Members of the physical therapy class of 1950 in the basement of Duke Hospital (Physical Therapy department). An unknown physical therapist is in the original treatment pool with a polio patient.
Duke faculty and hospital staff in the amphitheater. (Left to right, Row 1) Watt Eagle, Mary Poston, Julian Ruffin, Nell Paschall, Lillie Pladman, Mary Stokes. (Row 2) Durena Wetmore, Carrie Sykes, Annie H. Campbell, Lillian Trevathan, Susan...
D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
School of Medicine students performing the student-faculty show or a mock clinic. The annual student-faculty show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke.
McGovern graduated from Duke University in 1945 (B.S. and M.D.). He served on the Duke Hospital house staff from 1948 to 1949. He received the Markle Award in 1950. The McGovern-Davison Children's Health Center at Duke University is named in honor...
School of Medicine Dean Wilburt C. Davison (looking at camera) dining with students and colleagues. This dinner is likely at Turnage's Barbecue, a popular local destination during the 1950s.
Department of Medicine Staff. (Left to right, row 1) James P. Hendrix, Julian Meade Ruffin, Elijah Eugene Menefee, Jr., Elbert L. Persons, Eugene A. Stead, J. Lamar Callaway, William McNeal Nicholson, Oscar Hansen-Pruss, Edward S. Orgain....
School of Medicine students performing the student-faculty show or a mock clinic. The annual student-faculty show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke.