Columbia University School of Public Health - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF COLUMBIA ,UNIVERSITY Columbia University was founded- in 1754. It was established as King's College, by a royal grant of Georgegll, King of England, for the Instruction of Youth in the Learned Languages and the Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Revolutionary War interrupted its program, but in 1784 it was reopened as Columbia College. In 1912 the title was changed to Columbia University in the City of New York. The School of Medicine occupies a site on West I68tl'1 Street between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue as a part of the Medical Center. It is housed in a seventeen- story, fire-resisting, steel, brick, and concrete building, each Hoor connecting with the wards and services of Presbyterian Hospital, Sloane Hospital for Women, and Vanderbilt Clinic. The Trustees of Columbia University, on May 2, 1921, established an Institute of Public Health, and provided for its maintenance from the income of the DeLamar Endowment Fund in accordance with the terms of the will of Ioseph R. DeLamar. Memory of this generous gift is perpetuated through the creation of the DeLamar Professorship of Public Health Practice and the DeLamar Professorship of Administrative Medicine. By action of the Trustees the designation Institute was changed to that of School of Public Health as of Iuly 1, 1945, and on Iuly 1, 1955, the designation School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine became effective. This School is an integral part of the Faculty of Medicine of the University and includes the fields of biostatistics, epide- miology, occupational medicine, nutrition, public health practice, sanitary science, tropicai diseases, administrative medicine, hospital administration, public health education, and other Helds related to public health. ' The School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine is under the Faculty of Medi- cine of Columbia University and shares in the research and teaching resources of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and aliiliated hospitals and clinics. It is fortunate in being able to utilize the unusually large number of extramural public health facilities in and around New York City. Collectively, these resources and affiliations make it pos- sible to provide to graduate students unusually complete and diversified experience in the general organization and administration of oflicial and nonoflicial public health agencies, in the clinical and epidemiological aspects of the acute communicable diseases, of tubercu- losis and the venereal diseases, in programs in maternal and child hygiene, school health work, public health education, food control, milk sanitation, housing, the operation of water and sewerage plants, industrial hygiene and medicine, vital statistics, and hospital administration, and to obtain for research and teaching purposes clinical and laboratory material in relation to parasitology, tropical diseases, and medical entomology. The purposes of the School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine are to offer a complete curriculum in the theory and practice of administrative medicine, preventive medicine, and public health in their several aspects, and to provide leadership and guid- ance for graduate students who desire to do advanced work in the public health science which bears upon the preventable diseases and the individual and social aspects of public health problems, as well as hospital organization and medical care. It extends to the lay public through existing channels of popular education the benefits of reliable information in the protection and development of human health and the prevention of disease, as specifically directed in the will of the late Ioseph R. DeLamar. 4

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DEDICATICDN R. RAY E. TRUSSELL was appointed Executive Otticer of the School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine, Columbia Uni- versity, on July'1, 1955. At that time he also assumed the posts of DeLamar Professor of Administrative Medicine and Associate Dean for Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Trussell received his medical degree at the University of Iowa in 1941, and his master of public health from The Johns Hopkins University in 1947. Formerly Professor of Preventive Med- icine at Albany Medical College, Dr. Trussell was also founding director of the Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, N. I., an outstanding venture in improving rural medical care in the United States. We the Class of 1956, are honored to be the first students enrolled under his leadership. With his direction we are confident that the Columbia University School of Public Health and Admin- istrative Medicine will continue to excell in education and research as it has done in the past. We therefore dedicate this yearbook to DOCTOR RAY E. TRUSSELL 3

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FGREWORD HIS YEARBOOK is a record of the Class of 1956 at Columbia University School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine. The Class is quite heterogeneous. its members representing many backgrounds, interests and disciplines. In spite of these varied backgrounds, both geographic and professional, the ability of the student body and faculty to function as a team is demonstrated by this yearbook. Under the signal leadership of Dr. Ray E. Trussell, faculty and students alike have profited from the school's curriculum. This Class is something more than the sum of its student mem- bers. It is a dynamic entity resulting from the interplay of individual influences exerted by the students, faculty and school. Employing the epidemiological concept of the natural history of disease for analogy, we have students as host, faculty as agent, and school as environment -producing the Class of 1956. 5