"John -Lawrence-Sullivan-Hollman (November 22,1919-2002)

He was born in Washington,D.C.,the son of the Rev.John L.S.Hollman and Rosa V.Jones Hollman.The elder Hollman was minister of the Second Baptist Church there for more than 40 years.Young John attended the John F.Cook Elementary School,the Shaw Junior High School and graduated from the Dunbar High School in Washington in 1936.He received the B.S.cum laude from Virginia Union University,Richmond,Virginia,in 1940,majoring in biochemistry.In 1943 he was awarded the M.D. by the University of Michigan Dr.Hollman married Charlotte H.Wesley on September 16,1944.Their daughter,Charlotte Wesley Hollman graduated from the College of Liberal Arts of Howard University.

After an internship in Harlem Hospital,New York,Dr.Hollman served two years in the Medical Corps of the US Army,ending with rankof Captain.He served in Carlisle Pennsylvania,Fort Huachuca Arizona,and Fort Dix,New Jersey.After the Army,Dr.Hollman took a six-month postgraduate course in internal medicine during a part which he was an admitting physician at Bellevue Hospital.He returned to Harlem Hospital for the year 1946-47,as chef resident in medicine.In 1948 he entered private practice in New York.

In the Medical Society of the County of  New York Dr.Holloman served on the Continuing Committee Against Discrimination and the Committee on Legislation.He was a member of the New York state Medical Society,the American Medical Association,the Manhattan Central Medical Society,the American Geriatric Society and the Association of Military Surgeons.Dr.Hollman was a member of the Board of Trustees of Virginia Union University for about 10 years and its president for four years.He was temporary chairman of the defunct Medical Committee for Civil Rights in 1963-64 and was chairman of the Medical Committee Rights until 1966.