Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dr. Charles Leonard Brown, B.A., M.D., F.A.C.P. Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine In admiration for the pre-eminent position he has attained in medicine, in appreciation of his work and ability as a teacher, and in esteem of his genuine, unselfish, and sincere good will os a physician, gentleman, ond friend, the Class of 1942 respectfully dedicates this book. On April 27, 1899, Dr, Brown was born in the small town of Metropolis. Illinois. His father. William Andrew Brown, is a descendant of the North Irelanders and his mother, Martha Wallace Brown, is o( Scotch-lrish ancestry. It was in this town along the banks of the Ohio River that Dr. Brown spent his early boyhood and began his early education. At the age of ten his family moved to Geary. Oklahoma, where he continued his grammar school education soon after his -fifteenth birth-moved to Monrovia. California. After residing here for a few months, they took up their residency at Selma. California, in the San Joaquin Valley. The Brown family then returned to Geory, Oklahoma, where Dr. Brown finished his high school eeducation soon after his -fifteenth birthday. Before entering college he attended the Capitol City Business College in Guthrie, Oklahoma, to learn shorthand and typing. For a long time before entering college, Dr. Brown had decided to make the practice of medicine his life work. With this goal in mind he began his premedical work in the fall of 191 5 at the University of Oklahoma and has since given his entire time and effort to the study, practice, and teaching of medicine. After two years of premedical work he entered the School of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma to begin his distinguished accomplishment of becoming one of the youngest professors of medicine in the United States. After his first year in medical school he became an assistant in the department of anatomy. After his second year he became o' resident pathologist at St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City, where he completed his final two years of medical school. It was in 1919 that he joined the Alpha Lambda Chapter of the Phi Beta Pi Medical Fraternity and it was during this year that he received his Bachelor of Science degree. After getting his M.D. degree in 1921, Dr. Brown began to practice medicine as an assistant in the office of Arthur W. White in Oklahoma City. In February of 1922 he received his appointment os a house officer in medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. From the time he left Oklahoma City until his arrival in Philadelphia, his rapid advancement in the field of medicine is a fitting record of Dr. Brown’s energy and capabilities. After serving the sixteen months os house officer at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he became resident pathologist at the Children's Hospital in Boston from 1923 to 1924, Instructor in Pathology at Harvard from 1923 to 1925, Resident in Pathology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1924 to 1925, Resident Physician in Medicine at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1925 to 1927, Teaching Fellow at Harvard from 1925 to 1927. and Junior Associate in Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1927 to 1928. In addition, while in Boston, he practiced as office assistant to Dr. Henry Christian in 1927 and 1928. In July of 1928, Dr. Brown was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After serving one year in this capacity, he was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan and retained that position until he came to Temple Medical School as Professor of Medicine and head of the Department of Medicine in 1935. In addition to his work at Temple he is Chief of the Division of Medicine at Philadelphia General Hospital. While still in Boston, Dr. Brown married Ruth McAllister Jamieson on June 9. 1928, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Two of Dr. and Mrs. Brown's chief interests in life are their daughters, Janet Jamieson and Martha Ann, ages eleven and eight years resoectively.