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THEY HELPED OPEN D(y/C£ - Some of the first staff members of Duke Hospital got together for this photo on July 19,1930, two
days before the Hospital opened. They are, left to right, first row: Dr. Rowland Bellows, Mrs. Elsie W. Martin, Mrs. Carrie Sykes, Miss
Bessie Baker, Miss Winifred Patrick, Miss Augusta Laxton,and Dr. Frank H. Swett. Second row: Dr.WattW. Eagle, Dr. Edwin P. Alyea,
Dr. Wiley D. Forbus, Miss Marion Batchelder, Miss Floyd, Miss Gertrude Nelson, Mrs. Nancy Lawlor, Miss Marry H. Muller, and Dr.
Harold L. Amoss. Third row: Dr. Keitt H. Smith, Dr. W. A. Perlzweig, Dr. Max O. Oates, Dr. Edith C. Robinson, Dr. Oscar C.
Hansen-Pruss, and Dr. Christopher Johnston. Last two rows: Dr. Clarence E. Gardner, Jr., Dr. Louis B. Ziv, Dr. Robert R. Jones, Jr., Dr,
Frederick M. Reese, Dr. Thomas P. Magill, Dr. Erie B. Craven, Jr., Dr. Needham E. Ward, Jr., Dr. W. C. Davison, Dr. Haywood M. Taylor,
Dr. Deryl Hart, and Dr. Robert J. Reeves.
THE FORMAL DEDICA TION—These men participated in the dedication of the Duke
University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital on April 20, 1931. From left to right
were President Thurman D, Kitchin of Wake Forest College, President William Preston
Few of Duke University, Dean Elbert Russell of the Duke Divinity School, Dr. W. C.
Davison, dean of the new Duke Medical School, Director Lewis Hill Weed of the Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine, Dean Davis Linn Ed sail of the Harvard University School of
Medicine, and Dr. William Welch of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Not
pictured were Dr. Watson S. Rankin, George G. Allen, and John F. Bruton.
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