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As editor-in-chief of JVME, like most who know about the AAVMC Iverson Bell Award and Symposia, I believed that I knew the story of the man being honored. I knew that he was a veterinarian, one of the few of his race in veterinary practice at the time, and his leadership in the profession was documented by having served as Vice President of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). In preparing for this issue that highlights Dr. Iverson Bell and those of like mind interested in increasing minority participation in the veterinary profession, I elected out of personal interest to see what new information I could find about his life. Through the miracle of the Internet, I found the name Iverson Charles Bell listed many times. The name that appeared again and again in my search was that of a physician psychiatrist living in Atlanta, Iverson Charles Bell, MD. This led me to wonder if this could be a relative because ‘‘How many Iverson C. Bells can there be who are not related?’’ One Sunday afternoon, I took the chance and called this ‘‘new Iverson Bell’’ and wonder faded to awe when I discovered that Iverson C. Bell, Jr., MD, was in fact the son of ‘‘our’’ Iverson Bell. Several unforgettable conversations yielded much personal information about the man that we honor, which complemented the facts we already had. Yes, he lived up to the facts, but he was much more: loving husband and father, mentor to neighborhood children, civic leader, and professional leader, self-sufficient and self-assured. AAVMC chose well in honoring this man who faced down racial bias that fortunately few experience today. It is a privilege to know Dr. Bell’s son who filled in the personal side of ‘‘our’’ honoree in the paper titled The Live and Times of Iverson C. Bell, Sr., DVM. Thank you Drs. Iverson C. Bell, both of you.

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