Wake Forest School of Medicine - Gray Matter Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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The Wake Forest College School of Medicine was founded in 1902 through the perseverance of Dr, C.E. Taylor, President of Wake Forest Col- lege. As a two year medical school the first class enrolled 13 students, seven of whom lacked Dr. Taylor's perseverance and failed the first year, In 1941 the school moved to Winston-Salem and be- came a four year medical school associated with North Carolina Baptist Hospital. Along with the S600,000 acquired through a bequest of the late Bowman Gray, the Wake Forest College School of Medicine also acquired his name. Through the shrewd efforts of Coy Carpenter the Bowman Gray School of Medicine was firmly established and accepted 45 students to the four-year school in 1941. With the class of 1976 BGSM has awarded 1161 MD's. a-eflprf-+ X .34 :Zig S l f W-:U If i' .1 'K X09 ,f H 1, 'I ,, yt ' '-1' L, gl '47 N,-Y 4- -' '-Live, ,-2. f 4 , ' 1 2' - . Jt1T? im-fur,-.-M - ' . 1 at fx ? r . ,L an-Sgr, , V w-g A n Qld-hart, 'Q-fx af-Vive, deli' ' ' X. 'cgi ' QL . XV' 'i . ' :?LL. ??':-.D '35 we '-mis? - 'ir 4. s. is a 'Sb 'W-Sfa 'fgfy 8,1 ff, tv.: fav' 1. Aerial view of Bowman Gray School of Medicine-North Carolina Baptist Hospital in 1975. 9