DOROTHY CARPENTER MEDICAL ARCHIVES
The
Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives spent most of fiscal year 2001-2002
preparing for the celebration of the Medical School's centennial scheduled for
the fall of 2002. One feature of the centennial was the publication of
a coffee table book, Wake Forest University: One Hundred Years of Medicine - the Legacy of Yesterday,
the Promise of Tomorrow, illustrating the School's first hundred years in
pictures drawn from the Archives' files. The archivists worked all year with the
book's committee members to find, select, and identify pictures that vividly
capture the Medical School's story. The archivists were also very involved in
the planning for the centennial display to be mounted in the lobby of the
Nutrition Building. Working with an experienced museum display
builder, the archivists stored the display objects, borrowed a model of
the original campus, picked out pictures for the timeline, and edited and
verified all copy used in the display.
Drawing on the Archives' growing audio files of taped interviews of retired
faculty and staff discussing their tenures at the Medical School, the Archives
decided to offer a selection of these oral histories for sale.
The Medicine as a Profession course chose, as its second-year research
project topic, to require the students to write a paper on some person, notable
achievement, or department's history in the first 100 years of the
School's life. The archivists worked very closely with the MAAP coordinators to
select appropriate topics and then with the students when they began their
research.
Use of the Archives
by students increased dramatically this year due to the MAAP paper on the History of Medicine
at Wake Forest.
The Archives also conducted research for the American Neurological
Association (ANA), Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI), and the Society of
Neurological Surgeons (SNS) (number of requests found under the category
"Community").
The following collections were added to the Archives during 2001-2002 for a
total of 6.625 new linear feet:
1. J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging. Color
photographs of construction and Claude Pepper Traveling Exhibit. 0.375 linear
feet
2. Felts, John. Eighty-one articles by
Chester Davis, investigative health reporter for Journal/Sentinel newspaper;
research notes on textile disease; pamphlets on community health survey. 1.25
linear feet
3. James, George W. Dermatology patient
lantern slides, teaching color transparencies; museum objects – Baumanometer,
Bovie machine, and ultra-violet lamp. 1.25 linear feet
4. New Subject Files
McCreight, Charles
– notes from interview with medical student; professor in anatomy department
McLemore, George – 1904 alumnus
Wake Forest History
– compiled by J. Edwin Hendricks, professor of history on Reynolda campus
5. Synapse Photographs. Black and white
photographs taken for old Synapse hospital newsletter. 3.75 linear feet
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