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David Ralph
Curfman, M.D.
1942 - 2007
Dr. David Ralph Curfman
was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, the son of Ralph Oliver Curfman
and Agnes Mozelle Schreck Curfman. He was married in
1970 to Blanch Lee Anderson.
He graduated from
Columbia Union College with an A.B.,
majors in Biology and Chemistry, in 1965. He then
attended
George Washington University, where he completed
his M.S. in Neuroanatomy, and completed work toward his
Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy between 1967 and 1970. Dr.
Curfman earned his M.D. degree from
George Washington
University School of Medicine on May 27, 1973. He
also served his general surgery and neurological surgery
residencies there. Dr. Curfman was Chief
of Neurosurgery at Providence Hospital, Assistant Clinical
Professor of Neurological Surgery at George Washington Medical
Center, Senior Attending in Neurosurgery at Washington
Hospital Center, and President of the Washington Academy
of Neurosurgery.
Memberships
* National Gavel Society
* General
Society of Colonial Wars (Washington, D.C. Society
Surgeon;
Samuel Victor Constant Society)
* National Society Americans of Royal Descent
(Councilor)
* Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Chaplain
General)
* Colonial Order of the Acorn
* Saint Andrew's Society of the District of Columbia
* Veteran Corps of Artillery in the State of New York
* General Society of the War of 1812 (Surgeon
General; Deputy President
General)
* Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland
* Order of Indian Wars in the United
States of America (Historian General)
* Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
(Aide-de-Campe,
2nd Commander in Chief)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (2nd
Deputy
Governor General)
* National Society of Sons of
American Colonists (Surgeon General)
*
Sons and Daughters of the
Colonial & Antebellum Bench & Bar
1565-1861
*
Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American
Revolution
* Order of Washington
* General Society Sons of the Revolution (former Chairman
of the
Bicentennial Commemoration Committee of the Death of George
Washington)
* National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
(Board of
Management; Recipient of the Bronze and Silver Good Citizenship and
Meritorious Service Awards)
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
(Chairman of Decoration for the
Memorial Day Historical Observance at Arlington National Cemetery)
* The Pilgrim Society of Plymouth Massachusetts
* National Society Children of the American Revolution
(Honorary Senior
National Vice President; Honorary President of the Ohio Society)
* National Society Children of the American Colonists
(President General)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(Advisory Board
to the President General)
Chivalric
* Officer Companion of the
Order of the Hospitaller of St. John of
Jerusalem
* Knight of Grace of the Military and Hospitaler Order of
St. Lazarus of
Jerusalem
* Knight Grand Croix of the Sovereign Military Order of
the Temple of
Jerusalem (Grand Chirurgeon)
* Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni
Publications
Physicians' Reference Guide - Medicolegal Matters
(chief author),
privately published by the Medical Society of the
District of Columbia,
November, 1982
Listed In
Marquis Who's Who in America
Marquis Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Marquis Who's Who in the East
Marquis Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America
Marquis Who's Who in American Education
Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering
Marquis International Who's Who in Music
Musicians Directory (Cambridge, England)
Other Notes
Dr. Curfman held membership in the following
professional associations: Congress of Neurological
Surgery; American College of Legal Medicine; Washington
Academy of Neurosurgery; Medical Society of the District
of Columbia; Sigma Xi (Science Honorary Society); Phi
Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity; Pan American Medical
Society; and Association of Military Surgeons of the
United States.
In addition, Dr. Curfman was an accomplished musician,
having studied both piano an organ. His life-long
interest in choral music and liturgies involved him in
instruction at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in
Columbus, OH. Dr. Curfman was a frequent lecturer in
Judeo-Christian ceremonies and liturgies. As dean of
the District of Columbia Chapter, American Guild of
Organists, he subsequently served as Washington Program
Chairman of the International Congress of Organists, held
for the first time in the United States in 1977. He
was also a former member of the development committee for the
national office of the American Guild of Organists and a
member of the Royal School of Church Music (England).
He has been an elected trustee of the Board of Cathedral
Choral Society, completed two terms as president, and was
music repertoire planning chairman for the 250 member
chorus for several years. He also served on the
board of the Leo Sowerby Foundation; historian and board
member of the Christmas Pageant of Peace (National
Christmas Tree Lighting by the President); President of
the Board of Directors of the National Columbus
Celebration Association (Washington, D.C.); and a founding
supporting member of the United States Capitol Historical
Society.
Dr. Curfman held membership in the Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. 1191;
was an honorary founder of the Elks National
Foundation; charter member of the Galion Historical
Society; charter member of the Crawford County Ohio Coin
Club; member of the American Political Items Collectors
Association; and Columbus Philatelic Society.
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