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

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1, b 1' m.. ea' x 3 N N RM fe. X X NAM - sb, - gg 1 E gcgxmg X ffyylwx Eff' TE s ' ! DOERN BECHER HosP1TAL, l9Z6 got even sicker than our patient and promptly departed to make their estimation at a more respectable distance. When fall came, the new building on lVlarquam Hill was ready to be occupied and after being suitably dedicated and having a school catalogue placed in the cornerstone, classes were opened there. New class enrollment had grown to Hfty. lVlacKenZie's dream of assembling a'medical center around this single, lone build- ing seemed elevated to a remote plausibility. However, the following year, Dean Maclsfenzie passed away and was succeeded by Dr. Richard B. Dillehunt. The new dean lacked none of tthe energy or vision of the old, and our patient soon suffered a renewed and severe attack of the growing pains. The State Legislature was prompted to appropriate 35111000 for another building, and an equal amount was secured as- a gift from the General Education Board of New York Ca Rocke- feller-endowed philanthropic organizationj. In 1934, a new wing to the medical school was raised with these funds. It was four stories high, was twice as large as the Hrst building, and was httingly dedicated MacKenzie Hall. Lack. of transportation loomed large as an obstacle to progress on the hill. A road had been built, but the only way of getting to the top was by contrivance of one's own devising, usually some variation of the horseless carriage, or bicycle. The school owned an unwieldly old Acme trtuck which was used to take com- muters up and down the hill, and also provided the only mail service. Rain or fa'-,-'S' All 0' Q n ux6 1 '52 E501

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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

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shine, ice or snow, the old bus never missed a trip. Piloted by a Nu Sig, it spent its nights at the fraternity house, then at 29th and Belmont streets. On the 'hrst trip in, the passengers were naturally composed largely of the brothers while many of the rest were passed, turning in the rain at the end of the carline, waiting to be taken on the second trip. Of course, in the winter, the hill could become rather slippery and near-accidents occasionally occurred. Once, after a skid which he barely' stopped at the brinla of disaster, Lindsay McArthur looked around to rind the truck deserted except for the six-footer' who always sat beside him and who, on this occasion, was completely paralyzed. Lindsay 1V1cArthur really had a touching fondness for the old truck and just before Christmas this particular winter, the was concerned lest it might freeze, Now although this was during 'the depths of pro- hibition, the school had plenty of 50-cent alcohol, so he procured some of this from Mr. W. E. Gaines, the building superintendent, to use as anti-freeze. 1V1cArthur had started upstairs with live gallons of the medicinal spirits to meet the Nu Sig brothers who were waiting with small g1as3 conlainers. Half-way up, however, he again encountered Mr, Gaines who, knowing something of the ways of bovs, having been one once himself, tossed in some glycerine and zylol sludge from the path lab, adding that it was potent anti-freeze. In 1923, our patient grew by the addition on the hill of the Multnomah County Hospital, an institution whose genealogy will bear a bit of inspection. ln 1909, 1 OUT-PATIENT CLINIC, 1931 I ! pn ugh,-L' mise: :Rev E 51