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

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The North Carolina Baptist Hospital QNCBHJ in Win- ston-Salem, started by the Baptist State Convention, opened its 88-bed facility in 1923. ln 1935, believing there to be an oversupply of physi- cians, the American Medical Association proposed clos- ing all two-year medical schools. Because ofthis, in 1937, a state commission, with later support from an anony- mous benefactor, investigated the possibility of enlarging one of North CaroIina's two two-year medical schools. The administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill rejected the commission's offer to enlarge their two-year school. They were opposed to the benefac- tor's stipulation that the school be moved to Winston- Salem and mezged with the NCBH. Dr. Coy C. arpenter, dean of the two-year Wake Forest Medical School ttenure 1936-19633, recoginized W 4 , f ,ff I :Xt A above: The North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, circa 1923-25. right: An architect's drawing tabout 19401 shows the NCBH's entrance, as seen from above Hawthorne Fload. In the background is the posterior side of the pro- gohsed Fhovgmanfiriy Ai! i c oolo e icine. ot e - -f Q ld. , e . . left is the proposed West A 1 il ll I 1 155 I .' ' L-.I - Wing. HI :wi llllilir 11,-. 'grliga' --,',,.., , Tkqulirggfgg , 1-lily, itl l ,'k:,,re:' .N ffl . 9 11, Iv4f'l: E ' il li 1 , If Y I . L fa' I A2 ' L?-I rt ' - '1- If- ' t ' ..1-'. , f.f ,.'fi -...X . 4 - W P413 relist 1 1 4 . . .. .5-1 V. .ii 5 J fl -' w' 1, ' 5.13511 ,' ' !:'fx:Si'li,Q.V , ,Q f.- U, I dr - ! -,g:v:.ff I it 3. ,. -,tu x 41, 115 d 4 . H W 5 I ' . w'11 -X et J Qfjl I sit. 1 .4 sal -.N ' ' ts-gg V321 ' I ' 4 , ' 4 'Y' 1 , . 4 , V f sm. i . ,yfiigg-3, K .f AW- A .,, ,U 8 Y ' gnnvuuv 4. on ev-A.ARLn-u'rECTb i r ' ' '

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GROWTH Wake Forest College was founded by the North Carolina Baptist State Conven- tion in 1834 in Wake County near Raleigh. Intended to educate Baptists for the min- istry, the school gradually evolved to take on a larger educational role, becoming a prominent regional college of high aca- demic standards. above: the Alumni Building, completed 1905, housed the medical school from 1905 to 1932. The anatomy lab was on the top floor, in the right front room. g . elm above: The William Amos Johnson Building was named for an anatomy instructor killed in an automobile accident in 1927. The medical school occupied this building from 1932 until 1941. l Wake Forest Colleges economic hardships fol- lowing the Civil War 11861-1 8657 tempted the admin- istrators to establish a medical diploma mill as a means of adding revenue to the college. Because the proper quality of medical training could not be provided due to inadequate money and facilities, the idea was dismissed for about twenty years. ln the Fall of 1902, after nine years of scrutiny and fund-raising, the two-year Wake Forest Medical School was finally established. The first two deans of the medical school, Dr. Fred K. Cooke ttenure 1902-19059 and Dr. Watson S. Fiankin ttenure 1905-1909l, initiated a course of sound growth. A rigorous training program earned the school acceptance into the association of Ameri- can Medical Colleges atter only two years of exist- ence, and in 1908 the school became one of only eleven tout of 1605 U.S. medical schools requiring two years of college work prior to admission, These trends continued during the tenure of Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin, appointed dean in 1919. 7 -'Y-n. left: the first anatomy dissecting room was in the basement of the gymna slum. This photo, circa 1903-04. was contributed to the Medical School Arc hives by John B. Fleinhart. BGSM '43

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the opportunity and immediately sought the benefactor's und. In the late 1930's it was believed that ten million dollars were needed to established a four-year medical school. But the charitable fund, left in the will of the late Bowman Gray, consisted of only 18,500 shares of RJ, Reynolds Tobacco Co. B Common stock tvalued at 857200001 causing Wake Forest administrators to hesitate. None-the-less, the challenge of moving to Winston- Salem and merging with the NCBH was accepted on August 3, 1939. The stock was used as collateral tor a 1010 interest loan to build a six-story medical school adjoining the hospital, which was completed in September 1941. In 1942 the hospital fulfilled its initial obligation to the venture by completing the West Wing, expanding the hospital to 300 beds. above: This photo of the original on March 1941. The nurses home above: Coy C. Carpenter, MD, circa 1944. Pho- tograph by Flay W, Goodrich. February 1 , 1941, and published in the Wake Forest Alumni News Unity is in the left foreground. Egggmgglgwgggfggr-,. 'vsr 1-Ll a' 5 5 a E 'T 'mr 4.5, - , ,jf EEEL,haw-gEgE55EEpgg2:--.g LG- jf E E E Q : g..,.b:Y : E E E 5 E E -if-AQ .V Y I- ggi :1j,5Qg:35f...lf -7555: .1 t teenage ,Ai mtmtm - I5 'if i E E Q Aim -9'1 .-- ' EE :Age-xi j, W Ja . . mf' ' - -- - : ff , ' I -.1 ' . 4 Q A - above: This architects drawing tabout 19401 shows the front of the proposed Bowman Gray , School of Medicine, as seen from Everett Street. 9