Judith Sensenbrenner
MILLHALL — The Keystone Central Foundation Alumni and Friends Association is pleased to introduce each inductee to the Class of 2024 Keystone Central Hall of Fame.
The inductees will be recognized at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 30 at 5:30 pm at Central Hills High School. The ceremony will also honor Keystone Central Foundation’s Friends of the Foundation Giving Society and key community partners.
Judith Laubscher
Sensenbrenner
BEN Class 1959
Judy Sensenbrenner’s path to becoming a doctor began with a casual conversation when she was in seventh grade at the old Mill Hall High School in Fishing Creek. A student teacher at Lock Haven State College asked her if she would play Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for him during lunch, then asked her what she planned to study after high school. Judy replied, “I would probably be a nurse, like my mother.”; The student teacher replied, “I’ve seen your grades. You should be a doctor! Judy has never heard of women. Doctor, she knew that even in the local area, her family had to sacrifice for tuition. The trainee teacher replied: “With your grades, you can get a scholarship!” ” That young man opened Judy’s eyes to an exciting future. What a wonderful example of a teacher’s ability to shape and encourage students!
Judy is a diligent student and an excellent musician. She sang in band, played clarinet, and piano and organ—usually at school events, such as bachelor’s degrees and graduation ceremonies. She learned to multitask—watching TV and doing homework at the same time. She participated in the first science fairs at Penn State and Bucknell University after Russia launched Sputnik in 1957, which promoted science education in our country’s high schools. Bald Eagle-Nittany math teacher Jess Long is her most supportive and challenging teacher. She was the only female in BEN’s advanced mathematics class and graduated as BEN’s valedictorian in 1959.
Judy continued her education at Bucknell University in Fort Lewis, close to home, where she majored in biology. She excelled and qualified for two summers of special projects in genetic research at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. It was there that she learned to sail. (She is now a licensed boat captain on the Chesapeake Bay.) Some of Bucknell’s college years were spent studying and doing the usual biology tasks to earn the scholarship money needed to pay for college. Additional funds. In 1963, Judy graduated second in her class from Bucknell University with a bachelor’s degree in biology and earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Liabilities.
The next year, Judy entered Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where there were 73 students, including only 5 women, and received her MD in 1967. Attachment to Baltimore City Hospital for Internship and Residency. She is the author or co-author of numerous medical publications, including the first description of a rare genetic disorder with multiple abnormalities in two young siblings, now known as the Sensenbrenner syndrome disease. The human genome had not been sequenced at the time, but it is now known that changes in at least two different recessive genes cause bone, kidney, brain and growth abnormalities.
Judy married Lyle Sensenbrenner, associate professor of medicine and oncology at Hopkins, who was involved in some of the earliest unrelated bone marrow transplants, on July 6, 1966. and was a founding member of the International Society of Experimental Hematology, which initiated their research. He elucidated that aplastic anemia was an autoimmune phenomenon and discovered the first treatment with cyclophosphamide, which remains the current treatment for the disease. During this time, Judy sang with the Baltimore Symphony Chorus for 12 years and even performed in a production at New York’s Carnegie Hall. She provides pediatric care to the Baltimore City and County Health Department and Harford County, Maryland.
They moved to Detroit, Miss., when Lyle was recruited to start Michigan’s first unrelated bone marrow transplant program at Wayne State University. Judy earned her Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan and worked with Wayne State University architects for several years to help develop the physical plans for their new cancer center.
Judy was recruited back to Maryland and spent the last 16 years of her career as director of the Wicomico County Health Department in Salisbury on Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore, a busy job with approximately 250 employees across multiple departments: Environmental Health, Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning, Infectious Diseases, Mental Health, Addictions, Dental, Infectious Diseases, Emergency Preparedness, Preventive Health and Medical Assistance Transportation, which requires collaboration with schools, colleges, There are many partnerships with businesses and other community organizations such as prisons. Lyle was recruited back to Baltimore to open the University of Maryland Stem Cell Transplantation Center and then joined the oncology program in Salisbury with Judy for a few years before they both retired from medical practice and moved across the Severn River to Maryland Arnold hails from the Annapolis Rivers where they continued to enjoy their lifelong passion for travel and sailing/boating. Their eldest son, Ted, is the director of development for the Boat US Foundation, and their youngest son, Eric, is the head of the global tax group at the law firm Skadden Arps in Washington, DC. License, is an athlete and scholar, has a 13-year-old grandson, and loves music, computers, and basketball.
A complete tribute to all inductees can be found at kcfoundation.com. Other Class of 2024 recipients include: Alison Bechdel, Martha Sykes, Michael K. Hanna, Sr., and Dr. Sue Kodad-Rex.
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