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Granville C. Coggs

November 10, 2023

Granville C. Coggs (July 30, 1925 – May 6, 2019) was an American medical doctor, radiologist, U.S. Army Air Force/U.S. Air Force/U.S. Air Force Reserves officer, and trained bombardier pilot with the 477th Bombardment Group attached to the famed Tuskegee Airmen.[1] He was one of the 1007 documented Tuskegee Airmen Pilots.[2]

Granville C. Coggs
Born
Granville Coleridge Coggs

July 30, 1925
Pine Bluff, AR, US
DiedMay 6, 2019(2019-05-06) (aged 93)
San Antonio, Texas, US
Resting placeFort Sam Houston National Cemetery
Alma materArkansas Baptist College, Tuskegee Institute, University of Nebraska, Harvard Medical School
Occupations
  • Military officer
  • fighter pilot
  • medical doctor
  • musician
  • track athlete
Years active1943-1985

In 1959, Coggs was the first African American to serve as a staff physician at the Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco, California.[3] In 1972, he became the first African American to lead University of California at San Francisco's Ultrasound Radiology Division.[4]

Early life and family edit

Coggs was born July 30, 1925, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The grandson of enslaved African Americans, Coggs was the youngest of five siblings. He was the son of Dr. Tandy Washington Coggs, an educator, and Nannie Hinkle Coggs, a teacher.[5][6] Tandy served as the First Superintendent of the now-defunct Arkansas Negro Boys' Industrial School, a juvenile correctional facility for African American male youth in Arkansas.[7]

In 1937, Tandy moved his family from Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Little Rock, Arkansas in Pulaski County to serve as President of Arkansas Baptist College, a position he held until 1955.[8][9] Coggs transferred to Dunbar High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, graduating in 1942.[10][11] Though he took some classes at his father's Arkansas Baptist College, Coggs enrolled at Howard University in Fall 1943.[12]

Military career edit

On December 18, 1943, Coggs enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force as a Private at Camp Robertson in Little Rock, Arkansas December 18.[13]

The U.S. Army Air Force stationed Coggs at Keesler Air Force Base near racially segregated Biloxi, Mississippi for six weeks. After training, Coggs was transferred to Tuskegee Institute for college training. Coggs' aptitude test qualified him to train as a flying officer, bombardier, navigator or pilot. After training at Tyndall Field in Florida for Aerial Gunnery Training, he served as an aerial gunner, aerial bombardier, multi-engine pilot, and B-25 pilot trainee with the 477th Bombardment group.[14]

In January 1945, Coggs received a commission as a second lieutenant.[15] On October 16, 1945, Coggs graduated from Cadet Class TE-45-G, Twin Engine Section, receiving a commission as 2nd lieutenant bombardier pilot[16][17] He received bombardier training at Midland Army Airfield in Midland, Texas, and served as a weather observer at Tuskegee Institute until he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army Air Corps Fall 1946.[18] The 477th Bombardment group did not engage in combat during World War II, which ended before Coggs completed training.[19]

In 1985, Coggs retired from the U.S. Air Force Medical Reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel.[20]

Post-military education edit

In June 1949, Coggs graduated with a bachelor's degree with distinction from the University of Nebraska. He finished within three years and in the top 3% of his senior class. At the time, Coggs' 91.65 academic average was the highest average ever achieved by an African American student at the University of Nebraska. Coggs was elected to several honor societies including Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, the Honorary Chemistry Society, and Theta Nu Honorary Pre-Medical Fraternity.[21]

Coggs was a Spring 1948 initiate of the Eta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at the University of Nebraska.[22]

In 1949, Coggs enrolled at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[23] He was the sole African American in his first-year medical school class. Coggs financed his education with a $500 grant from the GI bill and a $330 scholarship from Harvard Medical School.[24] Coggs applied to several top medical schools. He was accepted to the University of Southern California's medical school which never enrolled an African American medical student prior to Coggs' application. Instead, Coggs selected Harvard University Medical School in honor of his childhood mentor, prominent African American physician George William Stanley Ish (1883–1970), a member of Harvard Medical School's Class of 1909.[25][26] Ish inspired the 1918 founding of the now-defunct J. E. Bush Memorial Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas and the defunct McRae Memorial Tuberculosis Sanatorium for African Americans.[27]

During his tenure in Massachusetts, Coggs shared a residential suite with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was working on his PhD in divinity at Boston University.[28][29]

After graduating with a M.D. from Harvard Medical School in June 1953, Coggs returned to the U.S. Air Force as a Medical Intern.[30]

Medical career edit

Coggs became a radiologist and breast cancer specialist. In 1958, he completed a three-year medical residency in radiology at the University of California, San Francisco.[31] In 1959, Coggs was the first African American to serve as a staff physician at the Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco, California as a full-time Associate Clinical Professor of Radiology.[32][33] In 1972, he became the first African American to lead University of California at San Francisco's Ultrasound Radiology Division.[34][35]

In 1969, Coggs received the National Medical Association's Silver Medal Award for his scientific exhibit, “Non-Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment of Renal Cysts.” His exhibit also received an honorable mention at the 1970 American Medical Association's annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois.[36]

In 1975, Coggs became a tenured professor of radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. In 1983, Coggs founded the San Antonio Breast Evaluation Center, which served as the role model for Breast Cancer Disease Diagnostic Centers across the U.S. he was inventor and patent owner of a non-invasive patented device for Breast Cancer Detection. The device, the portable "precision breast lesion localizer", was designed to precisely position a probe tip relative to a target lesion in a bodily protuberance. Coggs also invented a central x-ray beam guided breast biopsy system attached to a standard mammography machine; the system enhances precise, accurate breast biopsies.[37][38][39]

Dr. Coggs retired in 1989 as professor of radiology at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas.[40][41]

In 1990 he returned to practice as a general radiologist, working at Kaiser Memorial Hospital in Karnes County, Texas from 1994 to 2003. In 2003, Coggs worked as a radiologist at Gonzaba Medical Group in San Antonio.[42] In December 2004, Coggs became a radiologist at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio.[43]

Personal life edit

While at Tuskegee Institute, Coggs met Maud Currie, marrying her on August 20, 1946. The couple had three children: son Granville Currie Coggs (who was killed in a construction accident at age 7), daughter Anita Coggs Rowell, and daughter Carolyn Coggs.

In 1955, the Coggs were the first African American family to integrate the Terra Linda Community of Eichler Homes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Though there was massive resistance to the Coggs move to Terra Linda, residential developer Joseph Eichler supported the Coggs by offering to purchase the homes of any other residents who opposed integration.

Coggs was a musician and vocalist, playing the stringed "Gut Bucket" Bass for the Night Blooming Jazzmen trio. He also played Flute and Piccolo for the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District Non-Marching Band. Coggs sang tenor in Terra Linda's Christ Presbyterian Church Choir and the San Antonio Mastersingers.[44]

Coggs was also multiple event gold medalist in the Senior Olympics at local, regional, state and national levels.[45][46]

At age 81, Coggs attempted to audition for American Idol. Officials informed him he exceeded the age limit by 53 years.[47]

Honors, book edit

  • In 2001, Coggs was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.[48]
  • Coggs was a Fellow with the American College of Radiology (FACR) and a Charter Member of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound.[49]
  • Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. honored Coggs as its Scientist of the Year.[50]
  • In 2007, Coggs received the Congressional Gold Medal as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
  • Coggs attended the January 20, 2009 and January 20, 2013, inaugurations of President Barack Obama.[51]
  • Coggs and his daughter Anita were the authors of "Soaring Inspiration: The Journey of an Original Tuskegee Airman".[52]
  • In honor of Coggs' 90th birthday in 2015, the JBSA-Randolph's 99th Flying Training Squadron retired Coggs' 99th FTS nametag.[53]

Death edit

Coggs died on May 6, 2019, in San Antonio, Texas.[54] Reverend Otis I. Mitchell officiated Cogg's funeral services.[55] Coggs was interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Section 54, Site 653, in San Antonio, Texas in Bexar County, Texas.

See also edit

References edit

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  46. ^ YouTube. "Dr. Granville Coggs Senior Olympics 400 Meter Dash." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoHVeTDQA4E
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  49. ^ Porter Loring Mortuaries. "Obituary for Dr. Granville Coleridge Coggs, July 30, 1925 - May 6, 2019, San Antonio, Texas | Age 93, A True American Hero." http://porterloring.tributes.com/obituary/show/Granville-Coleridge-Coggs-107088845
  50. ^ Porter Loring Mortuaries. "Obituary for Dr. Granville Coleridge Coggs, July 30, 1925 - May 6, 2019, San Antonio, Texas | Age 93, A True American Hero." http://porterloring.tributes.com/obituary/show/Granville-Coleridge-Coggs-107088845
  51. ^ Porter Loring Mortuaries. "Obituary for Dr. Granville Coleridge Coggs, July 30, 1925 - May 6, 2019, San Antonio, Texas | Age 93, A True American Hero." http://porterloring.tributes.com/obituary/show/Granville-Coleridge-Coggs-107088845
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Granville C Coggs July 30 1925 May 6 2019 was an American medical doctor radiologist U S Army Air Force U S Air Force U S Air Force Reserves officer and trained bombardier pilot with the 477th Bombardment Group attached to the famed Tuskegee Airmen 1 He was one of the 1007 documented Tuskegee Airmen Pilots 2 Granville C CoggsBornGranville Coleridge CoggsJuly 30 1925Pine Bluff AR USDiedMay 6 2019 2019 05 06 aged 93 San Antonio Texas USResting placeFort Sam Houston National CemeteryAlma materArkansas Baptist College Tuskegee Institute University of Nebraska Harvard Medical SchoolOccupationsMilitary officerfighter pilotmedical doctormusiciantrack athleteYears active1943 1985In 1959 Coggs was the first African American to serve as a staff physician at the Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco California 3 In 1972 he became the first African American to lead University of California at San Francisco s Ultrasound Radiology Division 4 Contents 1 Early life and family 2 Military career 3 Post military education 4 Medical career 5 Personal life 6 Honors book 7 Death 8 See also 9 ReferencesEarly life and family editCoggs was born July 30 1925 in Pine Bluff Arkansas The grandson of enslaved African Americans Coggs was the youngest of five siblings He was the son of Dr Tandy Washington Coggs an educator and Nannie Hinkle Coggs a teacher 5 6 Tandy served as the First Superintendent of the now defunct Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School a juvenile correctional facility for African American male youth in Arkansas 7 In 1937 Tandy moved his family from Pine Bluff Arkansas to Little Rock Arkansas in Pulaski County to serve as President of Arkansas Baptist College a position he held until 1955 8 9 Coggs transferred to Dunbar High School in Little Rock Arkansas graduating in 1942 10 11 Though he took some classes at his father s Arkansas Baptist College Coggs enrolled at Howard University in Fall 1943 12 Military career editOn December 18 1943 Coggs enlisted in the U S Army Air Force as a Private at Camp Robertson in Little Rock Arkansas December 18 13 The U S Army Air Force stationed Coggs at Keesler Air Force Base near racially segregated Biloxi Mississippi for six weeks After training Coggs was transferred to Tuskegee Institute for college training Coggs aptitude test qualified him to train as a flying officer bombardier navigator or pilot After training at Tyndall Field in Florida for Aerial Gunnery Training he served as an aerial gunner aerial bombardier multi engine pilot and B 25 pilot trainee with the 477th Bombardment group 14 In January 1945 Coggs received a commission as a second lieutenant 15 On October 16 1945 Coggs graduated from Cadet Class TE 45 G Twin Engine Section receiving a commission as 2nd lieutenant bombardier pilot 16 17 He received bombardier training at Midland Army Airfield in Midland Texas and served as a weather observer at Tuskegee Institute until he was honorably discharged from the U S Army Air Corps Fall 1946 18 The 477th Bombardment group did not engage in combat during World War II which ended before Coggs completed training 19 In 1985 Coggs retired from the U S Air Force Medical Reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel 20 Post military education editIn June 1949 Coggs graduated with a bachelor s degree with distinction from the University of Nebraska He finished within three years and in the top 3 of his senior class At the time Coggs 91 65 academic average was the highest average ever achieved by an African American student at the University of Nebraska Coggs was elected to several honor societies including Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi Phi Lambda Upsilon the Honorary Chemistry Society and Theta Nu Honorary Pre Medical Fraternity 21 Coggs was a Spring 1948 initiate of the Eta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at the University of Nebraska 22 In 1949 Coggs enrolled at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge Massachusetts 23 He was the sole African American in his first year medical school class Coggs financed his education with a 500 grant from the GI bill and a 330 scholarship from Harvard Medical School 24 Coggs applied to several top medical schools He was accepted to the University of Southern California s medical school which never enrolled an African American medical student prior to Coggs application Instead Coggs selected Harvard University Medical School in honor of his childhood mentor prominent African American physician George William Stanley Ish 1883 1970 a member of Harvard Medical School s Class of 1909 25 26 Ish inspired the 1918 founding of the now defunct J E Bush Memorial Hospital in Little Rock Arkansas and the defunct McRae Memorial Tuberculosis Sanatorium for African Americans 27 During his tenure in Massachusetts Coggs shared a residential suite with Dr Martin Luther King Jr who was working on his PhD in divinity at Boston University 28 29 After graduating with a M D from Harvard Medical School in June 1953 Coggs returned to the U S Air Force as a Medical Intern 30 Medical career editCoggs became a radiologist and breast cancer specialist In 1958 he completed a three year medical residency in radiology at the University of California San Francisco 31 In 1959 Coggs was the first African American to serve as a staff physician at the Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco California as a full time Associate Clinical Professor of Radiology 32 33 In 1972 he became the first African American to lead University of California at San Francisco s Ultrasound Radiology Division 34 35 In 1969 Coggs received the National Medical Association s Silver Medal Award for his scientific exhibit Non Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment of Renal Cysts His exhibit also received an honorable mention at the 1970 American Medical Association s annual meeting in Chicago Illinois 36 In 1975 Coggs became a tenured professor of radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio Texas In 1983 Coggs founded the San Antonio Breast Evaluation Center which served as the role model for Breast Cancer Disease Diagnostic Centers across the U S he was inventor and patent owner of a non invasive patented device for Breast Cancer Detection The device the portable precision breast lesion localizer was designed to precisely position a probe tip relative to a target lesion in a bodily protuberance Coggs also invented a central x ray beam guided breast biopsy system attached to a standard mammography machine the system enhances precise accurate breast biopsies 37 38 39 Dr Coggs retired in 1989 as professor of radiology at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio Texas 40 41 In 1990 he returned to practice as a general radiologist working at Kaiser Memorial Hospital in Karnes County Texas from 1994 to 2003 In 2003 Coggs worked as a radiologist at Gonzaba Medical Group in San Antonio 42 In December 2004 Coggs became a radiologist at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio 43 Personal life editWhile at Tuskegee Institute Coggs met Maud Currie marrying her on August 20 1946 The couple had three children son Granville Currie Coggs who was killed in a construction accident at age 7 daughter Anita Coggs Rowell and daughter Carolyn Coggs In 1955 the Coggs were the first African American family to integrate the Terra Linda Community of Eichler Homes in the San Francisco Bay Area Though there was massive resistance to the Coggs move to Terra Linda residential developer Joseph Eichler supported the Coggs by offering to purchase the homes of any other residents who opposed integration Coggs was a musician and vocalist playing the stringed Gut Bucket Bass for the Night Blooming Jazzmen trio He also played Flute and Piccolo for the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District Non Marching Band Coggs sang tenor in Terra Linda s Christ Presbyterian Church Choir and the San Antonio Mastersingers 44 Coggs was also multiple event gold medalist in the Senior Olympics at local regional state and national levels 45 46 At age 81 Coggs attempted to audition for American Idol Officials informed him he exceeded the age limit by 53 years 47 Honors book editIn 2001 Coggs was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame 48 Coggs was a Fellow with the American College of Radiology FACR and a Charter Member of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound 49 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc honored Coggs as its Scientist of the Year 50 In 2007 Coggs received the Congressional Gold Medal as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen Coggs attended the January 20 2009 and January 20 2013 inaugurations of President Barack Obama 51 Coggs and his daughter Anita were the authors of Soaring Inspiration The Journey of an Original Tuskegee Airman 52 In honor of Coggs 90th birthday in 2015 the JBSA Randolph s 99th Flying Training Squadron retired Coggs 99th FTS nametag 53 Death editCoggs died on May 6 2019 in San Antonio Texas 54 Reverend Otis I Mitchell officiated Cogg s funeral services 55 Coggs was interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Section 54 Site 653 in San Antonio Texas in Bexar County Texas See also editList of Tuskegee Airmen Cadet Pilot Graduation Classes List of Tuskegee Airmen Military history of African Americans Dogfights TV series Executive Order 9981 The Tuskegee Airmen movie References edit Porter Loring Mortuaries Obituary for Dr Granville Coleridge Coggs July 30 1925 May 6 2019 San Antonio Texas Age 93 A True American Hero http porterloring tributes com obituary show Granville Coleridge Coggs 107088845 Tuskegee Airmen Pilot Roster CAF Rise Above CAF Rise Above Retrieved 11 August 2020 Encyclopedia of Arkansas Granville Coleridge Coggs https encyclopediaofarkansas net entries granville coleridge coggs 4004 Encyclopedia of Arkansas Granville Coleridge Coggs https encyclopediaofarkansas net entries granville coleridge coggs 4004 The Boston Globe Granville Coggs rhythm of life James H Burnett III Globe Staff June 28 2013 https www bostonglobe com lifestyle 2013 06 28 granville coggs rhythm life 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