Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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The End of an Era The year 1960 marks the end of an era for The Duke Medical Center. On the first of July. for the first time since it was established. Wilburt Cornell Davison will not be Dean. The story of The Duke Medical School and The Duke Hospital during these 33 years is largely his story. In 1927 The Duke Medical School began with the appointment of Dr. Davison as its Dean. This man in his middle thirties was already thc possessor of a remarkable career. Upon receipt of the A.B. degree from Princeton in 1913 he became a Rhodes Scholar residing at Magdalen College, Oxford and received the B.A., B.Sc. and.M.A. degrees between 1915 and 1919. lt was here that he began his medi- cal studies and first became a friend of Sir William Osler. He found time to serve with the American Red Cross in France and Serbia during Mr. Wilsons effort to Make the World Safe for Democracy. and from 1917 to 1919 he was First Lieutenant and subsequently Captain in the Medical Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces. He received the M.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins in 1917. Upon such activity is based his famous statement of interest in medical education because he never obtained one. At The Johns Hopkins between 1919 and 1927 he rose rapidly through Instructor. Associate Pro- fessor to Acting Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Acting Pediatrician in Charge. He was also the Editor of The Bulletin of Johns Hopkins and Assistant Dean. At this point another of the Four Horsemen played a decisive part in the future of W. C. Davison. William H. Welch recom- mended him for the newly created post of ,Dean of The Duke University Medical School. The measure of success of our Dean and his remarkable original staff of boys is the success of a 400 bed hospital and its subsequent growth in North Carolina. Students through the years have often heard the familiar statement: When I was a medical student in Baltimore- as the boys at Duke became known throughout the state and nation. The Dean's well known book The Compleat Pediatrician is his best known hobby and the compila- tion has filled otherwise idle moments on trains. Steamers, planes and at lectures and concerts from ls- tanbul to the Canal Zone. He could indeed be found any place on the globe and in such fashion did the name of Duke become a household word in medical circles. Yet such is this man's pervading pres- ence that he always seemed available to the perplexed student. Duke is unique in many respects but the central core of its uniqueness is the importance of the medical student. Few of us are given a name that will not be forgotten. ln the future. Dr. Davison. we shall say: When I was a medical student in Durham-. PAGE 7

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The e inning of an .Ira The year l960 Ends not only The Duke Medical Center but all of medical education and indeed medical practice in a state of flux. lnto this challenging spotlight steps a man who is well known locally. nationally and internationally. On July the lirst Dr. Barnes Woodhall becomes the second Dean of The Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Woodhall was born in Rockport. Maine in l905. He received the A.B. degree from Williams College in l926 and. in keeping with our local tradition, received the M.D. from The Johns Hopkins in 1930. He remained at The Hopkins for the next seven years as intern. resident and instructor in Surgery and in the year I937 was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at The Duke Hospital. During World War ll, Dr. Woodhall was Chief of Neurosurgery at Walter Reed General Hospital and served as a neurosurgical consultant to the Surgeon General, U. S. Army Medical Corps. For his outstanding work dealing with injuries to major nerve trunks, he was awarded the Legion of Merit in IQ46. Upon returning to Duke he became Professor and chairman of the division of Neurosurgery. His vast interests have extended from local perfusions of chemotherapeutic agents in neoplasm to the use of hypothermia in the surgical correction of large vascular anomalies. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, a member of the Board of Gov- ernors of the American College of Surgeons and in 1944 was President of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons. He is a member of the International Surgical Society, the Harvey Cushing So- ciety and the Society of Neurological Surgeons. His academic career is marked by membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Alpha Omega Alpha and Sigma Xi. His appointment is received by unanimous vote of the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of a committee composed of Drs. Handler. Markee. Stead. Busse and Harris. Dr. Woodhall's career has been marked with signal success. He is now asked to walk in the foot- steps of one who has overshadowed most. Judging from past events and present status the future of The Duke Medical Center is bright. We can think of no one more capable of picking up the gauntlet and we look forward to a period of unparalleled growth and development. PAGE 9