Henderson Daily News, May 8, 2007 HENDERSON - Growing up in the outskirts of Houston, Springfield said he was fascinated by biology at an early age - an intrigue that led him to become one of the Henderson area's most well-respected family physicians. Springfield recently retired from his 46-year career as a family practitioner in Henderson and took some time to recount his more memorable experiences with the Henderson Daily News. Although his fascination with biology and science was strong as a young man, Springfield said he didn't immediately decide on the medical profession after finishing high school. "I had always been interested in biology," he said. "But when I graduated high school, I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do, so I became an engineer." Springfield received his civil engineering degree from Texas A&M University in College Station and immediately found a position with Humble Oil Co. "I worked at that for a short time and then went to Korea," he said. It was while serving in the Ordnance Corps, a combat service support branch of the U.S. Army during the Korean War, that the idea of moving into the medical profession surfaced, his wife Arlene Springfield said. "He wrote me one day and said ‘I think I want to go into medicine'," she said. "I decided that I would really like to become a physician and went and visited Galveston," he said. Years later, Springfield earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, then completed a medical internship at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Houston, specializing in family practice.