we had to play and march at half-time, the game was exciting, and I never could get away for a nature
call. We were warned repeatedly, "Get to the bus immediately after the game for the one hour ride
home, or the bus will leave without you", said the new straight-laced band conductor. As we were
leaving the stadium, I grabbed the conductor's shoulder and said, "Please don't leave without me,
but if I don't find a john before we leave and take a piss, my bladder will rupture all over the bus."
His unforgettable response: "Your use of profanity to a respected faculty member has just earned
you a U, and a low grade for the semester. Perhaps you should consider leaving the band
altogether".
Arthur B. Simon, M.D.

Art Simon's Life Since U. City:

Our family moved during my junior year, so I didn't graduate with you. However, I have always had
special feelings of belonging and nostalgia toward U. City and my classmates there not shared with
my official alma mater, Hyde Park High School in Chicago.

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I stayed in Chicago throughout college and medical school and married my one and only as I was
completing my internal medicine residency. Judy was a high school teacher and guidance counselor.
Following a career-defining stint in the Public Health Service/National Institutes of Health, I did a
Cardiology fellowship at Duke and took a faculty position at the University of Michigan where I
continued my research and clinical care interests in cardiac epidemiology and electrophysiology, tried
to teach medical students to listen their patient's complaints before ordering lots of tests, and ran the
pacemaker clinic there.

We moved to Cincinnati in 1979, and I crossed over into administration and training of personnel for critical
care units. I concentrated my clinical activities on the management of cardiac arrest survivors and
arrhythmias in general, ultimately joining a 12 physician single specialty group.