UVa Health System Scrapbook: The 1960s
1960
- Books and Journals: 53,000
- Current Periodicals: 800
- Tuition: Virginia $490, Other $980
- Students: 304
- The Hospital Auxiliary gives $20,000 to UVa Hospital.
- The new addition is the largest project ever financed by the state: $6.5 million, with 276,000 square feet.
- Miss Roy Beazley honored by the Virginia State Nurses’ Association.
- The memorabilia of Dr. William Kerr, a student in 1826, is exhibited in the Medical School Library.
- The Administration-House Staff Softball Series is now tied.

- Medical School Class of 1960
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- Peoples Drug Store donates a 103-pound candy bar to the Children's Rehabilitation Center
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- The Mary Stamps Suhling Research Laboratories are now in use
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- The Surgical Suite provides twelve major operating rooms
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- The Internal Medicine Department, ca. 1960
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- Medical Center Hospital, dedicated in 1960, provides 682 beds and bassinets
1961
- Books and Journals: 54,700
- Current Periodicals: n/a
- Tuition: n/a
- Students: n/a
- "First-rate medical education, patient care, and research cannot be maintained without good medical research libraries." - Dr. William Moll, Library Director
- "We must provide adequate space for our medical library, which is simply bulging at the seams." - Dean Hunter
- Medical School Class of 1961

- New hospital completed April 14, 1961, providing 682 beds and bassinets

- Dr. Moll (the new Library Director) with Drs. Paquin and Kindred
- The new multi-story under construction

- Aerial view of the hospital complex
1962
- Books and Journals: 56,733
- Current Periodicals: n/a
- Tuition: n/a
- Number of Students: n/a

- Medical School Class of 1962

- Doing research in the Medical Library

- Nursing students in and around Hospital Grounds

- School of Nursing Officers
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- Henry Bearden Mulholland, UVa School of Medicine, 1920; UVa Professor, 1922-1962

- Dr. Wilhelm Moll has joined the Faculty of the School of School of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Librarian of the Medical Library
1963
- Books and Journals: 55,000
- Current Periodicals: 825
- Tuition: n/a
- Number of Students: n/a
- Miss Margaret Weakley hired as the first Serials Librarian for the Medical Library.
- Medical Wives compile Kitchen Operations to benefit the Medical Library Fund.

- Medical School Class of 1963

- "K" Unit Opens as the New Intensive Care Area

- A New Pump shows technology at the forefront here in the University Hospital

- Drs. Wilhelm Moll, Albert J Paquin, Jr., and James E. Kindred in front of the old Medical Library

- William Lamm, Hospital Director of Security, gets John Stacy's fingerprints while Dean Crispell observes the new ID card process
- A view of the soda fountain in the new Hospital Snack Bar
1964
- Books and Journals: 70,000
- Current Periodicals: 1,250
- Tuition: Virginia $535, Other $1,100
- Number of Students: 304
- New Medical Library drive officially launched.
- Medical Library Building Committee begins work on selecting a site for the new Medical Library.
- Medical Wives compile cookbook to aid fund drive for the new Medical Library.
- Get a new car loan for as little as $53.15 a month; a $2,400 car with 1/3 cash or trade--SEE YOUR CREDIT UNION Tel. 2366
- The Medical School Library is presented with an eighteenth-century treatise on the human ear.
- The first Robley Dunglison Award given to Edward Crawley.

- Medical School Class of 1964

- Annual School of Nursing Ball

- Dr. James Kindred Retires

- Drs. William Muller and Munsey Wheby

- Annie Lipscomb cited by the Seven Society for loyalty and devotion to the University

- Kenneth Crispell becomes the seventh Dean of the Medical School

- Wilhelm Moll in the attic of Cabell Hall

- Carl Speidel retires after a record 44 years
1965
- Books and Journals: 70,000
- Current Periodicals: 1,250
- Tuition: Virginia: $550, Other $1190
- Number of Students: 304
- Dialysis Center is being developed.
- Camp is initiated for boys with diabetes.
- The Medical Wives Club raises money for the new Medical Library from the sale of a cookbook, Kitchen Operations.
- The Medical Library has three professional librarians.
- The School of Nursing diploma program is to be terminated.
- Charges for daily hospital care which includes room, board, nursing, and other routine services, will be increased an average of $3 per day. (The current rate for semi-private accommodations is $17-19.)
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- Medical School Class of 1965

- Edward Cawley, Chairman of the Department of Dermatology
- This collection of disposable items includes tubes, drains, catheters, needles, and diapers, but no disposable surgical gloves
- Dr. R.H. Gourley, Professor of Pharmacology and Dr. Welhelm Moll, Medical Librarian, examine a one-hundred-year-old manuscript

- R.G.J. Galasso uses newly installed electron microscope
1966
- Books and Journals: 67,319
- Current Periodicals: 1,268
- Tuition: n/a
- Number of Students: n/a
- “The concepts of ‘the university without walls’ and the lifetime role of the practicing physician as a scholar and teacher espouses a philosophy that I believe we should try to make a reality. Modern communications advances should be of great assistance in our efforts to link medical centers, community hospitals of all sizes, and individual practicing physicians.” —Charles L. Crockett, Jr., Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Professor of Internal Medicine
- "The plans for the medical library are progressing … It is difficult to plan a building that will be functional five years after completion. Our consultants tell us that the electronic age of communications is here and much of the space should be reserved for “electronic gadgetry.” —Dean of the School of Medicine , Kenneth R. Crispell
- Medical School Class of 1966

- Zula Mae Baber Bice, Dean of the School of Nursing

- UVa Medical Center

- “The Corner,” circa 1966
- Medical Library’s current books and periodials
1967
- Books and Journals: 69,834
- Current Periodicals: 1,318
- Tuition: n/a
- Number of Students: n/a
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- Medical School Class of 1967
- Vivian Pinn, one of the first African-American women to graduate from the UVa School of Medicine
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- Nursing students hit the books

- School of Nursing Graduation, 1967

- Fire prevention poster
1968
- Books and Journals: 70,000
- Current Periodicals: 1,300
- Tuition: n/a
- Number of Students: n/a

- Medical School Class of 1968

- Aerial view of the University in 1968

- New Hospital Shuttle Bus

- Mrs. Stanton with one of the Hospital's new medication carts
- Dean of the School of Medicine, Kenneth R. Crispell
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- “Dr. Hedges is a man whose medical ability is matched only by his ability to outfish and outwalk all his residents, and who can calmly lean back and quote the first half of Book I of the 'Odyssey' in the original just for the pleasure of hearing Homer's thundering lines” —Joseph Vaughan, Professor of Humanities
1969
- Books and Journals: 73,000
- Current Periodicals: 1,360
- Tuition: Virginia. $550, Other $1,190
- Number of Students: 317
- Dr. Paul Barringer’s diplomas presented to the Medical Library.
- Dr. Wilhelm Moll compiles Basic Journal List for Small Hospital Libraries.
- School of Medicine, Class of 1969, donates a gift to the Medical Library Building Fund.
- Rare 1892 diplomas given to the Medical Library.

- Medical School Class of 1969
- Edward Hook, Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine
- John Jane, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery
- Joseph Larner, Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology
- Medical School Class Play: “Who's calling the shots?”
- The Medical Education Building takes shape
