Uniformed School of Nursing students entering their junior year receive their nursing caps from upper-class students. School of Nursing dean, classmates, and faculty members are also present.
Glen R. Gale using a microscope to study organisms in a laboratory. At age 19, Gale discovered an unnamed organism with remarkable killing powers against dangerous fungi. After graduation from Duke University in 1953 (Ph.D.), Gale went on to serve with...
Miss Goff, chair of the Honor Council, and Mrs. Rachel Ann McSwain Harrell, President of the Nursing Student Government Association, hand lighted candles to the freshmen students after they are capped.
Lenox Baker graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1933. He served as professor of orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. He was the chief of the Division of Orthopedics (Department of Surgery) from 1937 to 1967.
Phyllis Jane Mertz was president of the preclinical class and a member of the School of Nursing class of 1952. The dean at this time was Margaret Pinkerton (1939-1946).
Josiah Charles Trent received his undergraduate degree from Duke in 1934. From 1939 to 1948 he was on the house staff and assistant professor of surgery in charge of thoracic surgery. He died in 1948. The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation and...