Appendix C
Armstrong Laboratory Staff
The Author’s Recollection of the Rickettsial Unit Personnel During His Tour of
Duty at the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Microbiological Institute,
National Institutes of Health from August,-1948 to September, 1952.
This list of people is intended as a chronology of those associated with the
laboratory during this particular time period. It includes the people with whom the author
worked while assigned to Dr. Robert J. Huebner’s unit, and also the individuals in
Buildings 5 and 7 who attended the daily luncheon sessions on the second floor
conference room of Building 7. This was a time of socializing and exchanging views on a
variety of subjects not necessarily related to work. The previous careers of many are
detailed in the history of the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service by Ralph
C. Williams.
Viral and Rickettsial Unit
Professional Personnel Dr. Robert J. Huebner, M.D. - Chief, Senior Surgeon, USPHS.
Dr. Edward A. Beeman, M.D. - Research Associate, S.A. Surgeon, USPHS
Dr. Lauri Luoto, D.V.M. - Research Associate, USPHS.
Worked in Bethesda and Downey, California in the Q Fever Laboratory.
(^) projects. Dr. Angela Briefs, Ph.D. - Part time visiting scientist, 1951-1952 -special
Laboratory Associates
Sara Elizabeth (Betty) Ransom, M.S. - Chief Bacteriologist.
Horace (Chick) Turner - Chief of the Serology Section.
William Baker - Laboratory Technician. John D. Estes - Laboratory Technician.
Richard K. Lynt - Laboratory Technician.
Leroy Snellbaker - Laboratory Technician.
Julius (Rudy) Kasel – Laboratory Technician- later Ph.D.
Charles F. Knauff - Chief Animal Handler. Frank J. West - Animal Handler.
James M. Turner - Animal Handler.
Toby Bowman - Factotum and Gopher.