Houston Chronicle, July 3, 2007 Dr. Felix McGivney, a Galveston native who switched careers from journalism to medicine and who served as Montgomery County's health commissioner, has died. He was 88. McGivney was associated with the Sadler Clinic in Conroe, and was a staff physician at the Texas State School and Sam Houston State University Health Center. He was born in Galveston on Jan. 11, 1919. After graduating from Ball High School, he enrolled at the University of Texas. He was a reporter for the Daily Texan and was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. He graduated and became a certified teacher, and when he enlisted in the U.S Air Force, he was assigned to Ellington Field near Houston as an instructor during World War II. After the war, he worked for the Galveston Daily News before deciding to go to college to become a doctor. He graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1955 as a specialist in internal medicine.