University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Hippocratean Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE 1953-54 HIPPOCRATEAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH A ;;;» A, PITTSBURGH • PENNSYLVANIA A

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William S. McEllroy. B.S.. M.D., Sc.D., LL.D. Dean In 1819, the Western University of Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittshurs h, was cre- ated by an Act of the General Assembly as the successor to the Pittsburgh Academy which had pre- viously been chartered in 1787. The first Principal of the Western University was the Reverend Robert Bruce. In his inaugural address, delivered in 1822. he expressed the hope that the University might soon establish a School of Medicine. On June 30, 1883 a charter was granted creatnig the Wesieni Pennsylvania Medical College and the first class of twenty-one students graduated in 1887. The Western Pennsylvania Medical College became the Medical Department of the University of Pittsburgh in 1908 and moved to the University campus in 1910. Since then the physical facilities ha ve greatly expanded and I feel con- fident that the proposed new Medical School will be realized in the near future. However, marble halls do not make a real Medical School but rather a competent and faithful faculty and student body. Any institution is known by the quality of its product. I am quite con- fident that the class graduating this June will carry on in the highest ideals of medicine and bring credit to its Alma Mater. ;( . .S. McEllroy Ml