Public Health Survey Records 1925-1947

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Public Health Survey Records 1925-1947

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Harry J. Sears was first chair and professor in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Oregon Medical School. He was the only bacteriologist in the State when he arrived in Portland. He began as professor for the medical school where he organized its first department of bacteriology and was an instructor in both bacteriology and chemistry. He helped to establish the state civil service merit system of examinations and was first director of the merit system. Dr. Sears was born in Daviess County, Missouri, where he attended a one room grade school. He received a B.A. in 1911, and an M.A. in 1912, both from Stanford University. Sears retired in 1956 after serving as the head of the bacteriology department for 38 years. He died at the age of 77.

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Harry J. Sears was first chair and professor in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Oregon Medical School. He was the only bacteriologist in the State when he arrived in Portland from Berkeley, California. He began as professor for the medical school when it was still located at 23rd and Lovejoy Streets in 1919, where he organized its first department of bacteriology. He was among the first small contingent of faculty at the school where he was an instructor in both ...

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George Earle Chamberlain (b.1913), grandson and namesake of the former governor and senator of Oregon, son of otolaryngologist Dr. Charles Thomson Chamberlain. He received a BA from the University of Oregon in 1936, and an MD from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1938. Chamberlain served as captain and resident physician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during WWII. He began serving in 1941, when he was stationed in New York, N. Y.,at the New York Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary. He ...