"You can either go through life just getting along, or you can accomplish as much as you can. I felt it was a waste of life to do anything less than the latter.” Those are words Dr. Alden Brooks Ranney lived by. Ranney was one of a group of several doctors who, after returning from World War II, settled in Yankton providing world-class medical care to the region. In 1948, at the invitation of Dr. Theodore H.