52 OregonStater.org OuR COMMuNIty PHOTO BY KARL MAASDAM, ’93 A TALE OF TWO CITIES How one alumnus has teamed with a Ukrainian surgeon to save lives. BY > SEAN FLEMING, M.S. ’97, M.S. ’98 If there’s a third world war, the invasion of Ukraine, the first large-scale European war since 1945, gives us one possible preview of its horrifically inventive diversity of injuries, inflicted by everything from artillery along a 600-mile front line, to hypersonic cruise missiles fired from a thousand miles away, to new frontiers in drone warfare. A Ukrainian surgeon at a hospital in an obscure corner of the war-torn nation is often the last, best hope for wounded soldiers — and he often leans on the steadfast support of Corvallis doctor and 1972 OSU engineering graduate Dr. Mark Rampton. I am proud to call Dr. Rampton my friend. He is a Beaver by birth. His father, Henry, M.S. ’33, was on the Farm Crops faculty, and his mother, Dorothea, ’31, worked for the Dean of Women, Jo Anne Trow. He grew up one block from Gilbert Hall. His degree was an unusual pre-med choice, but he loved the engineering program. “They prepared me for just about any future profession, as engineering has that classic problem- solving mentality,” he says. Rampton credits his senior project, a prototype hydraulic lift for ↑ Dr. Mark Rampton at his clinic in Corvallis.
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