Records of the chairman, 1970-1990.

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Records of the chairman, 1970-1990.

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Records of the Chairman of the Committee on By-Laws and Ordinances of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1970-1990. The bulk of the records are from Robert S. Pressman (1973-1977) and Palmer Howard Futcher (1979-1990). Included are agenda and minutes from meetings of Council and the Committee on By-Laws and Ordinances, and drafts and revisions of the Ordinances and By-Laws of the College of Physicians. Also included are memoranda and correspondence from College presidents George I. Blumstein, Brooke Roberts, and Robert Austrian, and Executive Director William F. Chaveas. Also documented in the collection is the role played by the Committee on By-Laws and Ordinances in the 1990 re-organization of the College of Physicians; during this year, an Ad Hoc Committee on Governance, with the aid of the Committee on By-Laws and Ordinances, drafted the Ordinances and By-Laws of 1990, which differed significantly from previous versions.

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Council.

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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The Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine was established in 1976 to promote to the scholarly community the rich historical resources of the College's historical library and the Mütter Museum. The Institute sponsors conferences, occasional seminars, and short-term travel grants to researchers who require the resources of the museum and library. According to the History of Science Society, “the Wood Institute is the historical programming arm of the College of Phys...

Futcher, Palmer Howard

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Palmer Howard Futcher, AB, 1932, Harvard University; MD, 1936, Johns Hopkins University, specialized in internal medicine. He completed a medical quarter at the Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital as a fourth year medical student from Johns Hopkins University. Futcher later was on the faculties of Washington University Medical School from 1946 to 1948, Johns Hopkins University from 1948 to 1967, and the University of Pennsylvania after 1967. From the description of Lecture n...

Pressman, Robert S. (Robert Sydney), 1911-

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on By-Laws and Ordinances.

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On 26 Sept. 1967, Francis C. Wood, president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia appointed John H. Gibbon and Richard A. Kern to serve on a "Committee on Revision of the By-Laws". The committee gave its first report to Council at a meeting held on 27 Feb. 1968. By 1970, the committee's name was shortened to the "Committee on By-Laws". The "Committee on Ordinances and By-Laws" is listed as an official standing committee of the College of Physicians in the 1972 Or...

Roberts, Brooke

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Blumstein, George I. (George Isaac), 1904-1989

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Austrian, Robert

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Chaveas, William F. (William Francis), 1922-

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Ad Hoc Committee on Governance.

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