Today, with just 15 days until our football home opener, we honor Ernie Manders. The following is from his induction into the Marshfield Hall of Fame in 2009:
Ernest Manders, M.D:
Dr. Manders, who graduated from Marshfield in 1963, was a standout football player for the Pirates, but has made his name since high school in academics.
- He was an all-state football player as a junior and senior and was selected to play in the Shrine Game his senior year.
- He also was editor of the Mahiscan and a National Merit Scholar.
- He also met his wife, Sandra (Burles) Manders at Marshfield.
After graduating from Marshfield, Manders received his undergraduate education at Harvard College and then attended Harvard Medical School. After a surgical internship at the University of Michigan, he worked for two years as a research associate in the Laboratory of Viral Oncology at the National Institutes of Health. He returned to the University of Michigan, where he completed his training in general surgery and plastic surgery, joined the faculty at Penn State University in 1981 and has been a professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh since 1977.
He is a member of seven national surgery or plastic surgery groups, including the American College of Surgeons and American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. His methods for reconstructing the scalp with tissue expansion and his designs for tissue expanders used to reconstruct breasts after mastectomies have become standard for use around the world.
Away from school, Manders was a Scout master for 12 years and received the Silver Beaver, the highest honor for adult leaders in Boy Scouts. Ernest and Sandra Manders have four children, Ernie, Jonathan, Christian and Joanna, who all graduated in the top three of their high school classes and went on to receive Ivy League educations.
The World article ‘Local standout returns to Bay Area‘ 2015
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