A legacy of care

Born in Armada Mich., the son of an Ann Arbor physician, Sidney Shipman graduated from the University of Michigan in 1917 and from its Medical School in 1919. After interning in New York and California, Dr. Shipman began practicing medicine in San Francisco as a specialist in thoracic medicine and surgery, developing an expertise in tuberculosis and other disease of the chest. He went on to serve as a professor of medicine at the University of California, president of the National Tuberculosis Society and president of the California Medical Society. Retiring in 1967, he and his wife, Irene, lived in a downtown San Francisco apartment building. They became well-known for helping the city’s poor. Dr. Shipman’s first wife, Geneva, was killed in an automobile crash in 1954. Dr. Shipman died in 1981, and Irene Shipman passed away in 1994, leaving the funds to establish the Shipman Scholarship.