UCSF Medical Center - Medi Cal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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QM! 74. SOZMMZZ. Dean Carl L. A. Schmidt assumed his duties as Dean of the College of Pharmacy in l937, succeeding the late H. B. Carey. Previous to that time he held the position he still occupies as Head of the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Schmidt secured his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Uni- versity and since that time has devoted his life to the advancement of science, always being among the first to take progressive steps in Education. Since coming to the College of Pharmacy, Dean Schmidt has instituted a completely new curriculum, designed to promote the advancement of pharmacy by giving a com- plete professional training and a background for work in related fields. Under Dr. Schmidt's direction the principal laboratories in the College have been remodeled and re- fitted with modern equipment. A manufacturing laboratory has been installed to serve the Hospital Pharmacy as well as to offer a new opportunity to the students. Several prominent faculty members have come to the College within the last few years, and in accordance with the promotion of research. Each of these men have been given new, individual research laboratories. A graduate division has also been inaugurated, giving students opportunity to study for advanced degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Students of Pharmacy owe a debt of gratitude to Dean Schmidt for his untiring work in the interest of the College, and in Pharmacy as a whole. ,,, . mt. N ,,,,,, ,r , . , ,,,,,,,, y Wmqmd Tracy. Miss Margaret Tracy, who has been director of nurses at the University ot California Hospital for the past six years, has done a great deal to help the training school, and now it stands high on the list of recommended training schools in the United States. Through her efforts, Social Science courses and Public Health Nursing courses and ex- perience have been added to the train' ing schedule. Miss Tracy started her nursing career at the University of Cincinnati, where she obtained her B.A. degree. After graduation from the Army School of Nursing in Washington, D. C., she did graduate work at' Yale University and there obtained her M.S. degree. Among the positions that she has held are as follows: Staff nurse and supervisor at Henry Street Visiting Nurses Service, New York City tthree yearsl: instructor and superintendent of nurses, Glen Falls Hospital School of Nursing, New York: instructor and assistant professor of nursing administration, Yale University School of Nursing feight yearsl: super- visor and assistant superintendent of nurses, New Haven Hospital School of Nursing tConnecticut7. The textbook for nurses which Miss Tracy published last year, Nursing- An Art and a Science, has already be- come nationally known and used. l t ,l

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'f E Z -1 -' . . K 31. tr ' Dr. Willard C. Fleming was born on October 11, 1899 in Sausalito. In 1918 he graduated from Alameda 1-ligh School and entered the University of California College of Commerce, but transferred almost immediately to the Col- lege of Dentistry. 1-le was active in student affairs and served as student body president. As an undergraduate he developed a strong interest in research and worked with the California Stoma- tological Research Group. After graduation in 1923 he divided his time between private practice in Oakland and teaching at the College. I-le did not give up his interest in research and continued investigations and study in the field of paradentics. ln 1935 Dr. Fleming was appointed Assistant Dean of the College of Dentistry and in 1939 became Dean of the College. Dr. Fleming confesses to being an amateur photographer and has put his hobby to good account in the field of dentistry. 1-le is interested in sports and admits trying them all. He says that with the single exception of golf his performance has been bad. 1n golf, he adds, 1 am really. terrible. Dean Fleming is a member of the American Dental Association, American College of Dentists, Epsilon Alpha, Psi Omega and the Masonic Order. 234. .Za Pcwzim . Dr. Langley Porter has been Dean and Professor of Med- icine in the University of California Medical School from 1927 to 1940, except during the tenure of office of Dean Williams McKim Marriott, Iuly 1 to November ll, 1936. When Dr, Marriott passed away, after a short illness, Dean Porter returned to the deanship. I-le is on sabbatical leave of absence this semester and he will retire on Iune 30, 1940. The medical students have the greatest affection and admiration for Dean Porter because of his kindly sympa- thetic manner, his unfailing interest in their problems and his desire to help them in every way possible. Dr. Porter, a graduate of Cooper Medical College fnow Stanford University School of Medicineb in 1896, was in practice in San Francisco for many years prior to his ap- pointment as Dean. His practice was limited to pediatrics and he has a national reputation in that field as well as in the fields of musical education and administration. He has always been interested in medical history and bibliography, and his publications include several in that subject as well as in pediatrics. He is a member of various medical so- cieties, including the San Francisco County Medical Society, the California Medical Association, the California Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association, the Amer- ican Pediatric Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Dr. Karl F. Meyer was born in Basel, Switzerland, and received his doctorate from the University of Zurich. He be- came associated with the University of California in 1913 and has been chair- man of the Department of Bacteriology and Director of the Hooper Foundation since 1924. He is known for his work in undulant fever, hotulism, psittacosis and sylvatic plague, and as Director of the Research Laboratories of the National Canners Association, has been re- sponsible tor the institution of safe methods of process and control of com- mercially canned foods. He has for many years been greatly interested in the importance of animals as reservoirs for human diseases. Dr. Hermann Becks was graduated in dentistry and medicine in Rostock, Ger- many. l-le received special education in general pathology and histopathology under Dr. L. Aschoff and in biochem- istry under Dr. L. Spiro. In 1928 he received appointment to the University of California, College of Dentistry, and the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research in San Francisco, and since i934 has held the position of Chairman of the Division of Dental Medicine at the College of Dentistry. His main field of research deals with investigations of pathologic bone forma- tion of jaws and skulls and their roent- genographic aspect, and the relationship of lactobacillus acidophilus to dental caries. i, U., Wm -gi Chauncey D. Leake. Ph.D., came to the University of California Medical School in the fall of 1927 as Professor of Pharmacology. ln 1936 he was made Librarian oi the Medical Center Library. Dr. Leake has been interested in devel- oping an interest in the history of sci- ence in the University and has lately been placed in charge of a voluntary course on human relations on the Berke- ley Campus. Under Dr. Leake's direc- tion, the Pharmacology Laboratory has trained a large number of young men who have taken responsible positions in this country and abroad. His chief fields of interest have been in anesthesia, chemotherapy, and industrial toxicology.