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

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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

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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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, U sv ' 3 Qffm 353'-..e' 1157! ux0' T521 MEDICAL ScHooL CAMPUS, 1937 the hospital was located in an old building on the Canyon Road, and in the follow- ing year was moved to the remodeled old Smith residence on Second and Hooker streets at the foot of the stairs leading up the hill. Dr. Geary was County Physi- cian, Dr. I-l. R. Cliff his assistant, and Mrs. Emma E. jones, Superintendent. The old hospital was indeed quite an institution. lts capacity was 50 to 100 patients as occasion required, had one phone, no elevators, no adequate Hre escapes, and one of its most remarkable features was the roof garden. When necessity demanded, up to thirty patients could be placed in improvised wards on the roof, consisting of wooden floors and ceiling and canvas sides. Patients had an abun- dance of fresh air and heating was impossible. When it rained, there was always a puddle in the middle of the floor, and doctors had to don coats and boots to go from ward to ward. One interne recalls that the X-ray machine was out of order at the start of his service, but after many months, a new tube was secured and installed. When everything was ready, they took one picture which burned out the tube, and that was all the X-ray for that year. During the war while the internes were away, medical students called externes came down after school to do the work and slept there. Nurses' training started in 1910, three graduating in the first class. Three years later, nursing training was expanding and the undergraduates took over a two- story building next door as a nurse's home. The girls were on the tloor twelve hours a day and had their classes in the evening. lt required three years to com-