1950

• Books and Journals: 29,000
• Current Periodicals: 419
• Tuition: Virginia $400, Other: $800
• Number of Students: 275

• The Bursar's Office no longer returns fine money to the Medical Library, resulting in an annual loss of about $150.
• Additional storage space in Cabell Hall Attic required for Medical Libary
• Surgical instruments belonging to an 1831 graduate are donated.
• Dr. Beverly Smith, speaking for the Library Committee, says the Medical Library needs more space, more help, and more funds.
• Thirty men of the first year class are WWII veterans.
• First Staige Davis Blackford Memorial Lecture presented.

Medical School Class of 1950

Anatomy class

Henry Mulholland

Roy Beazley, Director of Nurses

Blue Ridge Hospital opens new West Wing

Capping Ceremony for Nursing School Class of 1950

Dr. Harvey Jordan and Miss Russell

1951

• Books and Journals: 31,000
• Current Periodicals: 500
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

• Dr. S. H. Watts has presented the Library with a five-volume edition of Galen's House of Guinta.
• The 8th Evacuation Hospital Unit has given the Library a collection of hand-made replicas of surgical instruments discovered in the ruins of Pompeii and Heraculaneum.
• Medical Library reports that Dr. Glendy has given the Library a set of surgical instruments belonging to an 1831 graduate of the UVa School of Medicine.

Medical School Class of 1951

Vernon W. Lippard, Dean of the School of Medicine

Aerial view of the UVa Medical complex

Learning the nursing arts through observation

Student nurse checks with her mentor

University assigns medical students to the Ranges

1952

• Books and Journals: n/a
• Current Periodicals: n/a
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

Medical School Class of 1952

Mad(?) Scientists Dr. William Parson and Dr. Kenneth Crispell in Research Labs

Medical student "works up a patient"

What UVa nurses hear, speak, and see

UVa Hospital’s Newborn Unit

1953

• Books and Journals: 27,819
• Current Periodicals: 450
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

• A new X-Ray Emergency Room opens for patients on Wednesday, April 29th.
• University Hospital starts small lending library of 350 books on Wards L and I.
• Recognizing the Library's need for financial support, Dean Vernon Lippard stated, “There is only from $3,000 to $4,000 a year available to the Library; its minimum requirement is $10,000 a year.”

Dr. Edwin P. Lehman retires as Chief of Surgery after 25 years of service to the University

In February, Dr. Thomas H. Hunter takes over as Dean of the School of Medicine

Medical School School Class of 1953

Nursing School Class of 1953

Dr. E. Cato Drash (with Miss Louise Rea and Dr. George R. Minor) wage a surgical war in an effort to eradicate pulmonary tuberculosis

1954

• Books and Journals: 39,000
• Current Periodicals: 550
• Tuition: Virginia $400, Other $800
• Number of Students: 285

• Medical Library receives alumni gift of $4,043.65.
• First class of the Baccalaureate Program of Nursing graduates.
• A lending library for the use of staff and patients is started. Two book cases are set up on Wards I and L.
• Hospital Auxiliary, formerly the Hospital Circle, celebrates 50 years of service.

Medical School Class of 1954

Progress continues on the Barringer Wing

Edward Hipp opens Vessel Bank for the preservation of human arteries

William Muller and Thomas Hunter

C. Bruce Morton, Head Professor of Surgery

John Lloyd Newcomb, 1851-1954, second president of the University

Benjamin W. Rawles

Medical School Reading Room

Hospital Director John Stacey outlines building program

1955

• Books and Journals: 41,500
• Current Periodicals: 600
• Tuition: Virginia $400, Other $800
• Number of Students: 285

• Thermometer breakage at Uva under study; over 15,000 thermometers issued in 10 months.
• Planning funds released for proposed $4.5 million multi-story central unit for UVa Hospital.
• Cerebral Palsy Clinic opens, first in the state.
• McKim Hall enlarged.
• University to acquire cobalt unit for cancer treatment.
• New oxygen system requires two miles of pipe.
• New 31-bed unit will open to provide above-average nursing care for the acutely ill and injured, and will set a pattern for the establishment of similar units throughout the country.

Medical School Class of 1955

Douglas Eastwood named Anesthesiology Chairman

Hospital Directory John Stacey points out features of the building program

Dr. Fletcher Woodward, advocate of seat belts, practices what he preaches

1956

• Books and Journals: 43,723
• Current Periodicals: 643
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

Medical School Class of 1956

Nursing students and their patients

Aerial view of UVa Medical School and “The Corner”

Medical Library Reading Room

Medical School Library

1957

• Books and Journals: n/a
• Current Periodicals: n/a
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

• First African-Americans graduate from UVa’s School of Medicine

Medical School Class of 1957

Evelyn Bacon, Acting Chairman, Department of Nursing

Edward Betram Nash, one of the two African-Americans in the Medical School Class of 1957

Edward Thomas Wood, one of the two African-Americans in the Medical School Class of 1957

Pink Ladies

School of Nursing Choral Group

1958

• Books and Journals: n/a
• Current Periodicals: n/a
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

• First African-Americans graduate from UVa’s School of Medicine

Medical School Class of 1958

T he Corner in 1958

Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new multi-story addition to UVa Hospital. From left to right: Dean Hunter, President Darden, Dr. Archer, Dr. Mulholland, and Director Stacey

Byrd S. Leavell named Assistant Dean

Henry Bearden Mulholland retires as Assistant Dean

Margaret G. Tyson appointed first Dean of the School of Nursing

1959

• Books and Journals: 51,500
• Current Periodicals: 750
• Tuition: Virginia $500, Other $1000
• Number of Students: 304

• Total annual appropriations for new equipment is $5000.
• Rare books by Galenad Vesalius are exhibited.
• Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery is granted full accreditation for residency training--the first and only program in Virginia.
• Hospital Auxiliary contributes $10,000, which is used in part to purchase “electronic equipment for recording heart action.”
• The School of Nursing Baccalaureate Degree Program is the first to be accredited in Virginia.

Medical School Class of 1959

Construction of multi-story addition

Colgate W. Darden, Jr. transfers presidency to Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.

Construction of multi-story addition

First hemodialysis unit at UVa

Department of Physical Therapy adds a tank for hot tubbing that is useful for polio and arthritic patients