Clinton Lee Compere (1911-1991) Papers 1954-1991

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Clinton Lee Compere (1911-1991) Papers 1954-1991

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Clinton Lee Compere was a professor of orthopedic surgery at Northwestern's Medical School and, as a founding member of Northwestern's Rehabilitation Engineering Program (REP), nationally recognized as an authority on rehabilitation engineering. His main focus was the improvement of prosthetic devices for the physically handicapped. Compere participated actively in the development of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) to one of the best rehabilitation hospitals in the country. The Clinton Compere papers include 11 boxes, spans the years from 1954 through 1991, and contains biographical materials, correspondence, grant and funding proposals, minutes and reports mainly of various committees and meetings, and publications by Compere and others.

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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Medical School

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The Northwestern University Medical School began as the medical department of Lind University (later Lake Forest University) in 1859, located at Randolph and Market Streets in Chicago. In 1864, the medical department became an independent school, the Chicago Medical College, housed in a building at 22nd and State Streets. The founder of the College, Nathan Smith Davis, was an innovator in medical education who wanted to establish a three-year program that went beyond the traditional...

Compere, Clinton L. (Clinton Lee), 1911-1991

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Clinton Lee Compere was born February 17, 1911 in Greenville, Texas to Edward L. Compere and Clara Davison Compere. He attended Baylor University in Texas from 1927 to 1928, but decided then to transfer to Northwestern's Medical School, where his older brother, Edward L. Compere, was an orthopedic surgeon. Clinton earned his B. S. degree in 1936 and his medical degree in 1937 at Chicago. In the following months he worked as a technical and research assistant, and in 1938...