University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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IN MEMORIAM iEug u IFaitutl rny (EnritrU 1843 - 1913 A SOLDIER. A SCHOLAR OF RARE ATTAINMENTS. A PROLIFIC WRITER. A MAN WHO LOVED HIS FELLOW MAN ABOVE ALL ELSE. HIS LIFE WAS AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE OF DEVOTION TO DUTY AND TO HUMANITY. TO KNOW HIM WAS TO LOVE HIM: FOR SUCH WERE HIS NOBLE QUALITIES THEY COMMANDED MORE THAN RESPECT AND ADMIRATION. ALL DEPLORE HIS LOSS TO THE WORLD.

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frntesnr Artltur M. i bt bu, il.i. RTHUR MARIOTT SHIPLEY was Ijorn on what is known as the Upper Farm near Harmans, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. January Sth, 1S78. being the oldest child of Roderick Octavius Shipley and W ' ilhelmina Clark Shipley. As a youngster he attended the country school near his home, and when thirteen, he was started in the Friends School, which was then at Preston and McCulloh Streets, lialtimore, Md. In three years he was graduated from the Friends School and immediately took a business course at Bryant Stratton ' s Business College. The summer following this fall course he worked on the farm, and the following fall taught in the little country school known as the Friend- ship School. The loss of hfs mother, who had been an invalid for several years, possibly had a great deal to do with his choice of Medicine as a profession, but he gives as the reason why he did not choose the farm, because he hated chickens and cows — they made so much noise and had so little sense. In the fall of 1898, at the age of 20, he entered upon his course in Medicine at the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1902, at the age of 24. He was first honor man of his class, having the second highest average in the history of the college. The first six months of his Senior year he was Clinical Assistant and the last si. months was resident in the Maternity. In 1902-1903 Dr. §hipley was resident surgeon, being assist- ant to the beloved Dr. Tififa;ny. As Dr. Tiffany resigned this year Dr. Shii)ley was the last assistant this great man had and was then transferred to Dr. Frank Martin. In 1903-1904 he was Senior Resident Surgeon, the onlv Senior Resident Surgeon in the history of the Hospital. In 1904 he was elected Superintendent of the Hospital, occupying this position until July. 1908. In the spring of 1903, while still in the Ho.spital, he was made Associate Professor of Surgery. In 1906 he spent six months abroad at Strausberg, Germany, in Prof. Chiaris ' Clinic of General Pathology. In 1909 he was elected to the Senior Faculty, also Professor of Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics. May . th of the same year he mar- ried Miss Julia Joyner, of I ' )altimore. In 1910 Professor Shipley was changed from Ther- apeutics to Materia Medica, and in January, 1911, he was made Surgeon-in-Chief to the City Hospital and Consulting Surgeon to Sydenham Hospital. In P ' lO and l ' ' ll he was President of the Baltimore City Medical Societ -. He is a member of the .American Medical Association, a memljcr of the Medico-Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. In November, l ' J13, he became a charter memlier of The American College of Surgeons and was elected on the Board of Governors of that body. In closing, it mav well be said that every man, whose privilege it has been to claim Professor Shipley as a teacher, has been impressed with liis readiness to help in the uplift of the individual student and the student-body, and his clear, well-rounded manner of pre- senting a subject to the student marks him as a teacher without a jieer and to tlic manin born. 21

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iEugpup iFamttbrotr QlorlirU :w m M H S T is must betitting at this time that the Pxiard of Editors of Ti ' .rra Mariae should endeavor to remember our late professor and friend, Eugene Fauntle- rov Cordell. In attempting to eulogize his life and deeds, we feel that Professor ' inslow has beautifully ])ortrayed them in the following vivid word-picture, which was delivered in his memorv on Academic Day. Pallid Death, who visits impartially the hovels of the poor and the • • palaces of princes, has knocked again at our door, and one of our most dis- tinguished, most useful, and most loyal co-laborers has answered to the call. ( )n July 31st, l ' )13, Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell, A.M., M.D ., Professor of the History of Medicine and Librarian of the Medical School, locked the doors of the Library and posted a notice that the library would not be open until September 1st. With a light heart and a lithesome step he left the halls that were so dear to him, and eagerly anticipated his usual vacation of a month. With his dex ' oted wife he visited the scenes of his boyhood at Charles- town, W. ' a., and with his cup overflowing with delight, he spent several weeks in joyous communion with his friends in that pleasant town. During the latter part of his visit he was seized with a painful, but not alarming disorder, and returned home. His condition was not such as to cause apprehension, and it was confidently e.xjiected that he would be able to resume his activities in a few days. This e.xpectation, however, was not to be re- alized, as on the morning of .August 27th, he suddenly heard the voice of his Maker and, we reverently believe, answered adsiiiii at the last roll call. Dr. Cordell was born at Charlestown, Va., now West ' irginia, on June 25th, 1843; the son of Dr. L. O ' Connor and Christine Turner Cordell. His early education was re- ceived at the Charlestown Academy, and at the Episcopal High School at Alexandria, ' a. ; and for a short time he was a student at the Virginia Military Institute. When he was only eighteen years of age the Civil War broke out and, notwithstanding the objection of his father, he enlLsted as a private in Wise ' s Legion, of the Confederate Army. He served bravely from 1861-65, being in many engagements; was wounded at Winchester on September 19th, 1863, and was a ])risoner of w-ar from March 2, 1865, to June 10, 1865. During the latter part of his service he was a coiumissioned officer with the rank of lieu- tenant, though he was often in command of his company. Dr. Cordell girded on his sword under a sense of duty to his state and country, but he was essentially a man of peace, and when the war ceased his thoughts soon turned toward a vocation whose object is to save life and relieve suffering, namely, that of medicine. He entered the Medical School of this University in 1866 and, as was usual in those days, graduated two years later in 1868. Dur- ing 1868-69 he was Assistant Physician at the P altimore Infirmary, now known as the Uni- versity Hospital, where he served under the courtly McSherry and the beloxed Chew, and 23