Hoyt Barner MILES, M.D. It is with a great deal of sadness we announce the passing of Hoyt B. Miles on October 20, 2009. As a beloved friend, neighbor, and an all around great man, he will be deeply missed. He was 91 years old. Hoyt was born on February 25, 1918 in Joplin, MO. His father, Hoyt Barner Miles, was from an old Vermont family dating back to the American Revolution. His mother Elma Collins Nules was born in Tennessee. In high school Hoyt was interested in music. He began on the piano and later learned to play the flute. He played in two national high school orchestral contests and won first rating both times. Since there had been other physicians in the family, Hoyt's mother asked him during high school if he wanted to pursue a career in music or medicine. After due consideration he noted that all musicians in town were poor and the family doctor had two cars. He told his mother he thought that medicine would be the preferable choice. Hoyt graduated from Central Methodist University in Missouri in 1940 and from Yale University of Medicine in December 1943. During WWII he interned at St. Albans Navy Hospital and served as a young Navy doctor with the 3rd Marine Division on Guam. After the war he was sent to Tsingtao, China to be a Regimental Surgeon with the 4th Marine Regiment, reinforced. After returning home to Los Angeles from China in 1946 he resumed surgical training for five years and then practiced urology. In 1948 he married Luana Wallace, from Hawaii. In Los Angeles he had been a member of the Hollywood Academy of Medicine and the Santa Monica Swimming Club. During his urological practice he published several scientific papers, the first in the Journal of Urology in 1954. Later, during the Cold War years his most memorable scientific publication was a study of venal endometriosis and a report on the fifth case ever known in the world literature of medicine. There were more than one hundred requests for copies of this particular work from Europe, Asia and several other countries behind the Iron Curtain. In 1958 he moved to Reno, Nevada and established a urological practice. Hoyt was a member of the American College of Surgeons. He was also a member and president of the western section of the American Urological Association. In 1979 he hosted the annual meeting at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco. Locally he was a member of the Reno Surgical Society, Prospectors Club and Hidden Valley Country Club. He was also a member of the Pan Pacific Surgical Society and on occasion presented papers in Tokyo and elsewhere in the Pacific. Hoyt and his wife, Luana had a second home in Honolulu where he was a member of the Outrigger Canoe Club for nearly fifty years. He was an avid fly fisherman and fished from New Zealand to Northern Quebec, including several rivers and lakes in the western states, British Columbia, and Western Alaska. Hoyt was an aviation enthusiast and pilot and, over a period of time, flew his own plane, which he used in the earlier years for both business and personal travel. He was a member of the Kerak Shrine and the Royal Order of Jesters. In the early seventies Hoyt was diagnosed with cancer which later resulted in radical surgery in 1975. This brought about an early retirement from his profession, but he was able to continue an active family life for many years. He and Luana visited five continents and made many friends in far away places. They vacationed at their home in Hawaii annually over the years until her death in 1999. Hoyt was also preceded in death by his sister, Jean Miles, who died in 2008. His ability to travel in recent years was somewhat curtailed but he continued to live out his life with close friends and neighbors who cherished him as a beloved friend. He was a kind, smart, and wonderful man who will be missed dearly. Published in Reno Gazette-Journal from November 22 to November 23, 2009