University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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THE MAYU FOUNDATION AT HUEHESTEH, MINNESUTI-X

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DR. EHARLES MAYEI My brother Will and I, Ur. Eharlie would drawl, his eyes laughing, his broad mouth guirking in a grin, as he spun a yarn for the men who always seemed to gather where he was. Public health and social and civic mailers were always his share of the clinic's work although the surgery of the nervous system was his major field. Eor years he was city health officer and Board of Education member in Rochester. He was president of the American Medical Association from 1919 to 1917. The younger of the brothers, he was born in 1R55 after his family had settled in Rochester. At E9 he received his MR. from Northwestern University and the next year entered the Mayo clinic. He and his wife, Edith Graham, were the parents of eight' children. It is his son, Eharles William, who alone carries on the Mayo tradition at Rochester today. Dentistry was one ofthe minor fields in which he took an active interest. it was through his efforts that the scope of the Mayo Eoundation was broadenedtoinclude dentalas wellas medicalfellows. He was a lecturing professor at the University until 1995 when he was made professor emeritus. Roth he and his hrother held honorary degrees at Minnesota. His death on May EE, 1999, broke the fraternal bonds which for EU years had been the guiding spirit of the Mayo clinic. l fi .. I. t iii ' 'fi 4 i .I . ' i My brother and 1- Rr. Will and Rr. Eharlie. As boys they shared a common ideal. As men they built, together, a center where that ideal took form and grew. With an understanding so full that it encompassed every thought and action of their professional lives, they stood before the world not as two great men, egual in accomplishment, but as hrothers united in achievement. They were not alike. They neither looked alike nor spoke alike. Although their purposes and hopes were shared, they did not think alike, Une was the perfect complement of the other, and the harmony of their union was only increased hy their difference. Ur. William Mayo was not a large man, but the austerity of his presence, the firm line of his chin, the serious depth of his eyes. made it impossible to think of him as small, Even when he smiled or pointed up his clearly ordered comments with a joke, he had an air of dignified reserve. Rr. Charlie liked to laugh. He would chuckle and tell stories and slap his friends heartily on the hack without shadow of restraint. He enjoyed people, Rr. Will respected them. Rot though he made his hearers laugh, his rambling speeches never lacked a point. With a shrewd philosophy behind his wit, he said exactly what he meant and exactly what Rr. Will would have said in a very different way. With their father, from whom they inherited the talent and character that made surgeons and scientists of them both, they founded the Rochester center. As the family clinic grew, money began to accumulate, as Ur. Will said, in spite of us. No one paid THE MAYR5 WITH PRESIDENT REIUSEVELT