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On Sunday, March 31, 1996, Dr. James Kiffin Penry (Figure 1) died at his home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is survived by his wife, Sarah Doub Penry; two sons, Martin Doub Penry and Denny Kiffin Penry; a daughter, Edith Catherine Penry; one granddaughter, Caitlin Quinn Penry; a sister, Edith Morris; and two brothers, William Gaston Penry and Larry Allen Penry. He was preceded in death by a son, Richard Lee Penry.
Figure 1. James Kiffin Penry, MD
Kiffin Penry was a native of his beloved North Carolina and was the class valedictorian of Denton High School near Winston-Salem. He graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest College in 1951 and completed his medical studies at The Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1995. After an internship at The Pennsylvania Hospital he began his residency in neurology at North Carolina Baptist Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Richard Masland. In the middle of his residency Dr. Penry moved to Boston City Hospital where he finished his training with Dr. Derek Denny-Brown, one of several pioneers who influenced his professional life.
Following his residency Dr. Penry joined the U.S. Air Force, where he concentrated on clinical medicine until 1966. It was in this year that he was called by Dr. Masland, then Director of NINDB, NIH, to create an extramural program in epilepsy research in Bethesda. Beginning with only a …
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