DeWitt C. Burkes papers, 1940-1958.

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DeWitt C. Burkes papers, 1940-1958.

Collection comprises correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and newsletters, and newspaper clippings relating to Dr. Burkes' work as a psychiatrist in Portland, Or., 1940-1958. It includes files of correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports on the Central Inspection Board, American Psychiatric Association; Morningside Hospital, Portland, Or.; North Pacific Society of Neurology and Psychiatry; and Portland Psychiatrists in Private Practice (organization). There is also correspondence about the beginnings of the Portland Chamber Orchestra Association and teaching materials relating to University of Oregon Medical School courses.

1.5 linear ft. (3 containers)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8084132

University of Oregon Libraries

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American Psychiatric Association. Central Inspection Board.

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Burkes, DeWitt C.

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DeWitt C. Burkes ( -1959) was a psychiatrist who practiced in Portland, Or. for thirty-one years, beginning in 1928. Dr. Burkes was a certified member of the American boards of neurology and psychiatry, and was very active in the medical field in Oregon. Among his many activities, he served on the Oregon State Board of Health for over sixteen years; on the search committee for the new superintendent of the Dammasch State Hospital; on the Central Inspection Board of the American Psychiatric Assoc...

North Pacific Society of Neurology and Psychiatry.

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University of Oregon. Medical School

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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 ...

Portland Chamber Orchestra Association (Portland, Or.).

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Morningside Hospital (Portland, Or.)

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Portland Psychiatrists in Private Practice.

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