Dr. Arthur Vidrine, former superintendent of Charity hospital and first dean of the Louisiana State university medical school, died Tuesday at 12:15 p. m. in Hotel Dieu. He was 59.
Funeral services will be held in Sacred Heart of Jesus church in his native Ville Platte at a high mass at 10 a. m. Thursday. The Rt. Rev. J. Maurice Bourgeois, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery, with the Ardoin Funeral home of Ville Platte in charge.
Dr. Vidrine was appointed superintendent of Charity hospital, succeeding Dr. W. W. Leake, by Gov. Huey P. Long in 1928. He served in that capacity until 1936. He was a founder of the LSU medical school in New Orleans and became its first dean in 1931.
Later he founded and operated his own hospital in Ville Platte | until his retirement, due to ill health, in 1950.
Dr, Vidrine was a graduate.of LSU and of the Tulane university school of medicine. He was a Rhodes scholar and studied in several hospitals and clinics abroad.
Dr. Vidrine held memberships in the International College of I1 Surgeons, American Medical Association #ftd Louisiana Medical Association. In 1952 he received an honorary degree of doctor of law from LSU.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Kathleen Miazza Vidrine, and a son, Arthur Vidrine Jr., both of Ville Platte; two daughters, Mrs. Winston Fontenot, Lafayette, and Mrs. Billy Hines, Baton Rouge; his mother, Mrs. Doris Brignac Vidrine, and a brother, Henry Vidrine, both of Ville Platte. Also surviving arc two grandchildren.
