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

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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

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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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However, with this attack of growing pains, our patient noted pyrexia, for on Memorial Day, in May of that year, a Hre broke out in the old school on Love-joy street. Now, as might well be imagined, a Hre in a. medical school is something to write back home about. Those students who happened to live in the vicinity rushed down to try to help rescue equipment. Dr. Robert Benson, then Professor of Pathology, went to his laboratory on the second floor and tried to save some of his specimen bottles and slide boxes by 'throwing them into the waiting arms of medical students on the ground below. However, many of the articles were missed and fell into the garden of an old German who lived next door and didn't like the school anyway, and for the next several weeks, he was picking pieces of pathological foetuses and tumor specimens from his potatoes. ln these early days of the school, if a professor needed supplies, he simply bought them himself and sent the bill in later. Dr. CPopj Allen was Professor of Anatomy and had bought some lab. coats with large pink stripes which everybody in the department dis- liked. During the Hre, one of the lab. technicians Cname withheldj rushed in, gathered up the detested coats and threw them in the blaze. lf Dr. Allen should chance to glance this way, he may hnd out.for the Hrst time what happened to- his lab. coats. The day following the fire, the insurance adjusters who were making an appraisal of the damage, chanced to venture an inquiring nose into the dissect- ing room, getting a whiff of the still-smouldering homo sapiens, whereupon they P PP NURSES' HOME, 1927 U l I Y J, 1-Y '5.-f'?h 1237? 711120 uu9 491