About New York. New York City. visitors can enjoy the All Loops Tour. but the real star here is the prime aged steak. REVIEW: ALL ABOUT JAZZ - NEW YORK - 200903. Explore. The pianist chose a dozen previously unissued selections from the sessions. New York City. News. On the morning of Sept. Dr. Paul Ambrose, senior clinical adviser for the Office of the Surgeon General in Washington, D. C., boarded American Airlines Flight 7. Los Angeles. Thirty- five minutes into his flight, the plane passed over Huntington, W. Va., Paul’s beloved hometown, when hijackers overtook the cockpit and turned the plane east toward the nation’s capital. At 9: 3. 7 a. m. the plane crashed into the western side of the Pentagon, killing all 6. United States Department of Defense. At the same time, thick black smoke was billowing across the clear blue skies of New York City after two commercial airplanes slammed into the towers of the World Trade Center. America would soon learn it was under attack, and the nation would never be the same again. Life would never be the same again for Ken and Sharon Ambrose, Paul’s parents, Bianca Angelino, his fiancée, or the hundreds of people who came to know and love the charismatic doctor who was just 3. While his death was a tragic loss to those who knew him, it was also a devastating loss for the entire nation. A renowned leader, Paul Ambrose was a healer and a visionary whose life – which had already shown so much greatness – was destined for even more. The first thing people noticed when they met Paul Ambrose were his striking good looks.“My first impression of Paul was that he was ridiculously handsome,” noted Erin Fuller, who worked with Paul at the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) in Washington, D.
C. “But once you got to know him you saw what a great, interesting and fascinating guy he really was.”Chris Durso, editor of the AMSA magazine, recalled a similar first encounter with Paul over lunch.“I looked at this guy across the table from me, with his deep blue eyes and chiseled cheekbones and cool clothes, and I prepared to write him off,” Durso said. By the end of the meal, after Paul had intelligently touched on his experiences hiking through South America, on the need for a more cogent public health infrastructure and on the writings of Hunter S. Thompson, I felt chagrined. As anyone who knew him can tell you, Paul was the real deal.”Indeed there was much more to Paul Ambrose than meets the eye. Incandescently brilliant, engaging, caring and driven, he was determined to make a difference in America and was well on his way to doing so. He had already garnered the attention of former U. S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop who took him under his wing and began mentoring him. Dr. Koop and many of his peers saw greatness in the young doctor from Huntington and predicted that Paul was destined to become, among other things, the youngest surgeon general in our nation’s history. He was born Paul Wesley Ambrose on Dec. The second child of Ken and Sharon Ambrose, he was described by his parents and teachers as inquisitive and extremely outgoing.“He never knew a stranger,” said Sharon, who was the vice president and chief operating officer at St. Mary’s Medical Center when Paul died. He was a very happy child, always smiling with those blue eyes.”His father Ken, a respected professor of sociology at Marshall University, described his son as adventurous and always willing to try new things.“At the age of 5, Paul climbed the ladder at a local pool on his own and leapt off the high dive,” Ken said. That, in essence, was Paul.”He played numerous sports growing up, including Little League baseball with his older brother Scott. While Paul continued to love sports throughout his high school years, Scott was drawn to music and eventually formed his own band.“Paul was always so supportive of Scott,” Sharon said. He’d invite his friends over to listen to Scott’s band play.”But in 1. Ambrose family was rocked when, without warning, they lost Scott to a pulmonary embolism. Scott, who was just 3. Paul was there for us through that whole experience,” Sharon recalled. He was so concerned about us and about Scott’s family. From that point on, Paul made a point to always let us know where he was and how he was doing.”After graduating from Barboursville High School, where he was class president, Paul enrolled at Marshall University. He graduated magna cum laude in 1. Spanish. Following his junior year, Paul applied for early admission to Marshall University’s School of Medicine and was accepted. He quickly formed a strong bond with one of his professors, Dr. Robert Walker, who was a pioneer in providing health care to underserved areas throughout rural Appalachia.“I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like Paul’s combination of personality, concern for positive events and dedication to being a physician,” said Dr. Walker, chairman of the Department of Family and Community Health at the time. It’s every teacher’s greatest dream to have a student who gets it – and sometimes they get it even better than you give it. That was Paul. He was so excited about what he was doing, so in love with what he was doing, that he made you feel good just to be around him.”During medical school, Paul asked for and was given permission to spend a year at the University of Salamanca in Spain, where he studied the country’s health care system. Parking is limited at this prime spot near the Lake View Picnic. in a league or have completed one or more sessions of Lil. Drums *Piano *Voice *Violin.He remains the only student to ever study abroad while attending medical school at Marshall. The experience was invaluable to Paul as he absorbed the new culture and learned to speak the language fluently; it left him with a love for Spanish culture and a passion for its people. As many of his teachers would later say, Paul was not a typical student. He possessed a think- outside- the- box approach to both his life and his schooling.“From the beginning, Paul was interested in the larger picture,” recalled his father Ken. He was interested in public health and health care policy. He wanted to improve the conditions for the larger population as well as for the individual patient.”Upon graduating from medical school in 1. Paul forged his own path once again when he elected to forego his residency and instead work for a year as the national director of legislative affairs for the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) in Washington, D. C. As part of his job, he worked on bills that fostered reform in the health care industry. After his year working in Washington, Paul began his residency at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N. H. It was there that he caught the attention of Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U. S. surgeon general and Dartmouth faculty member. Dr. Koop was impressed with the young man’s intelligence, energy and passion to ameliorate health care in America.“His career, like my own, was in public health, which led to my becoming his mentor,” Dr. Koop explained. “Paul had the ability to put as much effort into four or five projects simultaneously with as much zeal as you and I would put into one. He was sensitive, self- giving, the very model of what a physician should be to his patients.”While at Dartmouth, Paul was appointed by the secretary of Health and Human Services to serve as the only resident on the congressional advisory committee of the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME).“I recall a shining, articulate and intelligent young man whose insight and remarks competed brilliantly with other members of the committee more senior in years,” noted Dr. Vincent C. Rogers, who served on the committee with Paul. I confess I looked upon him with admiration, envy even, as I contemplated his potential.”Yet, no matter how busy Paul was, he always made time for fitness in his life. He enjoyed running, weight training and tae kwon do while at Marshall. At Dartmouth, he took up skiing and snowboarding. He began rock climbing during his time in Washington, D. C. Both his mind and body were always in tune and operating at full capacity. After completing his residency and at the urging of Dr. Koop, Paul applied for and was awarded a fellowship at Harvard University in the School of Public Health. While there, he studied the cancer treatment of women in rural West Virginia as one of his projects. He graduated from Harvard in 2. REVIEW: ALL ABOUT JAZZ - NEW YORK - 2. Saxophone. ALLABOUTJAZZ- NEW YORK|March 2. We have a new word to add to our collective lexicon: ‘stimulus package’. Thefinancial service sector got one, then the auto makers. Other industries are liningup for their slice of our pie in a time of almost unprecedented economic turmoil. Well, the next idea is obvious, isn’t it? What needs economic stimulatingmore than jazz? Producer Quincy Jones has floated the idea of asking President. Obama to create a cabinet level Secretary of the Arts position. That’s fine but let’sback up that with some cash! And we can bet that the jazz community will behappy with a lot less - let’s say a measly $1. Extrapolating from a 2. National Endowment for the Arts Study, let’s say there are 1. Weknow that could help. But until that package gets approved by Congress, we’ll soldier on as wehave, underappreciated and underfunded, for decades. Take it from guys like Phil. Woods (On The Cover, at Dizzy’s Club this month), Odean Pope (Interview, at. Blue Note with his Saxophone Choir) and Herb Robertson (Artist Profile,appearing at venues across town). And let’s hope the economic slowdowndoesn’t affect the work of Japanese imprint Venus (Label Profile) or Alphabet Cityvenue Nublu (Club Profile). Disposable income is down and people can barely afford the shirts they’llprobably lose tomorrow. But in times like this, take some solace in culture andsupport a jazz musician. They’ve been in a recession for decades and have keptgoing regardless. Peruse our CD reviews and buy some music or take a gander atour Event Calendar and plan some outings this month; hey, take advantage ofsomeone’s else’s heating bill, why don’t you? Spring is coming soon and hopefully things will look up. Until then, fill upon a bountiful and renewable resource: jazz. We’ll be in line with you.. On the cover: Phil Woods(Photograph © 2. Jack Vartoogian/Front. Row. Photos)Corrections: In last issue’s Lest We Forget, JRMonterose actually did not live in the. Quad- Cities. He lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In the CD Reviews, Jason Robinson’s. Circumvention Music label was referred to incorrectly as new. It has been inexistence since 1. Submit Letters to the Editor at newyork. U. S. Subscription rates: 1. International: 1. For subscription assistance, send check, cash or money order to the address below. Laurence Donohue- Greene, Managing Editor Andrey Henkin,Editorial Director New York@Night. Interview: Odean Popeby Elliott Simon. 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