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Dr. George Hay, physician and surgeon, son of John B. and Anna Margaret (Suppes) Hay, was born April 6,1880, in Johnstown, Pa. He received his education in the schools of his native city, leaving the senior class of Johnstown High School a few months before graduating, to enter the Citizens' National Bank; but preferring medicine and surgery to finance, he entered in 1899 the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia for four years, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in May, 1903, entering upon the practice of his profession in October of that year in Johnstown, Pa. In the vacation months, during his college course, he attended the surgical service of the Memorial Hospital, assisting Dr. A. N. Wakefield, chief, and his assistant, Dr. J. B. McAneny, thus gaining a year of actual hospital experience before graduation; and has ever since been associated on the surgical staff of that institution.
When a medical student, George Hay was an active member of the rescuing party on Thursday, July 10, 1902, when 114 lives were lost within a few moments, by the explosion of gas in the Klondike district of the Rolling Mill coal mine of the Cambria Steel Company. At this time there were 450 men in the mine, and150 of them were in the Klondike district. As soon as the alarm was sounded, George Hay responded to the call for service from Dr. W. B. Lowman, who was in charge. After helping to resuscitate the rescued men at the Cambria Hospital, he joined the rescuing party with Drs. George W. Wagoner, Statler and others who started on the route to reach the stricken men. They remained in the mines for 16 hours in search of those who might yet be living.
Dr. George Hay for eight years, from 1906 to 1914, was health officer and city physician, and also physician in charge of the Municipal Hospital for Contagious Diseases of the city of Johnstown, Pa. He is an assistant surgeon to the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital staff of Johnstown and also a lecturer in the Training School for Nurses in this same institution. He is a member of the board of incorporators of the Memorial Hospital, and is examining physician to the Lorain Steel Company of Johnstown, since April, 1915. He is a member of the advisory board and a member of the medical and surgical staff of the Christian Home. In 1914 he took a post-graduate course in surgery at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
Dr. George Hay, chief of medical staff of the Y.M.C.A., has for several years been most active in Y.M.C.A. service. The doctor has
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