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Excerpt from Penn State Hazleton Insight Outlook Alumni Magazine At the end of the Korean War, as one young doctor administered aid to the last of the injured soldiers, an Associated Press photographer captured the moment in a photo that was published in newspapers around the world, and which now sits faded and brown-edged on the mantle of the home of that good doctor, Stanley Yamulla. Yamulla began his college education at Penn State Hazleton. A pre-medicine major, he graduated from University Park in 1941 and went on to medical school at Hahnemann Medical College. He joined the Navy and was thrust into accelerated medical training which included first-hand experience treating wounded soldiers returning from the battlefields of the Pacific. Soon upon the close of World War II, the Korean War would call this battlefield surgeon back to duty once again. Yamulla returned home and was accepted into Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, for his second year of surgical residency at the university's famous School of Medicine. The good doctor could have established a successful practice anywhere in the world, but his love for home and family brought him back to Hazleton, Pennsylvania where he spent the rest of his medical. Yamulla is what Tom Brokaw would refer to as a member of the greatest generation. Now as he approaches his 90th birthday, we acknowledge this good doctor, our alumnus, for his service to country and his hometown. Dr. Stanley Yamulla lives with his wife Grace in Hazleton Pennsylvania.