Emory University - Campus Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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.asf T' lmuul Dr Wllllam Si'Elk1n Dr Elkin was born in Lancater Kentucky April 26 1858. Having completed his preliminary education in the schools of that city he entered Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, where he graduated A. B. in 1879. He then entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1882 in the first class to take the three years' course. The same year Dr. Elkin came to Atlanta to take up the practice of his profession. From the very beginning his work was conspicuously successful as it has been all through his life. His-thorough training, sound judgment,,untiring industry, and remarkable ability to make and keep friends brought him rapidly to the front among l1is contemporaries. From the beginning of his medical career he was deeply intcgested I 545. THE, Emorw Campus U22 H ' ' A if IW' 'I T 'qu' il 4 in medical organizations and education. In 1884 he organized what is now the uton, County Medical Society, and during the same year he became connected with the Southe Medical College as Demonstrator of Anatomy. In 1898, when the Atlanta and the Southf Medical Colleges were consolidated to form the Atlanta College of Physicians and. Surgeo Dr. Elkin was retained as Professor of Operatlve Surgery in the new institution. Upona, the death of Dr. Hunter B. Cooper, in 1906, Dr. Elkin was chosen to fill the chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Two years later these cha.irs were separated and he became Professor of Gynecology, which position he continued to hold until 1921, when he gave up teaching to confine his work to the office of Dean. . Dr. Elkin became Dean of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1905, and from this time until the present day, through his continuance in this office, he has been able to render unsurpassed service to medical education in Georgia and the South. He was continued in the office of Dean in 1913, upon the reunion of the two schools to reorganize the old Atlanta Medical College, and two yearslater he was still retained as Dean when the college became the Medical School of Emory University. For many years Dr. Elkin carried on his surgical work in his private institution, first under the name of the Elkin-Cooper Sanitorium and later as the Elkin-Goldsmith Sanit- torium. He is at present Division Surgeon of the N. C. 81 St. L. Railroad and local Surgeon for the L. QYN. Railroad, the Atlanta Joint Terminals, and the American Railway Express Company. He is a Fellow of the American College of.Surgeons and a member of the Fulton County Medical Society, the Medical Association of Georgia, the Southern Medical. Association, American Medical Association, the Southern Surgical Association iandf. ,... ,the Americal Railroad Surgical Association. He has held very important positions in railroad companies and insurance companies in the past. He has been active in- every enterprise for the upbuilding of his chosen city, being Director of two banks and in 1909-,IO President of the Capital City- Club. In 1887 he was married to Miss Nellie Duncan, of Lancaster, Kentucky. ' . it p While our Dean has always been a man of thrifty methods and sound business judg- ment, which have netted him a goodly share of worldly possessions, he hasgno quality which has been more prominent than his generosity. He can always be ,depended upon to give more than his share to any worthy object. His ,donation of 35,000 in .iii 1910 to the college laboratories gave them such equipment as to greatly raise the rating of the insti- tution in the American Association of Medical Colleges.. A short time before this, ,through the efforts of Dr. Elkin, the school had been thevrecipient of 325,000 from Andrew Carnegie. Dr. Elkin's interest in the Medical School has remained at the highest pitch since he first became Dean, seventeen years ago. Emory University is fortunate in the possession of such a man for Dean as William S. Elkin. His rare medical training and experience, his executive ability, his knowledge of men, his wonderful tactpand high 'idealsggive him peculiar qualifications for the position which he fills so admirably. Hisintense-'interest in everything pertaining to the school and its advancement, his cheerfulnesls and ifrnlimited- store of human sympathy endear him to the faculty and student bor' -.gglikegj Emory long continue to profit by his good sense, may he for many ve' 2 ' his smile. . ' Q FRANK K. BoLANn, M. D., oo, 1 i . . l 1 F. 5, - 1 . llirrwzph' 5 . -4 mil1ttttti:1l:1:trtmg1u11inrt1.1 1 ff

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