Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Tke Million Dollar Campaign N February 23, 1926, at ten o ' clock, the campaign to raise for the Medical College of Virginia a million dollars for endowment and buildings was formally launched at student assembly. When the plan had been laid before the students by the president and deans of the college, there was an immediate response. Class teams were appointed and the work of securing pledges to the campaign was on. The student body entered into the spirit of the movement in a way which perhaps surprised even the students themselves. Day after day the total of the pledges mounted until practically every student within the college was pledged, the final sum from the students running beyond forty thousand dollars. Simultaneous with the student campaign the work of soliciting the faculty began. Here, too, the response was fine, with every hope as the X-Ray goes to press of securing from faculty and students considerably more than a hundred thousand dollars. Following the campus campaign the alumni and friends outside of Richmond will be solicited personally. When this effort has been concluded the campaign will come back to Richmond to be closed in the community where the college has been operating for nearly a century. While a million dollars is a large sum, those who have planned the campaign so carefully believe that if the public generally receives the purposes of the campaign in anything like the spirit of the campus, its objectives will be fully reached. They are : Approximately $350,000 for a new teaching unit; $125,000 for a nurses home and women ' s dormitory; $400,000 endowment for whole-time clinical service; $65,000 for general endowment; $50,000 for library endowment, and $io,000 for a student loan fund. It is fully expected that if the million dollars can be raised it will attract other gifts to the institution, thus making possible an increasingly influential and useful profes- sional college with schools of medicine, denistry, pharmacy, and nursing. IS

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JS: ' SMit i.Mm coil rses of lectures in materia medica, therapeutics, and in chemistry and pharmacy, and having been thoroughly examined by them and compiled with such regulations as may be adopted by the faculty, shall be deemed worthy of that distinction. In 1897-98 a division of the college was made into three parts — Medicine, Denistry and Pharmacy. The consolidation of the Medical College of Virginia and the University College of Medicine was effected in 1913. And in 1914 the Charlotte Medical College became a part of the Medical College of Virginia. In the recent war the alumni of this school took an active part. Many of the grad- uates served with distinction. A base hospital unit and an ambulance corps went out from here. Both saw active service in France. In this brief outline, nothing has been said of the effect that this medical college has had on the medical education generally and especially in the South. We are assured that it has not been without great influence. We have said nothing of the development of the School of Nursing. This would constitute an interesting chapter. We have touched upon the part the alumni of the Medical College of Virginia have played m times of war. We have said nothing of their services in times of peace We are led to believe that this would constitute the greatest and most satisfactory chapter We present you with this brief sketch for what it is worth. May it inspire someone to write a real history of this historical institution. L. C. Bird. 14 mmmm

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.mmd l rag an.7i;v aM: .Tan«agri»rSr..iE=.-.3 -o- Board of Visitors Officers Eppa Hunton, Jr Chairman L. Z. Morris V ice-Chairman J R. McCauley . Secretary-Treasurer Joseph M. Burke, M.D., Physician Petershurg, Fa. H. L. Cabell, Esq., Banker and Broker Richmond, Va. Chas. p. Cardwell, Esq., Attorney at Law Richmond, Va. J. B. Fisher, M.D., Physician Midlothian, Va. W. L. Harris, M.D., Physician . Norfolk, Va. Julien H. Hill, Esq., President State City Bank Trust Co. . . Richmond, Va. Eppa Hunton, Jr., Esq., President R., F. P. Ry. . Richmond, Va. Paulus a. Irving, M.D., Physician Farmville, Va. J. D. Johnston, Esq., Attorney-at-Law Roanoke, Va. E. L. Kendig, M.D., Physician Victoria, Va. Stuart McGuire, M.D., LL.D., Surgeon Richmond, Va. W. R. Miller, Esq., Secretary-Treasurer Union Theological Seminary Richmond, Va. Thomas L. Moore, Esq., Manufacturer, Dunlop Mills Richmond, Va. L. Z. Morris, Esq., President Savings Bank of Richmond .... Richmond, Va. R. J. Payne, M.D., Physician Fredericksburg , Va. William T. Reed, Esq., President Larus Bro. Co Richmond, Va. E. D. Taylor, Esq., President Powers-Taylor Drug Co Richmond, Va. John Bell Williams, Ph.G., D.D.S., Dentist . Richmond, Va. John W. Williams, Esq., Clerk State House of Delegates .... Richmond, Va. Executive Committee of the Board Thomas L. Moore, Chairman H. L. Cabell Julien H. Hill Eppa Hunton, Jr. W. R. Miller Stuart McQuire Wm. T. Reed i6 S t W aj BiWBWgWC. Virqinu