University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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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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Dr. Clinton Wayne Kelly == LINTON WAYNE KELLY, was born in Henry County, Ken- . ». ney tucky, February, the eleventh, 1844. He received his early ie ) education in the schools of Eminence, New Castle, George- A town and Harrodsburg, Kentucky. a At the beginning of the Civil War, when but a lad of can JJ seventeen years, he entered the Confederate Army and was Captain on Gen. Giltner’s Staff in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry. He re- mained in the army two years and then acceded to the wishes of his par- ents to resume his education. To have remained in the States would have necessitated his taking the Oath of Allegiance and this he was unwilling to do. In consequence, he went to Canada and there began the study of medicine at Queen’s College, Kingston, Ontario, in 1863. Remaining in this school but one year, he then entered McGill, at Montreal from which school he graduated with highest honors in 1867, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medical Science, also that of Master of Surgery. In the fall of that year he went to Germany where he studied under the most learned men of Europe for five semesters. In 1869 he returned to Louisville and began the practice of his profession. In 1870 Dr. Kelly was elected professor in the Kentucky School of Medicine. In 1871 he also accepted the Chair of Anatomy in the Louisville Medical College which position he held in conjunction with the former Chair as the two schools were for a time affiliated. In 1876 the Louis- ville Medical College withdrew from the Kentucky School of Medicine, and Dr. Kelly remained with the former institution. In the Louisville Medical College Dr. Kelly was Lecturer on Anatomy throughout its ex- istence, also at different times lectured on Medicine, Theory and Practice, Surgery and Physical Diagnosis of the Faculty. Dr. Kelly was Dean for fifteen years and at its merger with the Hospital College of Medicine in the fall of 1907 he maintained the deanship there likewise. He has always worked for the combination of the Medical Schools of Louisville and when this was accomplished September the first, 1908, he was elected a Professor of Anatomy. Dr. Kelly is a man of strong personality, widely read, and has been conceded by the thousands of students to whom he has lectured to be a great teacher. He possesses to a remarkable degree the ability to know and call by name the members of his classes.

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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.