University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Dr. Thomas Crain Evans tucky February the ninth, 1860. He received his early ed- ucation in the schools of this County. At twenty years of age he taught school in his home County for one year. In 1882 he entered the Hospital College of Medicine at Louis- . ville, Kentucky and was graduated from this institution in 1884, receiving the aegree of Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation he went to Flemingsburg and became associated with Dr. Lucien Mce- Dowel in the practice of his profession. This relation existed until 1888 when he returned to Louisville. In 1889 he was elected Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Hospital Col- lege of Medicine, which position he held until 1894 when he accepted the Chair of Otology, Opthalmology and Laryngology in the Kentucky School of Medicine. At the organization of the Medical Department of the Ken- tucky University in November, 1889 he was elected to the same chair as held in the other school and was made Dean ot the Faculty. At the merger of the Kentucky University with the Medical De- partment of the University of Louisville in 1907 he was elected to the same Chair and was likewise made Dean of this Faculty. At the consolidation of all the Medical Schools of Louisville in Aug- ust of 1908, he was again given the Chair of Otology, Opthalmology and Laryngology and elected Dean of that Faculty. While Dr. Evans has been very successfully engaged in the practice of his profession since his location in Louisville in 1888, he has at the same time done much for medical education and its advancement. It was Dr. Evans who reported from a recent meeting of the Council of Educa- tion of the American Medical Association that the Medical Department of the University had been placed in Class “A.” This has been his goal and his efforts have been rewarded. Under the guidance of Dr. Evans, the Medica] Department of the University of Louisville now enjoys the distinction of being the largest Medical School in the world.

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Dr. William Hutson Wathen RILLIAM HUTSON WATHEN, was born in Marion County, Kentucky. He received his primary education in the district schools of this County, but because of the late Civil War was not permitted to enter college until about 1865. He then enrolled as a student in St. Mary’s College in Marion County, originally founded by the Jesuit priests. From this college p obtained the degree of Master of Arts. He then entered the Medical Department of the University of Louisville, from which school he obtain- ed the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1895 the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the great University of Notre Dame, at its Golden Jubilee. From his early entrance into the medical profession, he has been a constant contributor to medical literature, having written mainly upon abdominal surgery and gynecology. While a young man he was made President of the Kentucky State Medical Society; afterward he was Chairman of the Section of the Ameri- can Medical Association on Gynecology and Obstetrics, and presided at the meeting at Newport, R. I. In 1907 he delivered the oration on surgery be- fore the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, at Atlantic City, N. J. He was the representative from Kentucky to organize the Ninth Medical Congress, which met in Washington, D. C. in 1887. He is a charter member of the Southern Surgical and Genecological Association; of the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; a member since 1891 of the American Gynecological Society. He first located in Lexington, Kentucky, where he remained nearly two years, when he removed to Louisville. He very soon became interested in medical education, first in the capacity of an assistant in the Kentucky School of Medicine and the Louisville Medical College, then as a special teacher of clinical gynecology at the Louisville City Hospital. He was mainly responsible for the reorganization of the Kentucky School of Medi- cine in the fall of 1879. In this school he held the position of Dean and Treasurer, and was Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, later discon- tinuing his obstetrical work and confining himself to surgery. He has attended nearly all the meetings of the Association of Ameri- ean Medical Colleges and the Council on Education of the American Medi- cal Association, and has been an active worker in these two bodies. He has always advocated a higher standard of academic attainments for ad- mission to a medical college and a better curriculum; and was largely in- strumental in the adoption of the first requirements for admission for a higher standard, at the meeting of the American Medical College Associ- ation in New Orleans in 1908. He was earnest in his efforts to combine the medical colleges of Louis- ville, believing that by this means only could the State maintain its great prestige as a medical educational center. In this combination he was elect- ed Professor in the department of Abdominal Surgery and Gynecology.

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Editor's Preface N presenting this, the second edition of “The Colonel” to the tender mercies of the students, faculty and friends of the University of Louisville, it is with the hope that it will worthily fill its place in their hearts. We contribute this record of deeds and misdeeds with the wish that whatever uth —jj Of good this volume may contain, remain to keep green the memory of this year. To some it will, we hope, bring pleasant reminiscences made mel- low by the magic touch of time,—to others only grim reminders of toil and labor whose sting has been softened because they are a part of the past. Our future is not a cloudless sky, but even if cloudy, we have the balm in knowing that at least a few of those fleecy clouds in that chi- merical azure blue beyond, must have a silver lining. We leave, hoping that the good-will and friendship existing between the departments re- main as ripe and sincere as it has been pleasant to us. Senate