Title:

Frank B. Rogers and the NLM Board of Regents

Date:

[20 March 1957]

Description:

Back row standing: Dr. Ernest Volwiler, Dr. Jean A. Curran, Dr. Benjamin Spector, Dr. William S. Middleton, Dr. John T. Wilson, Major General S. B. Hays, Dr. Basil G. Bibby, Dr. Worth B. Daniels, Dr. Champ Lyons, DeBakey, Major General D. C. Ogle, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., and Lt. Colonel Rogers.. Front row seated: Dr. Leroy E. Burney, Mary Louise Marshall, Rear Admiral B. W. Hogan, L. Quincy Mumford.. First meeting of NLM's Board of Regents. Held at the Army Medical Museum in Washington, DC, one of the primary agenda items was determining a new permanent location of the Library. The pros and cons of about 10 locations were discussed and as part of the following meeting one month later on April 29, most of the regents went on a bus tour of several of the locations before ultimately deciding (with DeBakey's encouragement) to house the Library on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Original Repository:

The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Agenda and minutes of the first meeting of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine (including "Consideration of site for new building"), 1957
Minutes of the second meeting of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine (including attachments), 1957

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. A017133

Legacy ID:

FJBBDP

NLM ID:

101743405X52

Profiles Collection:

The Michael E. DeBakey Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X52

Story Section:

Supporting the Medical Enterprise: DeBakey and National Library of Medicine