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

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Foreword Mr. Iames B. Duke's interest in doing something for medicine may have started with an encounter with a small boy. The youngster saw Mr. Duke watching the power plant being built at Lake Iames fMarion, North Carolinaj and followed him around listening to his questions, his orders, his decisions. Finally, the boy asked his own question. Mister, he asked, can you cure lits?', The engineers thought it was an amusing joke. But Mr. Duke was interested in the child and questioned him. He learned that the boy's father was subject to Hts. There and then Mr. Duke gave orders that medical attention in New York be given to the child's father. Ionathan Daniels published the above story in the News and Observer on I4 Septem- ber 1947, and it was reproduced in papers all over the country. Duke Hospital was Hooded for the next month with the same question: uCan you cure fits? Mr. Duke's realization of the necessity of training doctors to meet the medical needs of the people of North and South Carolina may well have stemmed from this incident. On October 1, 1925, ten days before his death, he added ten million dollars to the Duke Endowment for a medical school, hospital and nurses home at Duke University. To quote Mr. Duke's Indenture: It is to these rural districts that we are to look in large measure for the bone and sinew of our country . . . and education when con- ducted along sane and practical, as opposed to dogmatic and theoretical, lines, is, next to religion, the greatest civilizing influence .... I have selected hospitals as another of the principal objects of this trust because I recognize that they have become indispensable institutions . . . and that if Duke University, in the judgment of the Trustees under this Indenture be not operated to achieve the results intended hereby, the Trustees may withhold support. W. C. DAVISON four

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DEDICATIO David Tillerson Smith, physician, teacher, scholar. we respectfully dedicate this Aesczzlapian to you. An indelible part of The Duke Experience, you have influenced each of us as you have every Duke medical student who has come before. Your sagacity, gentlemanliness, wit, and intellec- tual honesty give much for the student physician to emulate. Your accomplishments set an example to which we can aspire. - You were one of the group of outstanding men of American medicine which assembled at Duke University in IQ50 to found the School of Medicine, the philosophies and ideals of that original group became the principles which led the school to become, within a generation, a leading medical center of this country. ' David T. Smith was born October 1, 1898, in Anderson County, South. Carolina. He attended the public schools and then Furman University where in 1918 he received the A.B. degree. From there he went to The Iohns Hopkins University where he took his medical degree in 1922. He interned in pediatrics for one year at The Hopkins and then went to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. A year later Dr. Smith accepted an appointment as Chief of Research Laboratories of the New York State Hospitals for Tuberculosis, a position which he held for six years as bacteri- ologist and pathologist. It was then that he was invited to join the new faculty at Duke. He came here in 1930 as Professor of Bacteriology and Associate Professor of Medicine. He was the youngest man on the staff. Dr. Smith's contributions to the body of medical knowledge are truly remarkable. He is author of more than one hundred fifty publications representing every type of professional communications medium including journals, texts, manuals, systems, books, articles. The Zinrser Textbook of Microbiology is a dehnitive reference work throughout the medical world, and this famous text has been carried with co-authors by Dr. Smith through four editions. He has contributed also to numerous lay pub- lications writing in a manner the public can understand, bringing to community level the principles of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. A His professional honors are legion: The Trudeau Medal for research in tubercu- losis, his capacity as consultant on tropical medicine to the Secretary of War during World War Il, his nomination by the President's Committee as Physician of the Year 1959 for his work in rehabilitation of the handicapped, his great efforts and successes in rehabilitation of chronic lung diseases, pellagra, and the mycoses, or his work in postgraduate education for the Negro physician, his leadership of numerous societies and associations . . . there are many many more. But really what is the essence of this man, of this doctor who is at home at the podium of the National Tuberculosis Association or the County Medical Society or guiding the presentation at a clinical pathological conference, streaking a petri plate in the student lab or spinning a yarn at a Medical Dames meeting? Dr. Smith, we can say simply, that you give-to your profession, your patients, your students, to science, to humanity. You are the good man. The good physician. three

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CONTENTS Administration and Faculty .,... Classes . . A Seniors .... Iuniors ,... Sophomores . , . Freshmen .........,. ,..... Research Training Program Organizations .... ,,..,..... 4..,..,... I 0 1 Student Government Association SAMA Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Dames Features . . . Index and Advertising .... fizfe