Dale Flickinger Jr., former clinical professor of surgery at the UND?SMHS, passed away May 5 at his home in Minot.

Dale was born January 4, 1928, in New York City to Dale and Vera (Campbell) Flickinger. He spent his childhood in Toledo, Ohio. He attended Purdue University for one year before entering the service in 1946. He earned the rank of sergeant as a rawinsonde operator tech. He received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry at the University of Toledo in Ohio, and was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He then went on to earn a medical degree at Ohio State University on the G.I. Bill. He met and fell in love with Zoanne Bishop there, and they married in 1952.

He served his internship at Harvard Surgical Service, and did his residency at Boston City Hospital, including a research fellowship in surgery at Harvard Medical School, where he was chief resident in 1959–1960. He was certified by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.