University of Oregon School of Nursing - Lamp Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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acquisition and were shown Nlarquam lflill! A few years later, one of the cityis substantial citizens. an eminent and successful barrister named judge Marquam, bought 298 acres on the crest ol' the hill from the disillusioned' railroad. I-lere he built his home and a farm and laid out 'the rest into a subdivision which he called the Portland City l-lomestead. l-lis subdivision was nearly as successful as the railroad s plan since no city light, gas, water or suitable transportation was avail- able. Now Dr. llflaclienzie had been company doctor for the O.-W. R. 81 N. and was in personal acquaintance with their board of directors. lt was through this old contact that he persuaded the railroad to donate twenty acres of their land in l9l4 for use as the medical school campus. Our patient had somehow clung with a weakening grip to its class A rating, whereas the Willamette Medical department, now removed to Salem, had slipped to class Cv. Not for purposes of striking an average, our patient now absorbed the Willamette school. lt was about this time that our patient began having joint trouble, especially with the joint on Fourth and Burnside. There had been considerable swelling in this joint. The meager facilities of the People's Institute, though generously enlarged, were no longer adequate to accommodate the clinic patients. Accord- ingly in l9l6, the clinic was moved to a building at Fourth and jefferson streets and became known as the Portland Free Dispensary. A trained nurse was again added to the staff and the volume of patients grew. One day an elderly newsie MULTNOMAH COUNTY HOSPITAL on ZND AND HOOKER, 1910 U D a i og 3' Sui

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as st. smgaai ,, ! COMMUTERS' Bus, D8. LINDSAY MCARTHUR AT WHEEL Kiddies' tonsils and adenoids were snared without anesthetic. One winter, an average of eight smallpox cases was seen daily. The disease was very prevalent and the men contracted it from each other from their close association in the saloons of the neighborhood where many slept on the floor. Many inebriates came to the clinic and frequently one suddenly developed d. t.'s in the waiting room, startling the entire time-abiding assemblage with whooping and shouting. Still the patients came. ln the fall of 1911, an energetic man from Rush Medical College in the person of Dr. Richard B. Dillehunt joined the faculty as Professor of Anatomy, and in the following year, Dr. K. A. j. MacKenzie succeeded the retiring Dr. S. E. josephi as dean of the institution. The new dean was a man of vision and a prominent Portland physician. He was well aware of the plight of the school whose leader- ship he had just assumed and resolved on expansion and improvement. lt was toward this end that he secured the donation of twenty acres atop Marquam Hill to serve as a future campus for our patient, but thereby hangs a tale. lt was in the year 1883 in an eastern city that a group of directors of the O.-W. R. 81 N. Railroad were sitting around the conference table. They were in need of a site for machine shops and a depot for their projected new line from Portland to The Dalles. They placed their lingers on a map of Portland, pointing to a tract in the southwestern part of the city which was as yet unoccupied, and authorized its purchase. Imagine their surprise when they came to town to inspect their new ug-,,,,,:' E461

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1 1 ! MULTNOMAH COUNTY HosPiTAL, 1923 called St. Francis, who had a corner stand by the Portland Hotel, appeared at the dispensary. The boys treated his scabies and the old man was delighted. When- ever they passed his corner, he was pressingly friendly and wanted to- give them a paper, but to avoid embarrassment, they were rather forced to avoidj the old fellow to keep him from giving away his wares. But after he diedl in an old shack a few years later, he was found 'to be quite wealthy. He left his body to the school in gratitude. About this time, our patient began to have an acute exacerbation of growing pains. The dean saw the old school building, obsolete and inadequate, and had visions of a new building on Marquam Hill, but his idea was opposed and ridi- culed. He continued to promote his plan which became known as lV1acKenzie's Dream. The site was called impractical and the elusive but necessary sheckles for development were not forthcoming. Finally, however, the State Legislature was persuaded to appropriate 3110000 for a new school building. But this was not enough. Some more money had been raised privately, when the whole issue was brought up for discussion at a Chamber of Commerce dinner one evening. A heated debate followed in which the opposition seemed to be in the ascendancy and no solution seemed to be taking shape. During a pause in the discussion, julius Meier, who had been quietly moving about among the members, announced that he had secured a guarantee of the remaining required amount. ln all, private citizens gave over 325,000 . At last the dream was materializing, and the new building was to be ready for use in the fall of 1919. A Q '-.-gaze aaa-'1 aun auf' 1481