American College of Surgeons - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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GENERAL STATEMENT ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLEGE THE American College of Surgeons is a society of surgeons of North and South America which aims to include within its Fellowship all who are of worthy character and who possess a practical knowledge of the science and art of surgery. The College is fundamentally concerned with matters of character and of training, with the betterment of hospitals and of teaching facihties in medical schools and hospitals, with laws which relate to medical practice and privilege, and with an imselhsh protection of the pubUc from incompetent medical service. The College was organized on May 5, 1913, in Washington, D. C, wh en four hundred and fifty prominent surgeons came to- gether at the invitation of an Organization Committee which had been appointed by the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America at its meeting in November, 191 2. This Committee con- sisted of Edward Martin of Philadelphia, Emmet Rixford of San Francisco, John B. Murphy of Chicago, Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, Albert J. Ochsner of Chicago, Charles H. Mayo of Roches- ter, Frederic J. Cotton of Boston, George Emerson Brewer of New York, John M. T. Finney of Baltimore, Walter W. Chipman of Montreal, George W. Crile of Cleveland, and Franklin H. Martin of Chicago. By-laws, rules, and regulations were adopted, and the Board of Regents, the Board of Governors, and officers of the College were elected. Details of these matters are pubUshed in the Year Book and in bulletins of the College. THE ENDOWMENT FUND In order to provide fimds for the organiza tion of the College, an initial fee of fifty dollars from each Fellow was voted at the

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XX American College of Surgeons William Stickney Rutland Stanley Stillman San Francisco Lewis a. Stimson New York Charles F. Stokes Washington Isaac S. Stone Washington James S Stone Boston W. E. Studdeford New York Milton C. Sturgis Seattle John E. Summers Omaha H. B. Sweetser Minneapxjlis Parker Syms New York •Dudley Tait San Francisco Frederick J. Taussig St. Louis Howard C. Taylor New York Wallace Irving Terry San Francisco James Edwin Thompson Galveston John A. Thompson John J. Thompson George H. Torney Harry N. Torrey Hugh Henry Trout Cincinnati Kansas City Washington Detroit Roanoke Philemon E.Truesdale Fall River Walter Truslow Brooklyn Ernest F. Tucker Portland Herman Tuholske St. Louis Paul Y. Tupper St Louis Raymond C. Turck Jacksonville W. 0. Turner Montreal Edgar A. Vander Veer Albany W. B. VanLennep Philadelphia C. Van Zwaluwenburg Riverside George Tully Vaughan Washington EdmondM.VonEberts Montreal W. F. B. Wakeeield San Francisco Frank B. Walker Detroit George Walker Baltimore John B. Walker New York Thoj£AS Dyson Walker George G. Ward, Jr. Wilbur Ward John R. Wathen Thomas J. Watkins Stephen H. Watts J. Clarence Webster Alanson Weeks John R. Wellington Brooks Hughes Wells X. O. Werder Richard W. Westbrook Horace G. Wetherill Charles S. White William H. Wilder Espy Milo Williams Hadley Williams J. Whitridge Williams A. Murat Willis Park Reed Willis William H. Wilmer H. Augustus Wilson Randolph Winslow David J. G. Wishart John Wishart O. O. Witherbee T. Casey Witherspoon John Murphy Withrow Frank C. Witter Casey A. Wood James Craven Wood George Woolsey Arthur Wright John Lawrence Yates Hugh Hampton Yoins o E. GusTAV Zinke St. John New York New York Louisville Chicago University Chicago San Francisco Washington New York Pittsburgh Brooklyn Denver Washington Chicago Paterson London Baltimore Richmond Seattle Washington Philadelphia Baltimore Toronto London Los Angeles Butte Cincinnati Petoskey Chicago Cleveland New York Toronto Milwaukee Baltimore Cinciimati

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2 American College of Surgeons first meeting. Realizing that the income to be derived in this manner was temporary and inadequate, and desiring to place the College on a sound financial basis, the Fellows voted in June, 1914, to raise an Endowment Fund of one million dollars. This plan provided that the Endowment should be invested in perpetuity and only the income used for the budget of the College. It developed later that the educational work of the College called for expenditures beyond the income provided by the interest of the Endowment, and the Fellows of the College, at the annual meeting held in Philadelphia in 1916, voted that those who had not subscribed to the fund should be assessed by annual dues of twenty-five dollars each. The full resolution provided: 1. That the initial Fellowship fee of the College is $100, pay- able upon notification of election to Fellowship. The initial Fellow- ship fee of candidates whose applications were filed at the executive offices of the College before November i, 1914, is $50. 2. That annual dues of the College are provided as follows: 1. That the annual dues of the Fellows of the College be $25, payable January i. 2. That all Fellows who have subscribed $500 to the En- dowment Fund of the College be exempt from annual dues. 3. That the total amount required of any Fellow in annual dues or other fees shall not exceed $500. 4. That the Board of Regents cancel the indebtedness of any Fellow of the College, without publicity, to whom, in its judgment, such dues are a hardship. 5. That no Fellow of the College be asked to contribute any fee whatever to the College eith er after sixty-five years of age or after he has retired from the active practice of surgery. More than half a million dollars has already been raised for the Endowment, and the Regents desire to bring the fund up to one million dollars as rapidly as possible. A Fellow may become a life member of the College at any time by subscribing five hundred dollars to the permanent Endowment Fund. Subscription cards,