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While looking over my mail the morning of May 25, 1H31, I opened a letter from Dean G. M. Billings of the Wake Forest Medical School, informing me that I had been appointed at the annual meeting of the Board of Tru.stee.s to solicit subscriptions for a quarter of a million dollars for endowment for the school. After formally accepting the appointment, I called on Drs. Russell Perry and L. H. Hob- good, who. after discussing ol l college days, helped me plan an extensive campaign. It was decided that the Class of ' 17, having proven tlie most successful class, should cnntriliiitc one half of the propo.sed amount. The expense of the campaign was to be paid by Dr. J. Grady Booe, of Cana, X. ( ' ., now a thriving city. The addresses of all the alumni of ' 17 were easily secured, except that of Dr. Way, who had magically disappeared. Every alumnus in the C ' arohnas and Georgia responded gener- ously, but no large subscriptions were secured till I reached Jacksonville, Fla. Here I called on Dr. H. H. Foster, Genito-urinary specialist of wide fame. At the hotel that night I foimd Drs. E. G. McMillan and T. M. Watson, who had come down from their private sanitarium at Asheville, to play golf at the Rockefeller golf links. 1 learned that they were having great success treating tuberculosis with their new cure. At Birmingham Dr. John D. Humber received me kindly. He was exceedingly busy with his eye, ear, nose, and throat practice, having just returned from ' Valparaiso, Ind., where he had been for three months taking treatment from the President of Valparaiso University, Dr. W. S. Woody, eye .specialist of national reputation. At St. Louis I had hoped to spend some time with Dr. J. S. Brewer, head of the St. Louis General Hospital, but learned that he was away at the Republican National Convention, of which he was chairman, then in session at Chicago. I then started for the office of Dr. Craig Jones, City Physician, where, to my surprise, I found Dr. F. L. Ray, of Mexico City. There he had gained a fortune treating tuberculosis. They informed me that Dr. J. P. Hunter, State Medical Commissioner of Mis.souri, was in the city for that day. Dr. W. M. Strickland was forced by ill health to give up his extensive practice in Mont- real, Canada. He then turned his attention to singing and, as he was scheduled to perform at the Academy of Music that night, I went out and heard him with pleasure. With the full amount subscribed, I returned to Wake Forest. There I found a letter from Maj. J. E. Howell, Surgeon of the U. S. Army, then coaching the Army football team at West Point. Thus ended the successful campaign among the most prosperous class of the Wake Forest Medical School. Prophet.
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iHebical Clasis i igtorp A definition of iiistorj- in its IjroaJcst sense means everything that man has done, either generally or in a eertain particular capacity. It is not the pm-pose of this paper to give a com- plete historj ' of the Medical class. Space forbids this, even if it were our wish. Our purpose is to enumerate in a few words a few of the things that make this one of the greatest classes since the department which we repre-scnt became a part of the college. As a cla.ss we first became a unit when we undertook the study of osteology under Dr. Smith in the fall of 1915. No one can imagine tile toil and worry that wius our lot during that year. Obstacle after obstacle piled up before us, yet we struggled on and finally came out victorious. The fact that the face of the medical student is seen in and around the Alumni building the greater part of every six days would lead one to think our interest and activities were cen- tered in one sphere. But such is not the mse. There is no cla.ss in the college that has a greater diversity of interest and activities than the Medical cla.ss. And it is a matter of interest that our men are holding their on-n in all the different plia.ses of college Ufe which they have entered. I cite a few instances. Is it a reflection to have Booe, the president of the Senior class of ' 16, in our class? And there is Humber, chairman of the Honor Committee, and Perr ' , baseball manager of 1916, with Watson, Jones, and Harris on the Senate Committee. There is also Billings, an ex-varsity star and now coach of biiscball and football, and Howell, assistant coach of football. There are many other examples which might be cited, but space forbids. I[i the field of research we have not been found lacking. McMillan has finally succeeded in isolating an organism, the StaphlococciLs Eitilthenorsenthisus, which he says is responsible for John Hunter ' s laziness. Craig Jones and Sharky Ray claim to have discovered a process by which one can learn without studying. Dr. Carstarphen, however, has not yet put it to the test. The hardest of all tasks has, however, been assumed by Booth, Foster, Hobgood, Perrj-, Way, and Woody, namely, that of trying to discover a drug by which Booe will be rendered calm and serene in the presence of the Professor of Anatomy. And lastly, that ever-essential piece of protoplasm aggregated in the production of the Circle of Willis is working to unravel the cau.se of abnormalities. Our days at Wake Porest arc about over and we look back with pride on our achievements, as a whole. Ours is the class of which Dr. Smith said that it Wiis ten per cent better than any he had ever had. We have stood together as one, and becau.se of this fact we have accomplished many things, most notable of which was the getting out of gym. in our Junior year. But we now leave Wake Forest to pursue our studies at another institution. Our greatest wish is that all the Pain-Killers (Augmentors) that follow us here may be .as great in achieve- ment and obedience as their predecessors of the Class of 1917. Historian.
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