Hall of Honor Recipient
Dr. John Sunderbruch
Class of 1931
Inducted in 1989
“All I ever wanted to be was a doctor,” says Dr. John Sunderbruch, the dean of Davenport physicians. Nearing 80, he has no intentions of retiring. He established Davenport’s first neighborhood clinic, and despite the hectic life of a general practitioner, found time to serve his city. He has been president of CASI, the Assumption School Board and co-chairman of a school financial drive that eventually saw an auditorium named in his honor. He was president of the Friendly House, the Chamber of Commerce, and once even ran for mayor of Davenport.
His philosophy is: “If you can’t make the world better than it was when you came in, what’s the use of living?” He has delivered enough babies to populate a small city.
Particularly he remembers performing Davenport’s first open-heart surgery back in 1949 when the procedure was almost unknown. It was an emergency and he had never done it before-and the woman, believed to be dead, lived another 35 years.
Dr. Sunderbruch lives in Davenport.
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