prgclb@ihuxm.UUCP (09/26/83)
One title issue my wife and I are trying to plan for in advance -- When she earns her doctorate, how do people address us? As "Dr. and Mr. Karen Smith Blesch"? Carl Blesch AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, Ill. IH 2A-159, (312) 979-3360 . . .!ihnp4!ihuxm!prgclb
mag@whuxlb.UUCP (Gray mike) (09/27/83)
The common form to use when both husband and wife are physicians, is: The Doctors John and Mary Jones or The Doctors John Jones and Mary Smith Mike Gray, BTL, WH
rab@cdcvax.UUCP (Roger Bielefeld) (09/28/83)
This may be a little off the subject, but... A friend of mine tells a story about a gathering of faculty and graduate students at the beginning of a new school year. Introductions were to be made, etc. One faculty member, after hearing all the other faculty members introduce themselves as Dr. So-and-so, followed his first-name and last-name introduction with "... and don't call me "doctor" or I'm liable to tell you to bend over."
preece@uicsl.UUCP (09/30/83)
#R:ihuxm:-57200:uicsl:16400024:000:278 uicsl!preece Sep 30 00:54:00 1983 Robert M. Hutchins, who was president of the University of Chicago a number of years ago (he had the good taste to pull out of the Big Ten) used to make it a practice to address everyone around the place, right down to the janitors, as 'Doctor.' That avoided the whole problem.