Dr. Edward H. Hashinger MD, 33°
(Oct 12, 1891-Jul 4, 1970)
Member, Rural Lodge #316

1919 - 32° Consistory of Western MO, Kansas City
1928 - Commander, DeMolai Council of Kadosh
1929 - Knight Commander of the Court of Honour
1934 - Venerable Master, Adoniram Lodge of Perfection
1936 - Master of Kadosh of the Consistory
1937 - Coroneted 33° Inspector General Honorary
1947 - Wise Master, Areopagus Chapter of Rose Croix

Occupation: Physician, University of Kansas Medical Center, Professor of Internal Medicine - University of Missouri, Kansas City, former Dean of Medicine at KC Medical Center.
Alumnus: Univeristy of Kansas
Recommended: AA Dunton Jr., George Hashinger
Interred: Mt Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, MO

Edward H. Hashinger MD, 33°
Colonel Practitioner
KU Med Center personnel served in preparation for WWII on a totally volunteer basis to create the US Army’s 77th Evacuation Hospital. To serve as the nascent unit’s peacetime director, his KU Med colleagues chose Dr. Edward Hagerman Hashinger, a professor of medicine and World War I veteran, who would also head the evacuation hospital’s medical section. A longtime resident of Kansas City and University of Kansas alum, Hashinger would later be commissioned a US Army lieutenant colonel in the 77th. He did not, however, serve out the entire war with his KU unit. In 1943, Hashinger was reassigned stateside and named chief of medical services at Cleveland’s Crile General Hospital. He was ultimately discharged in 1945 as a full colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps.

In 1945 Dr. Hashinger was appointed chair to the newly formed Department of Postgraduate Medical Education. Among the first programs to be developed in this department were the Circuit Courses, which were designated to bring medical education to doctors in small rural communities throughout Kansas.