Helen Forbes collection on medical wives 1947-1969

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Helen Forbes collection on medical wives 1947-1969

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This collection documents some of Helen Forbes's activities as a medical faculty wife in the mid-twentieth century. Papers include lists of which faculty wives were responsible for daily student teas; account books and statistics on attendance at teas; newspaper clippings and other information on the annual Aesculapian Frolics; bylaws and a small amount of information and newspaper clippings on the activities of the Medical Dames/Wives; lists of married students; and a recetion for the retirement of Medical Dean Vernon Lippard in 1967 that Mrs. Forbes helped to organize. Among the items is a Yale Medical Wives Association certificate conferring the degree of P.H.T. (putting husband through) to wives of graduating medical students.

.5 linear feet (1 box).

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Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350211

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Yale Medical Dames.

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Lippard, Vernon W., 1905-....

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Yale university. School of medicine

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James D. Kenney was attending physician, Yale New Haven Hospital, 1968-2007; president, medical staff, 1976-1977; attending physician, Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven; associate dean for postgraduate and continuing medical education, Yale University School of Medicine, 1978-2001; clinical professor of medicine; and editor of The Medical Letter. From the description of School of Medicine, Yale University, records of James D. Kenney as associate dean for postgraduate and continuing ...

Yale Medical Wives Association.

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Forbes, Helen Allen, 1906-2003

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Helen Allen Forbes, wife of medical professor and assistant/associate dean for education, Thomas Rogers Forbes, was a leader among medical faculty wives, organizing daily afternoon teas served by faculty wives to medical students; acting as a perennial sponsor and advisor for the annual Aesculapian Frolic, a benefit dance held by first year medical students; and serving as a sponsor for the Medical Dames or Medical Wives, an organization for wives of medical students. Yale Medical D...

Forbes, Thomas Rogers, 1911-....

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Thomas Rogers Forbes was born in New York City on January 5, 1911. He received a B.A. (1933) and a Ph.D. (1937) from the University of Rochester. Before World War II, he taught anatomy at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the faculty of Yale University in 1945, where he remained until his death in 1988. Forbes also served as assistant dean, 1948-1960, and associate dean, 1960-1970, of the Yale School of Medicine. From the description of Thomas Rogers Forbes papers, 1925-1989 (inclu...

Yale Dames.

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