Anderson Minor Renick, Jr.
Anderson Minor Renick, Jr. graduated from Andrew Lewis High School in 1947. Anderson was active in the Latin and Beta Clubs and was in the Old Dominion Boys State Football League. He served as treasurer of his senior class, and performed in the Annual Follies and the senior play.
Anderson pursued a B.A. and a B.S. at Hampden-Sydney College, where he was secretary and treasurer of his sophomore class, performed in Jongleurs, and was inducted into the Kappa Alpha Order, the Eta Sigma Phi Honor Society for classical studies, and the Chi Beta Phi Honor Society for scientific studies. He went to medical school at the University of Virginia, then did his internship and residency at Union Memorial Hospital, where he was Chief Resident and later Assistant Chief of Medicine.
From 1957-1959, Anderson served in the medical corps of the U.S. Navy and was the Chief Medical Officer at Bainbridge Naval Hospital. He was a USNR in the Medical Corps for another decade, before being discharged in 1969 with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Anderson opened a private practice in Towson, Maryland in internal medicine. He was elected a member of the American College of Physicians in 1971 and a Fellow in 1974. Over the course of his career, Anderson was affiliated with the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, St. Joseph Medical Center, Union Memorial Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Hospital, serving on their Medical Records, Pathology, Risk Management, and Executive Committees.
His other professional affiliations included the Baltimore County Medical Association, the Medical and Chirurgical Society of Maryland, the Southern Medical Society, the American Society of Internal Medicine, and the American Medical Association. Anderson was also an instructor in Gastroenterology and Endocrinology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. An article of his entitled, “Coumadin Induced Skin Necrosis” was published in Southern Medical Journal.
Anderson has remained generous to his alma maters, establishing and funding a scholarship for the Salem Educational Foundation, and funding full scholarships to Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He had made major donations to the Hospice of Baltimore and to his church, and is an annual donor for Shiners’ Children’s Hospitals.
Anderson is an exceptional nature photographer whose work has been exhibited in Baltimore hospitals and specialty shops and featured on the covers of Archives of Internal Medicine and Maryland State Medical Journal. He has been recognized with awards at the Maryland State Fair and at Med Chi Conventions. His photographs have been compiled in the collection Nature Photography and Other Images and may be viewed at his website, www.andersonrenick.net.
Anderson lives in Lutherville, Maryland. He has four children, Karen Renick Kays, Anderson Minor Renick III, Gerald Wiley Renick, and Mark Witten Renick.
In recognition of his outstanding career achievements, Anderson M. Renick, Jr. is inducted into the 2008 Salem Alumni Hall of Fame established by the Salem Educational Foundation and Alumni Association.
