The following are excerpted from TCA Journal of Chiropractic remembering Dr. Biser.
Dr. Biser was editor Emeritus of the TCA Journal, so I realize the extreme importance of getting this information to you. He also held Texas Chiropractic License Number 2 which is a very important part of our chiropractic history in Texas. Until his death he was the only living member left of the original Chiropractic Board. His license was active until his death. He practiced in his office until just a short time before his death, sixty four years in all.
He was greatly respected and loved by so many. Dr. Stephanie McCubbin, served as Associate Editor of the Texas Chiropractic so it of course was a family affair putting the Texas Chiropractor out monthly with Lena Biser’s helping input and guiding directions. The lights burned late in Dr Biser’s office during pre-publication time for the magazine.
It was all done right there in his office under his wise knowledge and astute directions. He was a product of the old field of journalism and finally the Texas Chiropractor would be ready for printing. Lena Biser is a very experienced typist and the sound of her typewriter always was a big part of getting the magazine out, especially since much of this was before electric typewriters. He will be sorely missed. – Curtis S. McCubbin, D.C.
I have known Dr. Biser since 1964 when I first joined the state association. He was quietly aggressive in projects and considerate of the people he dealt with. His whole life was associated with chiropractic (his mother was also a chiropractor) and its efforts to be accepted as a recognized health profession. Thank you Dr. Devere! – Charles F. Downing, D.C.
Devere was always a gentlemen, carried himself with dignity, was kind and gentle with others and greatly loved by his patients and colleagues. After graduation, I went to Dallas to take my Board exams. We were all in a large room setting row by row, in school desks, writing the exam. Those were the days that you took a two-day exam and wrote the answers out. There were no National Boards or other time-saving methods. Devere was giving the test and he would walk from student to student and look over our shoulders to see what we were writing. He stopped at my shoulder and said “the answer to test question number 19 needs to be looked at again” and he walked off to the next student. I had the wrong answer.
He would always come back to each student to check to see what was written before we turned them in. In those days the attitude was to help, in any way possible, the new doctors of chiropractic get their licenses short of giving them the test in advance. Devere wanted wanted everyone to pass and get to helping people. Still there were those who didn’t make it.
I remember his gentle easy way of helping a new, scared and nervous young chiropractor get through the ordeal and get on with life. – John L. Martin, D.C.
