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William V. Lumb, DVM, ’57 PhD, Fort Collins, Colo., died Feb. 3, 2018 at age 96. Lumb received his DVM from Kansas State University in 1943 and his PhD from CVM in 1957. He taught small animal surgery and medicine at Colorado State University and taught in the small animal clinic and did research at Michigan State University. In 1963, Bill was made Director of the Surgical Laboratory at Colorado State, where he developed a graduate teaching and research program in surgery and anesthesiology. He was a Past President and Founding Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and a Founding Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists. Lumb was the recipient of The ACVS Founders’ Award for Career Achievement. He was an External Examiner at the faculty of veterinary medicine in Kabete, Kenya, and a consultant to the faculties of veterinary Medicine in Libya and the Sudan. He held the first patent for a complete prosthetic vertebra and a second for spinal plates. Lumb is survived by his wife, Lilly; 1 child; and 2 grandchildren.