Bennett Medical College - Em Dee Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Henry S. Spalding, S. J., who has charge of the affiliated work of the University, and who has lately been appointed President of Loyola Academy, was born in Kentucky in l865. He was for a year Professor of History and Literature at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. He was Vice-Presb dent of Marquette University for seven years and labored with Father Bur- rowes, former President of Loyola in developing the courses of that institution. For the past five years he has had charge of the affiliated work of Loyola, his principal duties being in connection with the medical school, in which he has taken great interest and pride. He is the author of several books for boys. His first book, entitled The Cave by the Beech Fork, has gone through eight editions and has been translated into German. His se:ond book, The Sheriff of the Beech Fork, is equally as interesting as his flrst book. Recently his latest book has been published, the scenes of which are laid in Kentucky, the place he knows so well. Father Spalding lectures to the Senior Medical Class on the subject of Moral Principles and Medical Practice. Member of the Board of'Trustees. Lecturer of Medical jurisprudence. 17

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its - - John Dill Robertson, B. S., lVl. D., was born on March 6, IS7 I, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He became interested in railroad work and was a telegrapher for a number of years in the Middle West. Realizing that he was not living up to the fullest of his abilities, he went to Tyrone, Penna., and read Medicine for a period of six months under Dr. C. M, Ewing. At the expira- tion of this time he came to Chicago and entered Bennett, from which he grad- uated in IS96. l-le took the competitive examination for interne at Cook County l-lospital, which he successfully passed, and served there during i896- 1897. After completing his interneship he opened an oflice on the West Side and became connected with Bennett, where he occupied the Chair of Chemis- try. He was appointed Attending Surgeon of Cook County Hospital in i898 and remained in this capacity until the spring of I9 l 3, when his multitudinous duties made it necessary for him to relinquish his position. ln i900 he organ- ized the American College of Medicine and Surgery, now the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. Two years later he was instrumental in building the Frances E. Willard Hospital. ln i905 he sold the American College of Medi- cine and Surgery to Valparaiso University, and again became connected with Bennett, where he was appointed Professor of Surgery. At this time, jeffer- son Park l-lospital, of which he was the founder, became affiliated with Ben- nett. ln i908 he was elected President of the Board of Trustees of Bennett, which position he held until June, IQI4. The school in a very short time showed the influence of his energy and spirit and has been steadily progressing from the time he became associated with it. ln addition to his professional and college duties, Dr. Robertson is Vice-President of the State Board of .Agriculture from the Sixth Congressional District, and is Superintendent of the Boys' State Fair School, the Educational Department, and the Emergency Hospital on the State Fair Grounds at Springfield. As an author and in- structor he stands high in the medical profession. Member of the American Medical Association and the Chicago Medical Society. Member of the Phi Delta Epsilon Fraternity. IH