picked up Ruth Guyton decides against mentioning this to her husband As they sit in the sweltering auditorium hours later wailing for their son s speech it goes something like this As individuals a class can not really do very much Greg sets a juggling pin on the floor in Small groups it can do a trifling performance he juggles two pins but coordinated it can do a great performance. The rest of the pins Are added occasionally there Are failures. A pin drops but when you have failed you pick yourselves up and Start Over the pin is retrieved and now. It is Lime Lor members of the class of 85 to go their separate ways the pins Are tossed into the audience the crowd goes wild coins Are thrown on stage Arthur Guylon having recovered from the Shock of it All. Beams with Pride the image is firmly imbedded in Ruth Guyton s memory it was one of the greatest moments of my when Greg leaves Home in september to begin his Sophomore year at Vanderbilt. His Mother will keep in touch with him the same Way she has with the others by letter she apologizes for sending her children Carbon copies but always makes it a Point to add one or two personalized pages and to rotate that last Laded copy so that nobody feels neglected. Nobody does. As the far Flung sons and daughters of Guyton raise their own children in Baltimore Atlanta. Houston. Seattle. Massachusetts. Iowa and Florida. The lessons of a Mississippi childhood Are passed on to a new generation. Douglas says hell build his kids a big workshop with lots of tools. Robert will encourage his children to learn on their own hardening Back to the Days when his father gave him a Dollar for each Book he read. John will teach his kids How to already he finds himself teasing them prodding them tickling their minds As his father tickled his. None of them expect the grandchildren of Guylon to become doctors least of All their Granddaddy. Who Points out that the life of a research and teaching physician differs greatly from that of a practising doctor. The Type of Medicine i m in looks like a Nice Arthur Guyton explains. If i d been on Call All the time working All hours i doubt very much that my children would have chosen his children agree. My father had lots of the advantages of Medicine and Lew disadvantages says Robert a cardiac surgeon. My children i think would be much More hesitant they be seen the hours i and yet. Douglas admits he finds it hard to dispel the notion that heredity is destiny. A lot of us believe it to a great extent. Thai s Why it took me so Long to find the woman i and John confesses that. Watching his daughter at play he could t help but notice something that struck him As a bit unusual she did show an interest in science at an Early an Early age to a Guylon turns out to be 2. Well i know in sounds strange. But when she d have a Mosquito bite or a scrape she d just show the greatest fascination with her own the stars and stripes Page 15
