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ADDENDA

Surgeons General of the Army Medical Department

1. Benjamine Church, Director General and Chief Physician of the Hospital of the Army, 

July 27, 1775–October 17, 1775.

2. John Morgan, Director General and Physician in Chief of the American Hospital, October 

17, 1775_January 9, 1777.

3. William Shippon, Jr., Director General of the Military Hospitals of the Continental Army, 

April 11, 1777_January 3, 1781.

4. John Cochran, Director General of the Military Hospitals of the Continental Army, January 17, 

1781_November 3, 1783.

5. James Craik, Physician and Surgeon of the United States Army, July 19, 1798_June 15, 1800.

6. James Tilton, Physician and Surgeon of the United States Army, June 11, 1813_June 15, 1815.

7. Joseph Lovell, Surgeon General, United States Army, April 18, 1818_October 17, 1836.

8. Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Lawson, Surgeon General, November 30, 1836_May 15, 

1861.

9. Brevet Brigadier General Clement Alexander Finley, Surgeon General, May 15, 1861_April 

14, 1862.

10. Brigadier General William Alexander Hammond, Surgeon General, April 25, 1862_August 

18, 1864.

11. Brevet Major General Joseph E. Barnes, Surgeon General, August 22, 1864_June 30, 1882.

12. Brigadier General Charles Henry Crane, Surgeon General, July 3, 1882_October 10, 1883.

13. Brigadier General Robert Murray, Surgeon General, November 23, 1883_August 6, 1886.

14. Brigadier General John Moore, Surgeon General, November 18, 1886_August 16, 1890.

15. Brigadier General Jedediah Hyde Baxter, Surgeon General, August 16, 1890_December 4, 

1890.

16. Brigadier General Charles Sutherland, Surgeon General, December 23, 1890_May 29, 1893.

17. Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg, Surgeon General, May 30, 1893_June 8, 1902.

18. Brigadier General William Henry Forwood, Surgeon General, June 8, 1902_September 7, 

1902.

19. Brigadier General Robert Maitland O’Reilly, Surgeon General, September 7, 1902_January 

14, 1909.

20. Brigadier General George Henry Torney, Surgeon General, January 14, 1909_December 27, 

1913.

21. Major General William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General, January 16, 1914_October 3, 1918.

22. Major General Merritte Weber Ireland, The Surgeon General, October 4, 1918_May 31, 1931.
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23. Major General Robert Urie Patterson, The Surgeon General, June 1, 1931_May 31, 1935.

24. Major General Charles Ransom Reynolds, The Surgeon General, June 1, 1935_May 31, 1939.

25. Major General James Carre Magee, The Surgeon General, June 1, 1939_May 31, 1943.

26. Major General Norman T. Kirk, The Surgeon General, June 1, 1943_May 31, 1947.

27. Major General Raymond W. Bliss, The Surgeon General, June 1, 1947_May 31, 1951.

28. Major General George E. Armstrong, The Surgeon General, June 1, 1951_ .

POST COMMANDERS

Walter Reed Army Hospital

NAME RANK CORPS YRS OF COMMAND

Borden, William Cline Major MC Oct. 10, 1898 to June 15, 1907*

Arthur, William H. Colonel MC 1 June 1908 to 11 July 1911

Richard, Charles Colonel MC Sept. 1911 to Sept. 1912

Birmingham, H.P. Colonel MC Oct. 1912 to Aug. 1913

Fisher, Henry C. Colonel MC 1 Aug. 1913 to 11 May 1914

Phillips, John L. Colonel MC May 12, 1914 to 18 Sept. 1915

Ashburn, Percy M. Major MC 19 Sept. 1915 to 5 Oct. 1916

Mason, Charles P. Colonel MC 6 Oct. 1916 to 27 Nov. 1917

Truby, Willard F. Colonel MC 28 Nov. 1917 to 27 Aug. 1918

Schreiner, Edward R. Colonel MC 27 Aug. 1918 to 15 Mar. 1919

Army Medical Center

Glennan, James D. Brig. General MC Mar. 1919 to Mar. 1926

Kennedy, James M. Brig. General MC Mar. 1926 to Dec. 1929

Darnall, Carl. R. Brig. General MC 12 Dec. 1929 to 31 Dec. 1931

Truby, Albert E. Brig. General MC Jan. 1932 to 31 July 1935

DeWitt, Wallace C. Brig. General MC Aug. 1935 to 25 Dec. 1939

Metcalfe, Raymond F. Brig. General MC 26 Dec. 1939 to 31 Jan. 1941

Marietta, Shelly U. Major General MC 1 Feb. 1941 to 9 Feb. 1946
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Beach, George C. Major General MC Mar. 1946 to Nov. 1948

Streit, Paul H Major General MC 17 Jan. 1949 to

* S.O. #239, Oct. 10, 1898; S.O #76, April 1, 1907

PRESIDENTS AND COMMANDANTS

OF THE ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL

1893 _ 1898 Colonel Charles Henry Alden

1898 _ 1901 [School closed during Spanish-American War]

1901 _ 1902 Colonel William Henry Forwood

1902 _ 1903 Brigadier-General Calvin DeWitt

1903 _ 1906 Colonel Charles Lawrence Heizmann

1906 _ 1909 Colonel Valery Havard

1909 _ 1912 Colonel Louis Anatole LaGarde

1912 _ 1915 Colonel Charles Richard

1915 _ 1918 Brigadier General William Hempel Arthur

1918 _ 1918 Colonel Weston Percival Chamberlain

1918 _ 1919 Brigadier General Francis Anderson Winter

1919 _ 1923 Brigadier General Walter Drew McCaw

1923 _ 1924 Colonel Weston Percival Chamberlain

1924 _ 1929 Brigadier General Henry Clay Fisher

1929 _ 1930 Colonel Christopher Clark Collins

1930 _ 1931 Colonel Charles Franklin Craig

1931 _ 1931 Colonel Jay Ralph Shook

1931 _ 1932 Colonel Edward Bright Vedder

1932 _ 1935 Colonel Philip Weatherly Huntington

1935 _ 1939 Colonel Joseph Franklin Siler

1940 _ 1946 Brigadier General George Russel Callender

1946 _ 1949 Colonel Rufus Holt

1949 _ 1950 Colonel Elbert De Coursey

1950 _ Colonel William S. Stone
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CHIEF NURSES 

WALTER REED ARMY HOSPITAL*

Molloy, Jane G. (first C.N.) 21 June 1911 _ July 1913

Burns, Sophy M. July 1913 _ April 1914

Hine, M. Estelle May 1914 _ October 1915

Bell, Bessie S. October 1915 _ October 1917

Sheehan, Mary E. October 1917 _ December 1917

Magrath, Katherine C. December 1917 _ August 1918

Stewart, Robina L. August 1918 _ January 1919

Clark, Margaret E. (Acting C.N.) January 1919 _ February 1919

Trench, Amy M. February 1919 _ June 1919

Williamson, Anne July 1919 _ April 1922

Reid, Elizabeth D. April 1922 _ February 1923

Flikke, Julia O. February 1923 _ May 1934

Keener, Lydia M. May 1934 _ January 1944

Thompson, L. Gertrude February 1944 _ October 1947

Danielson, Ida W. November 1947 _ 31 March 1951

*Information compiled from 201 files by Nursing Division, Office of The Surgeon General, 

26 March 1951

CHIEF DIETICIANS

WALTER REED ARMY HOSPITAL

Mrs. Genevieve Field Long (civilian) October 1922 _ May 1925

Mrs. Grace Hunter (Young) (civilian) May 1925 _ May 1933

Helen C. Burns (Goarin), civilian-Major May 1933 _ August 1942

Helen A. Dautrich, Lieutenant-Major August 1942 _ July 1946

Nell Wickliffe, Captain-Major July 1946 _ September 1948

Hilda H. Lovett, Captain-Major September 1948 _ July 1952

Eleanor L. Mitchell, Major _ July 1952 _

Source of information: Lt. Col. Hilda M. Lovett, WMSC, Women’s Medical Specialist Corps 

Division, SGO and Documentary Material in Historical Unit, SGO.
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CHIEF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS

WALTER REED ARMY HOSPITAL

Alberta Montgomery (civilian) 1919 _ 1933

Mrs. Emmy Sommers (civilian) 1933 _ 1947

Roberta Aber (Lees), Captain 1947 _ 1951

Mary Riley, Captain 1951 _ September 1952

Katherine Maurice, Captain September 1952 _

Source of information: Lt. Col. H. R. Sheehan, WMSC, Chief, Occupational Therapy Branch 

Physical Medicine Consultants Division, SGO

CHIEF PHYSIOTHERAPISTS,

WALTER REED ARMY HOSPITAL

Emma E. Vogel (civilian but later a Colonel and

Chief of Corps)

1919 _ 1942

Evelyn MacDonald, civilian - 2nd Lt.- Captain 1942 _ Aug. 1946

Elsie Kurener, Captain 1946 _ Oct. 1947

Barbara Robertson, Captain 1947 _ May 1950

Bruentta Kuehlthau, 1st Lt. - Major May 1950 _

Source of information: Lt. Col. H. S. Lee, WMSC, Chief Physical Therapy Branch Physical 

Medicine Consultants Division, SGO

CHAPEL MEMORIALS*

GIFTS DONOR MEMORIAL

Field Stone Ellen R. and Harriet C. Riley Brevet Major Joseph Sim 

Smith, M.C., USA

Marble Altar, Reredos, Altar RailMrs. Blair Spencer, George T. 

Summerlin, John V. Summerlin

Mrs. Henrietta

Vandergrift Johnson

Altar Window Katherine Weeks Davidge

Sinclair Weeks

Martha Sinclair Weeks

John Sinclair Weeks
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Entrance Window Mrs. Hugh Campbell Wallace Ambassador Hugh

Campbell Wallace

East Window (1) Anna O. Connolly and Eleanor 

M. Connolly

Hon. Maurice Connolly

East Window (2) Chaplain Edmund F. Estarbrook Fanny Nescomb Estarbrook

East Window (3) American Legion Auxiliary, 

Dept. of Pennsylvania

“Sons of Pennsylvania in the 

World War who gave their

lives in the cause of liberty.”

East Window (4) Mary Willing Clymer Bayard Mary Schubrick Clymer

West Window (1) Army Nurses Army Nurses who died in

the World War

West Window (2) Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers Hon. John Jacob Rogers

West Window (3) Mrs. George Russell Cecil Colonel George Russell Cecil

West Window (4) Mrs. Elsie C. Crabbs Colonel Joseph T. Crabbs

West Window (5) American Women’s Legion “Those who carried the Flag 

Forward (1917_1919)”

Flagstone floor and 

foundation

Mrs. Edith Oliver Rea Henry Robinson Rea

East buttress (1) Medical Department,United 

States Army

East buttress (2) Mabel T. Boardman Alice Clapp District of Columbia

Chapter American Red Cross

East buttress (3) Daughters of the American

Revolution

East buttress (4) Charter members of the

Memorial Chapel Guild, AMC

West buttress (1) Disabled American Veterans of 

the World War

West buttress (2) Spanish War Veterans

West buttress (3) Knights of Columbus World War Dead

West buttress (4) American Legion

Chapel Lights Princess Margaret Boncompagni Margaret Wicliff Brown

English-style 

lantern (Main entrance)

Medical Dept, personnel at

Walter Reed General Hospital

Brig. Gen. James M. Kennedy
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PEWS

East (1) Edith P. Chapman 2d. Lt. Charles Wesley 

Chapman

“ (2) Harriet Granger Jackson 2d. Lt. Oliver Phelps 

Jackson

“ (3) Geo. Andrews Benny, Jr. Cpl. Philip Phillips Benny

“ (4) Masonic Club, AMC

“ (5) Gray Ladies, Pittsburgh Chapter, 

ARC

War Service Memorial

“ (6) Grace Occumpaugh Sara Darrow Occumpaugh

“ (7) Miriam B. Hilton Walter Edward Hilton

“ (8) Chaplain Alfred C. Oliver, Jr. J.E. Lake Oliver

“ (9) Mrs. Richard Fourchey

Mrs. William E. Lewis

Maj. Gen. James M.

McMillan (Civil War)

“ (10) Mrs. Wallace Chiswell Cornant C. Nelson

William T. Chiswell

“ (11) Cecilia B. Sniegoski

“The Polish Gray Lady”

Count Casimer Pulaski

Brig. Gen., Rev. War

“ (12) The Department Mrs. Frank B. Emery, Pres. 

of Dept. of Pa. American 

Legion Auxiliary

“ (13) “Dugout Gang”

Former World War I patients at

Walter Reed 

Bertha York Webb sponsor.

“ (14) Gray Ladies, N.Y. chapter, ARC Joint Disease built Hospital and Recreation Service 

NY Chpt., ARC

“ (15) Gertrude Lustig Emma Gene Reinhardt

“ (16) Mrs. Alfred M. Craven Augustine Saux

“ (17) Alida Frances Pattee Walter Scott Pattee

West (1) Alumnae ASN graduates “who have 

given their lives in the 

service of humanity.”

“ (2) Graduate Nurses 

WRAH
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“ (3) Graduate Nurses 

WRAH

“ (4) Student Nurses 

WRAH

“ (5) Constance B. Jordon Eldridge Jordon

Marcus A. Jordon

“ (6) Lt. Col. Richard J. Donnelly 1st. Lt. Herbert J. McDermott

“ (7) Mrs. Christy Dalrymple Brown Sgt. Joseph Francis Brown

“ (8) Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Baughman Faber Dolle Baughman

“ (9) Mrs. Marie Fagon Walter Lt. George L. Walter, Jr.

“ (10) Gift of his parents Sgt. Francis J. Osterman

“ (11) Polish people living inWashington “To the Sons of Poland 

who served in the United 

States Army during World 

War I“

“ (12) Kathleen Cecil Morgan Col. George Russell Cecil

“ (13) Sophie C. Stanton Sgt. Edwin M. Stanton

“ (14) Am. Leg. Auxiliary, Dept. of

Virginia

“The Virginia Soldiers 

who lost their lives in the 

World War“

“ (15) The Roy McKinley Basford Unit of 

the American Legion Auxiliary

Roy McKinley Basford

“ (16) Flander’s Field Unit, American Women’s Legion

“The World War Dead“

“ (17) American Women’s Legion “ “ “ “

Baptismal Font Occupational, Physio-Therapy and 

Dietetic Departments of Walter Reed 

General Hospital.

Chapel Floor Mrs. Herbert J. Slocum Col. Herbert J. Slocum

Pulpit Mrs. E. Hope G. Slater Mary Gwynn

Lectern Mrs. Lucy C. Willock

Lillian Willock

Frank Scott Willock

Bible Enlisted Men at Walter Reed Gen. 

Hosp., Then the Christian Endeavor Society

“To the Glory of God.“
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Brass Altar Cross Mrs. Brady G. Ruttencutter Margaret A.A. Baker

Brass Candlesticks and VasesJohn A. Liggett

Mrs. Merritt W. Ireland

William Harvey and

Rebecca Mills Liggett

Chancel Chairs (1) Caroline B. Burrell Rev. Jos. D. Burrell

“ (2) Chaumont Unit, American Women’s 

Legion

Brig. Gen. Robert H. 

Dunlop, U.S.M.C.

“ (3) Mrs. Lillian Sanchez Latour Francisco Sanchez Latour

Chair Stalls Edith Anne Rea Benney Mrs. Edith Ann Oliver

Prayer Desks (1) Gray Ladies at Walter Reed General 

Hospital

Mary Norton Lower

“ (2) Jessie Kennedy Frost Sgt. Kennedy Conklin

“ (3) American Red Cross Staff at Walter 

Reed General Hospital

Skinner Organ 

(three-manual)

Princess Margaret Boncompagni General William Franklin 

Draper

Missal Book

“ Stand

Thos. S. Blandford Elizabeth Hill Blandford

Silver Cross

Two Silver Vases

Two Double 

Candlesticks

Mrs. Walter Reed Major Walter Reed

McCOOK MORTUARY CHAPEL

Altar, Reredos McCook Family Daniel McCook (and 8 

Sons); John McCook (and 

5 Sons). “The Fighting 

McCooks”

Altar Rail Mrs. Charles A. 

Craig-head, Mrs. 

Thomas Dunlop

Lucy McCook Baker

Flagstone Floor Sen. and Mrs. David 

A. Reed

“In memory of those whose 

graves are unknown.“
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Cathedral Chairs Henry Oliver Rea Henry W. Oliver

Lectern Med. Adm. Corp of

Walter Reed Gen. Hosp.

Deceased Members of the 

Sanitary Corps and the Med. 

Adm. Corps.

Lights Alice J. Clapp Louis Ward Mercur

Windows (1) McCook family Martha Latimer and Catherine 

J. Sheldon McCook, wives of 

Daniel McCook and John

McCook

 “ (2) McCook family Capt. Francis R. McCook

Gothic Tower Mrs. Henry R. Rea Brig. General James Denver 

Glennan

Chapel Bell Gray Ladies Volunteer 

Service, ARC, Walter Reed 

Chapter

Bell Rope Eben L. Comins

Communion Service Gray Ladies

Bedside Communion Service Mary E., James F., and John 

L. Schick

Rev. John M. Schick, D.D.

Electric Clock

(Chaplains Office)

Masonic Clubs of D.C.

American Flag Am. Gold Star Mothers

Red Cross Flag Miss Margaret Lower

Hymn Boards Am. War Mothers

Limestone Plaque 

Main Chapel

“A few of the many who 

loved her - 1933”

Armide DeSalles McClintock

(R.C.) Vestment Case Catholic Congregation

(Vestments) Reverend Mothers Rosalie 

and Theresa Hill

Nine Catholic Chaplains killed 

in WWI

Jewish Ark (Scroll of the Law, two 

silver horns with bells, a silver 

breastplate, a silver pointer and 

the Ark Headpiece)

Children of Harris and Fannie SchiffParents
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Hand-illuminated record 

of memorials. (Prepared by 

Miss Juanita Gould, Ass’t 

Lib.)

Gray Ladies

Altar hangings, linen and

cushions

Chapel Guild Organization

*

Felthman S. James, comp., “The Story of the Memorial Chapel”, WRGH, AMC, Wash., D.C., 

published by Chapel Guild...pam., on file Lib., WRAH.

APPROXIMATE* ANNUAL ADMISSIONS, WRAH

1909 _ 760 1931 _ 6,871

1910 _ 569 1932 _ 8,064

1911 _ 594 1933 _ 7,796

1912 _ 565 1934 _ 8,366

1913 _ 867 1935 _ 7,981

1914 _ 964 1936 _ 7,505

1915 _ 1,169 1937 _ 7,600

1916 _ 1,350 1938 _ 7,503

1917 _ 4,197 1939 _ 8,079

1918 _ 13,362 1940 _ 8,467

1919 _ 9,111 1941 _ 8,025

1920 _ 5,407 1942 _ 10,818

1922 _ 5,289 1943 _ 18,046

1923 _ 5,286 1944 _ 18,009

1924 _ 5,138 1945 _ 16,878

1925 _ 6,808 1946 _ 12,955

1926 _ 6,726 1947 _ 12,336

1927 _ 6,858 1948 _ 11,053

1928 _ 7,448 1949 _ 12,412

1929 _ 8,012 1950 _ 14,702

1930 _ 7,122

*

Compiled from WR and SGO Reports. Sometimes at variance because of difference in fiscal 

and calendar year.
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MEDICAL OFFICERS ON DUTY

AT THE WALTER REED GENERAL HOSPITAL

Colonel John L. Phillips.................................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Major Paul S. Halloran....................................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Captain William H. Moncrief........................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Captain John A. Clark ....................................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Captain Percy L. Jones ...................................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Captain Howard H. Johnson .........................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Captain Ralph H. Goldthwaite .....................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Lieutenant Thomas J. Leary...........................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Lieutenant Chester R. Haig...........................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Lieutenant George F. Lull..............................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Lieutenant Charles C. Hillman .....................Medical Corps, U.S. Army

ARMY NURSE CORPS

Estelle M. Hine, Chief Nurse

Mary C. Barker Jean G. Mackenzie

Jessie M. Braden Margaret M. MacNeill

Ila Broadus Evelyn E. Mericle

Ethyl L. Dumbrille Pearl Murphy

Louise Fennelle Madeleine M. Pampel

Gertrude A. Hines Emma M. Rousseau

Ruth Holland Mary E. Sheehan

Mary E. Jordan Marie Speckert

Louise Knapp Elizabeth Spencer

Gertrude H. Lustig Frances M. Steele

Margaret J. MacDonald Alice M. Tappan

Mary E. Welsh

ENLISTED MEN ON DUTY

AT THE WALTER REED GENERAL HOSPITAL

Sergeant 1st Class Fred S. Owen Sergeant Cyrus G. Wood

Sergeant 1st Class Quentin J. Barker Sergeant John J. Pempey

Sergeant 1st Class James E. Young Sergeant George E. Lavalley

Sergeant Thomas B. Carpenter Sergeant Gregory Cipriani

Sergeant Luther C. Copley Sergeant Charles D. Mudd

Corporal George J. Levy
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Thanksgiving 1914, Walter Reed General Hospital, Takoma Park, D.C.
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ACTING COOKS

Thomas H. Cook Noah Foster James J. Logan, Jr.

Civilian Cook: William Jackson

PRIVATES FIRST CLASS

Archie S. Black Ivon B. Goldsworthy Stephen R. Royall

John E. Bohman Charles H. Jeffries James A. Speer

Albert Brenner Wescott C. Joslin John A. Spellbring

Edgar Dorsch James B. Judge Enoch W. Stewart

Hugh Drinkwater John Mullen Thomas Tuthill

Erastus E. Edwards Max Riesenberg Ennis C. Wallon 

Nathan Gillman George Roberts Joseph C. Willett

PRIVATES

Edward G. Baines Arthur R. Jernberg Harold S. Pickering

Francio St. Boulanger Leo Lewis Frank Sandlin

James W. Brown Edward J. McCrea Richard A. Scott

Edward R. Davidson John McKeller Albert P. Shannon

Tom L. Dorman Frank Maganno John H. Smith

Martin L. Effross James J. Magee William G. Strause

John Engle Sam Middleton Charles Swoboda

William S. Gideon Aloyous Martin Meltiades G. Tegopoulos

William P. Hart William O’Hara Francis M. Whitmore

QUARTERMASTER CORPS

Q.M. Sergeant Denis J. McSweeney Corporal Theodore M. Geupel

Sergeant John Polasko Corporal James F. Kight

PRIVATES FIRST CLASS

Curtis A. Jackson John R. Lucas

Frederick C. Koschnitzke Walter Powell

Stephen J. Lonergan William D. Schuster

 Louis A. Phelan

Axel G. Worm
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EXTRACT FROM LAST WILL AND

TESTAMENT OF GENERAL

FRED C. AINSWORTH*

“It is my desire that a permanent library be established at Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D.C., to be known as the Fred C. Ainsworth Endowment Library. If 

there shall be a permanent library at the said hospital at the time of my death or if no 

suitable space can be provided in the said hospital or in any building connected with 

for the purpose of establishing such a library and if such library already established 

or to be established shall therefore be known as the Fred C. Ainsworth Endowment 

Library but not otherwise, I give and bequeath to the sum of $10,000 to the person or 

persons, board, agencies, organizations, corporations or to the United States government 

who or which may be deemed by my executors hereinafter named to be best qualified 

to carry out my desires in this respect and who or which shall agree to the foregoing 

provision as a condition precedent to taking this bequest. I direct that the discretion 

of my own executor shall be final and conclusive in deciding as to whom if anyone the 

foregoing bequest shall be paid and also as to what if any agreement or undertaking to 

abide by the said provision shall be required of whomever shall receive the said bequest. 

I further direct my executor shall make its decision in regard to the foregoing matter 

within one year from date of my death and that receipt of whomsoever shall receive 

this bequest shall be a full discharge and acquittance of my said executor in respect 

thereof. I impose no duty or obligation on my said executor to see to the use of that 

application therefore.”

*

Read over the telephone by Mrs. Elizabeth Kerwin Dore to Mary W. Standlee and Anabel 

Bryant, October 18, 1951 at 12 noon.

LIST OF BUILDINGS AND

DATE OF CONSTRUCTION

BUILDING 

NUMBERS

NAME DATE BUILT

1 Main Building December 1908

1A Main Building Annex May 1915

1B Main Building Annex May 1915

1C Main Building Annex December 1914

1D Main Building Annex January 1928

1E West Wing, Main Building April 1928
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1F East Wing, Main Building April 1928

1G Main Building, Annex March 1944

1H Main Building, Annex April 1946

2 Trash Room - Eye Clinic July 1930

2A Trash Room - Eye Clinic July 1930

3 Eye Clinic - Blood Bank July 1930

3A Eye Clinic - Blood Bank December 1940

4 Quartermaster Building January 1910

4A Quartermaster Building

and Commissary

July 1932

5 Carpenter Shop January 1910

5A Oil & Gas Storage July 1939

6 Garage, Transportation January 1910

6A Garage, Transportation January 1910

7 Out-Patient Clinic March 1910

8 Officers Quarters March 1910

9 Officers Quarters March 1910

11 Nurses Quarters November 1929

11A Nurses Quarters July 1931

11B Nurses Quarters December 1933

12 Officers Apartments April 1911

13 Internes Quarters November 1913

14 Dental & X-ray Clinic July 1930

14A X-ray Therapy October 1943

15 Heating Plant 1919

16 Incinerator June 1920

17 Guest House December 1920

18 Officers Quarters purchased June 1920

18A Garage purchased June 1920

19 Officers Quarters purchased June 1920

19A Officers Quarters purchased June 1920

20 Bakery July 1932
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21 Officers Quarters purchased October 1920

22 Officers Quarters purchased October 1920

22A Garage purchased October 1920

23 Laboratory & Morgue July 1930

24 Officers Quarters purchased October 1920

24A Garage purchased October 1920

25 Officers Quarters purchased October 1920

25A Garage purchased October 1920

26 Officers Quarters purchased July 1920

27 Officers Quarters purchased July 1921

27A Garage purchased July 1921

28 Officers Quarters purchased July 1921

29 Officers Quarters purchased October 1922

29A Garage purchased October 1922

30 Officers Quarters purchased October 1922

31 Wagon Shed August 1921

32 Motor Transportation Garage October 1919

33 Medical Supply April 1922

33A Medical Supply Annex December 1925

34 Isolation Ward July 1930

35 Officers Quarters purchased October 1922

35A Garage purchased October 1922

36 TB & Maternity Building July 1930

37 Gymnasium June 1945

38 Guardhouse November 1922

39 Greenhouse #1 January 1923

40 School Building June 1925

40A School Building & Hdqs. WRAMC September 1932
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40B School Building & Hdqs. 

WRAMC

September 1932

41 Red Cross September 1927

42 Wards January 1928

43 Wards January 1928

44-N-1 Chaplain September 1945

45 Band Stand June 1941

46-1 Sentry House December 1941

46-2 Sentry House December 1941

46-3 Sentry House December 1941

49 Eng. Warehouse & Shops July 1941

50 Greenhouse #3 1926

51 Greenhouse #4 November 1928

52 Wards July 1930

53 Post Theatre February 1950

56 Laundry July 1932

57 Chapel May 1931

58 N.P. Wards December 1930

58A N.P. Wards October 1941

58B N.P. Wards October 1941

59 NCO Apartments December 1933

61 BOQ June 1941

62 BOQ June 1941

63 Mess Hall June 1941

63A Lavatory Bldg. June 1941

63B Lavatory Bldg. June 1941

64-80 Troop Command June 1941

81 Warehouse #5 June 1942

82 PX Gas Station 1940

83 Animal House March 1942

83A Animal House Annex December 1943

84 Wagon Shed June 1942

85 Cafeteria & Forms Control January 1943

86 Greenhouse #5 1941

88 Swimming Pool September 1945

89 Reconditioning Building June 1945

90 Fire House June 1946

B-15 Post Office 1917
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B-15A Bank and Transportation

Office

July 1944

B-18 Officers Apartments 1917

D-37

G-76

Post Engineer, Post Signal

Office Welfare Division, 

Nursery 

Officers Mess

1918

1918

A-03 NCO Mess 1917

CORRIDORS DATE BUILT

44A January 1928

44B January 1928

44C April 1928

44D January 1928

44E-1 January 1928

44E-2 January 1928

44H January 1928

44J January 1928

44K July 1930

44L April 1928

44M July 1930

44N July 1930

44O July 1930

44P July 1930

44Q July 1930

44R July 1930

44S 1940

44T 1940

44U 1940

44V 1940

Forest Glen purchased in 1942.

Glen Haven built in 1941 - transferred to Walter Reed September 1947.
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The Book Lady

“Let all things be done decently and in order.”1

Four things bounded her well-ordered life and each in its way contributed to that 

undefined but total composition, the personality: a definite philosophy of work; a 

determination to ask no favor of anyone; a deep and innate distrust of the constancy 

of human affections; and The Library, Walter Reed General Hospital, business address 

for thirty-one years. Of the four, the last loomed largest in her life.

The only daughter of a scholarly Dutch Reformed minister, she was born in Meyersdale, 

Pennsylvania, July 28, 18852

 but moved to Washington at the age of fifteen. The father 

was a man of strong and magnetic personality, well-beloved by his congregation and his 

President, Theodore Roosevelt. The child was precocious, vigorous and quick-tempered. 

Together they read the classics, studied language and mathematics and took long walks, 

discussing, meanwhile, religion, philosophy and the sacredness of human confidence. 

It was, therefore, the kindly loving father whom she adored above all others and who 

encouraged the academic thirst of her already active mind while teaching her disciplined 

self-control. Her only playmate during the first decade was a slightly older brother, with 

whom she romped and competed on equal terms. A beautiful, gracious and efficient 

mother shaped other characteristics and traits which, tempered by the reticence required 

of a parsonage family, developed the enigmatic personality of Mary Elizabeth Schick, to 

whom the fulfillment of duty was an honor and public service was a pleasure.

In the early years of the twentieth century only a few professional fields were open to 

young women of refinement, and so after graduation from Washington’s Central High 

School, she attended Hood College, in Frederick, Maryland, where she studied music. 

In 1906, when a few educated young ladies from good families were offered positions 

as library assistants in the Public Library, a friend persuaded her to apply.

She was immediately successful as a reference librarian, and though she facetiously 

professed a preference for scrubbing the Library’s handsome marble steps rather than 

lead the academically isolated life of a cataloguer, by 1910 she had decided on librarianship as a career. She was already known for her tact, graciousness and dignity when at 

twenty-five, properly chaperoned, she went to Philadelphia to be examined for entrance 

to Drexel Institute. The absence from home was complicated by a promise to return to 

Washington for employment, and although a number of excellent positions were open 

to her on graduation, including an offer from Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, 

on May 30, 1911 she accepted the position as librarian at the U.S. Soldier’s Home, the 

first woman to be so appointed in that institution. She began immediately to have the 

antiquated library remodeled and redecorated, and she discovered that eliminating the 

treasured cuspidors, used carelessly by some of the ancient inmates, required masterly 

1

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tact. During the afternoons she read aloud to blind domiciliary patients in the Home 

hospital, and it was here that she became acquainted with the hospital commander, the 

dignified, reserved and ascetic “Noisy Jim” Glennan. Mary Schick remained as librarian 

for the Soldiers’ Home until 1917, when she resigned for war work with the Information 

Service of the National Defense Council. This assignment was followed by an entertaining and valuable period as a special assistant in the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency.3

Socially graceful, quick-witted and with a remarkable ability to manage people with 

or without their consent, she nevertheless made neither personal nor official demands 

on others. Colonel Glennan had recognized her talent for leadership, and when he 

was assigned as commanding officer of Walter Reed in March 1919, he began trying 

to entice Mary Schick to join his staff on the promise of a free hand in building the 

Medical Department’s finest hospital library. Afternoon tea, a regular ceremony at the 

Soldiers’ Home Library, became the custom at Walter Reed, and her warm friendliness 

encouraged the commanding officer and other staff members to attend. Thus from 

the beginning she was an intimate part of the Post life, and the births and deaths, the 

marriages and promotions of Army personnel became of deep personal interest. The 

great and the near-great who visited the hospital came to her Library on guided tours. 

She believed it an obligation to attend all official functions to which she was invited, and 

she seemed unaware that she was often asked as dinner guest because of her sparkling 

conversational adaptability and not, as she mistakenly believed, because of the prestige 

of “The Library.” She came, therefore, to pity many of her professional contemporaries 

who moved from place to place in search of more highly-graded positions. Some made 

more money, but she believed none had such an interesting life.

Her philosophy of work was a philosophy of service. She believed, without equivocation, that the individual wishes of employees should be subjugated to the welfare of 

the institution. Regardless of the quantity of books circulated or shortages in personnel she kept “The Library” open on holidays until the problem was settled by hospital 

regulations. Rather than impose unwelcome restrictions on her staff she often worked 

the holiday hours. Many who came to that quiet refuge to borrow a book remained to 

lean on her desk as they committed their woes to her keeping, for she never betrayed 

a confidence.

She was a person of strong convictions, which she unhesitatingly expressed if pressed, 

and her repartee was quick and telling. Although an incomparable raconteur, she never 

mentioned herself, and her conversation represented the essence of brevity, pointed and 

pungent. Thus like G.K. Chesterton she believed that “merely having an open mind is 

nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on 

something solid.” She admitted without apology that she found the conversation of men 

more stimulating than the usual “small talk” of women, although she listened to their 

troubled trivia with apparent attention. She cared little for children, nothing for animals 

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and rarely touched a human being if contact could be avoided. As a rule people felt at 

ease with her, for she was an excellent listener, and her impersonal manner loosened the 

tongues of those who had an insatiable need of an understanding audience.

Her thrift in administering “The Library” was as well known as her impersonal manner. 

Her moods were changeable, and she was sometimes dogmatic, even inconsistent. She 

was always keen-minded, professionally well-informed, punctual, impatient of stupidity. 

Her neatness and personal fastidiousness was a subject for comment, and she somehow 

managed to appear cool and immaculate in the hot humid Washington summers which 

she despised. Her heavy reddish-gold hair had begun to gray in her late twenties and 

at forty its perfectly marcelled waves fitted her head like a spun silver cap. Her erect, 

almost military posture, which she credited to the many years of pew-sitting under the 

surveillance of her Presbyterian-born mother, was the envy of less formal friends and 

associates.

She longed to travel more frequently than permitted by the requirements of her full 

schedule of work, and so she read and bought guidebooks with enthusiasm. Above all 

other things she dreaded the age of enforced retirement from her beloved Library, or 

to become physically dependent on others for geriatric care.4

She had played the Chapel organ during the late thirties and until the longer workweek of the World War II period absorbed her free time, and she played for weddings 

and funerals, to full congregations and to empty pews. Best of all, however, she liked her 

practice hour at the Chapel, for then she could give the organ its full volume. One of 

her favorite melodies during this period was “Londonderry Air,” which she thoroughly 

enjoyed before acquaintance with the sentimental words, “Would God I were a tender 

apple blossom.” She annually denounced the Yule season as a celebration for children 

and servants but quietly gave presents, fed the hungry and visited the aged. It was Mary 

Schick who subsidized “The Library” janitor between paydays; who advanced funds to her 

soldier-helpers for rent, obstetrical service or a new suit of clothes, who quietly loaned 

money to friends who appeared more prosperous than she. She had a keen interest in 

and understanding of the financial page of the New York Times, and she managed her own 

stocks and bonds as successfully and thriftily as she managed “The Library.” Cultured, 

cryptic and business-like, she gave a lifetime of service to the hospital, happy in her 

sphere and “queen” of all she surveyed.

She was knowledgeable of the theatre, the symphony and the opera, and her familiarity with books and authors was almost legendary. There were nearly forty thousand 

recreation books in her Library, and the monthly purchase exceeded the majority of 

the branch libraries of Washington’s public system. By 1950, The Medical Library and 

The Ainsworth Library contained a combined eight thousand volumes. More than one 

hundred medical journals and periodicals were received each month and circulated to 

interested staff members prior to permanent filing. An extensive inter-library loan 

business was conducted with the Army Medical Library, which she had long wanted to 

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An Artist at Work; Lt. Niesen Tregor, MSC

5

 S. Kathleen Jones, Hospital Libraries, American Library Association, 1939, pgs 66, 80; 

Service Stripe, March 10, 1945.

see located at the Army Medical Center as planned. Thus under her expert guidance 

the hospital library at Walter Reed became one of the largest of its kind in the United 

States.5

 She could discuss surgical literature with her faithful friend, Colonel Keller; 

the stock market with General Metcalfe; deplore the high cost of living with a disconsolate “GI,” quickly find the shortest historical novel in “The Library” for a desperate 

high school sophomore, or exchange clever stories with her best non-fiction reader, 

“Big Jim” Kimbrough.

Although she never sought the company of juveniles, many adored her. Army children, she said tartly, grew up under her desk. Some returned as staff physicians, or as 

proud young mothers with struggling gurgling youngsters to be duly admired; others 

merely returned to see her. Walter Reed was the Medical Department’s Mother House 

for training, and its doctors and nurses were reassigned to small station hospitals 

throughout the United States. Some wrote to her for guidance in establishing libraries 

or to purchase books. Many who went overseas in World War II sent for books for 
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their units, and in spite of the excellent facilities afforded by the Army Medical 

Library, Walter Reed-trained doctors often preferred having her undertake their 

medical reference work. For years she had procured special purchases of medical 

books for staff members, buying the volumes on her account and then waiting 

patiently until “next month” for payment, if the purchaser was hardpressed. It 

was not surprising, therefore, that the president of one of the large Medical Book 

Companies counted on her as one of his “best friends in the library business,”6 for 

her orders were large, her records were exact and always in order and her own bills 

paid with clock-like regularity.

In the years from 1923 to 1941 only two librarians, the Misses Schick and Gould, 

and three soldier-helpers accomplished all the library work, including a readers’ 

advisory service to bed patients. It was during this period that Miss Schick earned 

the title of “The Book Lady,” as gray-haired, gray-uniformed and with a small fourwheeled book-laden cart she visited the wards. In late 1941, when Miss Gould 

transferred to a Navy library and before her replacement was secured, Miss Schick 

attempted to serve all the wards alone rather than request an authorization for additional 

personnel. The increased activities of the World War II period ultimately forced 

her to expand the staff and confine her own activities to administration. Such an 

arrangement did not restrict her personal contacts, however, for old-timers invariably sought her out with a glad cry - “Why Miss Schick, are you still here?” And 

they always reminisced, for she represented a continuity in the life of the hospital 

that was solid, respectable and gracious. Like Kean’s description of the hospital’s 

noble facade, she was authentic.

She had, through the years, carefully collected and hung portraits of the hospital’s 

many commanding officers, and some of the Surgeons General, but close association with occasionally pompous members of the military population of the Post 

had convinced her, to her own satisfaction at least, that civilian employees were 

not included as intimates in the military group. As a consequence, she steadfastly 

refused to provide “The Library” with an acceptable photograph or portrait of 

herself. When her old friend of Soldiers’ Home days, Norman T. Kirk, became 

Surgeon General in 1943, he ordered a terra cotta model made of her leonine head, 

for permanent assignment to “The Library.” As the features lacked the “laughter 

lines” worn deep by her friendly smile, some of her associates thought it was an 

empty-eyed and cold-looking creation, and so for several years she kept it shrouded 

and in the Ainsworth Library, on top of Colonel Keller’s old empyema files. Now 

and then a photographer from the Medical Illustrations Section of the Army Medical 

Center headquarters would try his luck at photographing “The Book Lady,” but 

few achieved any real likeness, her friends complaining that her pictures lacked 

the warmth of her personality and seemed severe.7

6 Ltr from Edward T. Speakman, Jr. (C.M.B.C.) to the writer, July 5, 1951

7

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Although long afflicted with hypertension, as well as a minor heart ailment which she 

carefully refrained from mentioning to her family, in 1946, for the first time since beginning 

her forty years of public service, Mary Schick was away from her work for a three-month 

surgical illness. Once recovered she returned to duty with the same zest and the same determination that characterized everything she did. By the early summer of 1951, however, 

her brisk step faltered occasionally, and once or twice she admitted, rather disdainfully, to 

having a headache.

On June 25, 1951, during the afternoon tea hour and while entertaining her staff with a 

clever story, she experienced a sudden and temporary loss of consciousness. She was hospitalized in spite of determined protests, but two hours later, while again playing the inimitable 

raconteur, she suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage.

Few have been privileged to choose their exit from life, but hers was as she wished. At 9 

PM, the closing hour for her beloved library, the Great Physician turned the key for Mary 

E. Schick, The Book Lady of Walter Reed who was always too busy with her daily duties to 

write the story of the hospital that she wanted for her own Library. She died as she had lived, 

quietly and without distress, with “all things...done decently and in order.” 8 The news spread 

8

 Ltr L.K. Multon to P.H. Schick, June 28, 1950.

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9

 I Corinthians XIII, 40.

 10 I Corinthians IX, 22.

quickly, and letters of condolence came from far and wide, for to her friends, to many 

of the sick and wounded soldiers whom she had befriended through the years, “The 

Library,” quiet oasis in the busy life of the hospital, and the librarian were one and the 

same. The letters were always the same - that the hospital had lost an irreplaceable 

employee, the person writing had lost a best friend, and the world was richer because 

she had lived. Many came to pay their last respects and there were, of course, “the 

many, many thousands not there. Those would be the hospitalized soldiers over the 

years, and many others, for whose good (she) gave of her wisdom, of her strength, 

of her heart, and of her joy.” 9 Doctors, nurses, patients and friends had often found 

comfort in her selfless service, and because of her versatility in friendship some had 

remarked that she was “made all things to all men.”10

In the years following publication of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” librarians, like 

school teachers, became the object of gentle literary ridicule. There were an increasing 

number of stories, plays and cartoons which depicted a librarian as a mousey, bookish 

and detached creature, one who looked and acted frustrated and afraid of the world. 

As a rule some amused friend provided “The Book Lady” with the current samples of 

such wit or art, which usually found their way to the waste basket. Among the few 

personal items which she retained in her desk, however, was one of James J. Metcalf’s 

poems called “The Librarian,” for which she could have been the model.

The good librarian is one...Who knows not only books...

But how to handle people and...To judge them by their 

looks...Who also knows a thousand facts...Or finds them 

in a hurry...To satisfy the doubtful minds...That cogitate 

and worry...From ancient words to current news...And 

how to spell a name...The wars that shaped geography...And who was most to blame...The best there is in 

juveniles... In poetry and fiction...The latest thing in 

science and...The key to better diction...The good librarian is kind...And yet politely stern...Whose knowledge is 

abounding but...Who does not cease to learn.

In her fine almost Spencerian handwriting she had made notes on a small library 

card which indicated that she had consulted the hospital’s cardiologist in 1939, and 

the Chief of the Medical Service in 1942. Their conclusions were apparently the 

same. There was no enlargement of the heart, although both physicians had detected 

a “slow, soft murmur;” both had informed her, as doctors often do, that she had an 
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“interesting” condition. She had been told that she could take limited exercise on level 

ground, should avoid exhaustion and nervous tension. Adherence to such instructions, 

they had said, would give her “several years longer” to live.

Someone had apparently asked her to make a brief talk on her activities as a hospital 

librarian, for she had made other miscellaneous notes on a scratch pad, among which 

was the phrase “Have always worked hard.” Her affairs were in order; her accounts 

were correct.

One small task, residue of her early days at Walter Reed, remained incomplete - the 

history of the installation which had received from her a lifetime of devotion. She had 

begun collecting newspaper clippings in the early twenties, for library visitors were 

always suggesting that she write an institutional history. The busy, happy years slipped 

away from her, however, and during the early forties she began urging a younger staff 

member to write the story, undertaken as a casual extra-curricular activity in the winter of 1943. It should, she said, record indelibly the personalities of the many hospital 

commanders, the intimate almost family loyalty of the staff, and it should tie firmly the 

past to the present. She had agreed to serve, with her old friend Jimmy Kimbrough, 

as an informal advisor during the preparation of the manuscript, and with her customary poignant intellectualism she had derided the censorial efforts of those desirous of 

degrading history to the level of public relations media.

It was the late Raymond Dodge who said “To indoctrinate his subordinates with his 

main principles of action is one of the tasks of a great leader.” If, therefore, this small 

informal volume had been prepared for publication rather than as a local reference work, 

the dedicatory page should carry the sort of inscription that has so often appeared on 

book plates, “Mary E. Schick, Her Book,” for in undertaking the task the pupil, who is 

neither librarian nor historian, has merely borrowed the mantle of the teacher.
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Index

A

Aedes aegypti, 40, 206, 207, 264

Agramonte, Aristides, 38, 39, 40, 41, 49, 71

Aides, occupational, 132, 133, 169, 184, 192, 289, 300, 303, 308, 317, 335, 336, 338, 341

Aides, physiotherapy, 170, 185, 192, 279, 288, 300, 302, 309, 317, 318, 319

Ainsworth, Frederick C., 62, 63, 90, 285

Armstrong, George E., 381

Army and Navy General Hospital, 20, 59, 106

Army Dental Bulletin, 229

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, see Army Medical Museum

Army Institute of Pathology, see Army Medical Museum

Army Medical Bulletin, 206, 229

Army Medical Center, authorization of, 207

Army Medical Department Research and Graduate School, 370, 372

Army Medical Library, 8, 19, 24, 29, 68, 113, 114, 153, 155, 157, 365, 378, 379, 380, 381

Army Medical Museum, 8, 24, 26, 113, 153, 155, 157, 364, 378, 379, 380, 381

Army Medical School, 9, 24, 25, 26, 28, 31, 58, 61, 65, 67, 75, 77, 79, 80, 82, 88–94, 99, 101, 

102,106, 110–113

Army Medical Service, change to, 374

Army Nurse Corps, authorization of, 59

Army School of Nursing, 132, 139, 140, 187, 188, 193, 200, 223, 240, 261, 262, 342

Army Specialists Corps, 325

Army Veterinary School, 153, 175, 228, 344, 347

Arthur, William H., 66, 67, 81–85, 87, 90, 100, 110, 112, 115, 140–147, 158, 159, 362

Arts and Skills Program, 338, 356

Ashburn, Percy M., 88, 106–108, 119

Austed, Mark, 339

B

Bacillus icteroides, 36

Bacillus X, 36, 48

Barnes, Joseph K., 7, 8

Barnes Hospital, 61, 66, 67, 162

Barton, Clara, 3, 29

Basic Science Course, 368, 369

Batson, A.B., Dr., 304

Beach, George C., 353, 354, 367, 376, 377

Bell, Bessie S., 137

Bellows, Henry W., 2, 3
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Billings, John S., 113, 381

Birmingham, Henry P., 88, 90, 99, 100, 102, 121, 120, 222, 362

Blackwell, Elizabeth, Dr., 1–4

Blair, Francis Preston, 10

Blair, Montgomery, 10, 12

Bliss, Raymond W., 373, 377, 380

Boone, Joel T. 381

Borden, William Cline, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 59–61, 63–69, 77–79, 81, 87, 113, 125–127, 192, 242, 

246, 280, 329, 378, 384

“Borden’s Dream”, 64, 67, 71, 125, 127, 156, 358, 384

Bureau of War Risk Insurance, see Veterans Administration

Builder’s Exchange, location of A.M.S., 89, 113

Burns, Sophy, 101

C

Caduceus, adoption of, 291

Callender, George R., 110, 177, 322, 323, 345, 366

Cameron, Simon, 4

Cameron’s Creek, 11–14, 69, 82, 99, 106, 125, 162, 199, 222

Camp Ord, 332

Carroll, James, Dr., 26, 36, 38–41, 49, 71

Carter, Henry R., Dr., 36, 37, 49

Central Dental Laboratory, 322, 347

Chapel guild, 255

Christie, Arthur, Dr., 112

Color, for Medical Department, 59

“Come Back,” 133, 173, 185, 199, 212

Command, by Medical Officers, 19, 61

Companies of Instruction, 21, 28, 58, 59, 62

Consultants, Society of United States Medical, 365

Coolidge, Calvin, 196, 197, 266

Craig, Charles F., 88, 89, 177, 178, 227, 230, 239

Craig, Malin, 280

Crawford, John, Dr., 35

Crystal Spring, 9–11, 13

Culex fasciatus, see Aedes aegypti

D

Danielson, Ida W., 358

Darnall, Carl R., 65, 79, 90, 147, 206, 233, 234, 241, 251, 290

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Daughters of the American Revolution, 30

Davis, John B., Dr., 304

Davidge, John W., Mrs., see Weeks, John W.

Decker, Arthur, 200

Delano, Jane A., 85, 108

Dental Corps Medal, 290

Dentistry, 60, 112, 114, 122, 123, 140, 171

Dependents, 20, 92

DeWitt, Calvin, 88, 274

DeWitt, Wallace, 274–276, 281, 283, 286, 287, 289, 295, 354

Dietitians, 101, 170, 192, 194, 207, 237, 300, 302, 311, 318, 341, 366

Dix, Dorothea, 3

Dowell, Greensville, Dr., 35

Draper, William F., Gen., 245

Duncan, Louis C., 111

Dunham, George C., 230, 288

E

Early, Jubal, 11, 99, 168, 243

Eberstadt Committee, 374

Educational Reconditioning Program, 340, 341

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 338, 376

Emory Chapel, 9–11

Evans, Mark, see Austed, Mark

F

Fasciculus, 113

Federal Board of Hospitalization, 174, 192, 273

Finlay, Carlos, Dr., 36, 39–41, 71

Finley, Clement L., 3, 6

Finney, J.M.T., Dr., 145

First Reserve Hospital, 67

Fisher, Henry C., 102, 103, 105, 139, 147, 226, 227, 239

Fletcher, Robert, Dr., 28, 104, 113

Flikke, Julia O., Mrs., 222, 223, 280

Ford, Clyde, 58

Ford, J.H., 112

Forest Glen Section, 307–310, 313, 332, 336, 338, 341, 356, 364, 375, 378

Fort Stevens, 11, 12, 14, 62, 114, 384
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G

Garrison, Fielding H., Dr., 41, 104, 113, 114, 225, 226

Gentry, Ernest R., 193, 214, 230, 241, 257, 269

Gilchrist, Harry L., 206, 228

Glennan, James D., 65, 100, 147, 157–159, 162, 165, 166, 168, 174, 188, 189, 193, 196–201, 229, 

242, 244, 245, 255, 354, 378

Gorgas, W.C., 48, 88, 105, 108, 112, 119–121, 137–139, 144, 145, 147

Gould, Juanita, 218

Grasshopper courses, see Refresher Training Course

Gray Ladies, 135, 183, 184, 186, 187, 193, 242–246, 305, 336

Green, Ralph, 265

Greenleaf’s Point, 21, 61

Grim, Ralph., Pvt., 244

H

Halleck, Henry W., 4–7, 11

Halloran, Paul, 83

Hammond, William Alexander, 6–9,21, 24, 113, 329, 384

Hampton, Aubrey Otis, 305

Harding, Warren G., 174

Havard, Valery, 88

“Hawley” Committee, 373, 379

Hemmeter, John, Dr., 41

Hester, Thomas, 310

Hine, Estelle, 107, 108

Hoff, Alexander H., 290, 291

Hoff, John Van R., 21, 23, 24, 29, 58, 290, 291, 362

Hoff Medal, 290, 291

Hoff Memorial Fountain, 290, 291

Holt, Rufus, 366

Hoskins Medal, 290

Hospital Corps, 20, 21, 26, 28, 30, 57, 59, 60, 62, 75, 77, 79, 80, 82, 88, 90, 91, 100, 101, 103, 104, 

112, 114

Hospital Inspector, 356, 357

Hospital Stewards, 3, 57, 59, 60, 62

Howard, L.O., 38

Huntington, P.W., 259

Hurley, Patrick J., 251
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I

Index-catalogue, 29, 104, 113, 114, 225

Index-medicus, 114

Internes, Dental, 371

Interns, Medical, 193, 194, 259, 262, 266, 276, 286, 287, 289, 290

Ireland, Merritte, W., 48, 65, 77, 78, 89, 145, 147, 153, 157, 168, 193, 196, 197, 223, 225–227, 234, 

240, 251, 378

Ivy, Robert H., Dr., 285, 304

J

James Creek Canal, 21

Johnson, John A., Mrs., 245

K

Kahn, R.L., Dr., 227

Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 38, 40, 48–50, 64–69, 71, 77, 78, 85, 88, 90, 108, 110, 125, 126, 145, 

147, 157, 173, 207, 362, 367

Keener, Lydia M., 280, 310

Kefauver, Estes, 267

Keefer, F.R., 58, 147

Keller, William L., 159–164, 166, 167, 190, 219, 230, 241, 242, 251, 252, 259, 265, 268, 276, 278, 

279, 285

Kelly, Howard, Dr., 50

Kelser, Raymond A., 228, 264

Kennedy, James M., 225–227, 230, 253

Kimbrough, James C., 265–269

Kirk, Norman T., 160, 161, 206, 265, 364, 365, 373, 376, 378, 379

L

LaGarde, Louis A., 93

Lawson, Thomas, 2, 3

Lazear, Jesse W., 37–41, 49, 71

Letterman, Jonathan, Dr., 7

Library, Walter Reed Army Hospital, 135, 147, 217–219, 239, 261, 266

Lower, Margaret, 134, 166, 242

Lumsden, David, 157, 158, 198

Lynch, Charles, 64, 88
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Mc

McCaw, Walter D., 48, 50, 65, 88, 147, 362

McClellan, George B., 4–7

McCook, 11, 243, 244

McDowell, Irvin, 4

McGee, Anita Newcomb, Dr., 30

McLean, Evelyn Walsh, 133, 338

M

Marietta, Shelley U., 257–259, 259, 300, 301, 309, 310, 313, 331, 336, 347, 353

Marshall, George Catlett, 269, 310

Martin, Franklin, Dr., 139

Mason, Charles F., 88, 119–121

Medical Department Professional Service Schools, 282, 284, 288–290, 297, 317, 322, 326, 

328, 329, 370

Medical Field Service School, opening of, 106

Memorial Chapel, 242–246

Mental alienation, 103, 104, 112

Metcalfe, Raymond F., 279, 280, 295, 297, 300

Miller, Crosby P., 108

Molloy, Jane, 85, 86, 101, 359

Moncrief, William H., 252

Moore, John, 105

Moreland’s Tavern, 10, 11, 13

Morgan, Clifford V., 357

Munson, E.L., 58, 59

Musical Therapy, 336

N

Nichols, Henry J., 89, 91, 140, 177, 178, 206, 207, 227, 230

Noble, Robert E., 88, 121, 137, 138, 145, 147, 174

“Noisy Jim”, see Glennan, James D.

Nott, Josiah Clark, Dr., 35

Nurses’ Aides, 138, 139, 342–344

Nurses and Nursing, 2–4, 6, 20, 21, 28, 30, 31, 57–60, 67, 84–87, 92, 102, 104, 107, 108, 136–140, 

170, 187, 188, 192, 216, 222, 223, 238, 240, 257, 258, 261, 280, 281, 310, 311, 318, 342, 343, 358, 359, 

377, 378
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O

Occupational Therapy, see Aide, Occupational Therapy

O’Reilly, Robert M., 40, 45, 63, 64, 67, 79

P

Patterson, Robert Urie, 240, 251, 253, 361, 378

Pershing, John J., 145, 189, 353, 375

Phillips, John L., 105, 106, 253, 376

Physiotherapy, see Aides, Physiotherapy

Pilcher, James E., 20

Plotz, Harry, 345, 373

Practical nurses, course for, 377, 378

Presidential Suite, 357

Princess Boncompaigni, see Draper, William F.

Professional Board, 223, 226, 321

R

Radio, Installations of, 200

Randall, Raymond C., 347

Rea, Edith Oliver, 134, 135, 159, 166, 216, 242

Reed, Walter, 26, 28, 29, 31, 36–46, 48–50, 61, 71, 87, 100, 108, 110, 138, 253, 285

Reed, Walter, Mrs., 108, 110, 242

Reid, Elizabeth, 108

Refresher Training Courses, 164, 322, 324, 347, 348, 360, 366, 367, 369, 371

Residency Training Program, 359, 369

Reynolds, Charles M., 110, 274, 378

Reynolds, Clytie, 265

Reynolds, F.P., 67

Richard, Charles, 87, 93, 94, 99, 110–112, 119, 147

Riley, Elizabeth and Harriet, 245

Rodriguez, F., 229

Rogers, Edith Nourse, 245, 310

Rogers, John J., 195, 245

Romansky, Monroe J., 340

Ross, Ronald, Sir, 35, 49, 50

Rothafel, Samuel “Roxie”, 200

Russell, F.F., 88, 89, 100, 110, 178, 230, 239
423

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S

Salversan, see Venereal Disease

Sanarelli, Guiseppi, 36–39, 48

Sanitary Commission, 2, 3, 6

Sawyer, Charles E., 173

Schick, Mary E., 166, 218, 219, 246, 266, 285

Schreiner, Edward R., 122

Scott, Winfield, 4, 5

Scuffertown Tavern, 158

Shield, Army Medical Center, 207

Siler, J.F., 110, 177, 178, 205, 206, 230, 288

Simmons, James S., 227, 229

“606,” see Venereal Disease

Smadel, Joseph E., Dr., 373

Smith, Lloyd, 192, 193

Snyder, Oscar F., 370

Sommers, Emmy, 335

Spencer, Blair, Mrs., see Johnson, John A., Mrs.

Stanton, Edwin B., 4–8

Stegomyia calopus, 39, 40

Sternberg, George M., 20, 24, 26, 30, 35–38, 40–43, 48, 49, 63, 230

Sternberg Medal, 290

Stimson, Julia C., 187, 223, 318

Straub, Paul F., 362

Strong, Richard, 328

Streit, Paul H., 377, 378

Surgeon General’s Library, see Army Medical Library

Syphilis, see Venereal Disease

T

Thayer, William Sydney, Dr., 38

Thompson, Dora E., 137, 138, 358, 359

Thompson, Gertrude L., 310, 358

Training, Rotating, 67

Tripler, Charles, 6, 7

Truby, Albert E., 251, 253, 255, 258, 261–264, 274

Truby, Williard F., 121, 122
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United States Cadet Nurses, 343

V

Vaccination, Class at Army Medical School, 88

Vedder, Edward Bright, 111, 178, 206, 230, 239

Venereal Disease, 21, 31, 75, 88, 91, 101, 104, 111, 112, 164, 179, 214, 227

Veterans Administration, 171, 172, 174, 189, 190, 192, 211, 229, 235, 236, 256, 258, 261, 262, 

280, 381

Veterans Bureau, see Veterans Administration

Veterinary Corps, 114

Voorhees Committee, 373

W

Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 384

Walter Reed Memorial Association, 71

Washington Barracks, 21, 28, 42, 46, 58–62, 66–69, 75, 78, 79, 80, 83, 88

Weaver, Joseph U., 377

Weeks, John W., 245

Welch, William Henry, Dr., 36–41, 49, 50, 137, 139, 145, 291

Women’s Army Corps, 310–313, 319, 332, 337, 341, 344, 376–378

Women’s Central Association of Relief, 2, 8

Wood, Cyrus B., 243, 246

Wood, Leonard, 90, 173

Wood, Robert C., 2, 3, 6

Wood, Rosalind, 173

Woodhull, A. A., 23, 24, 58

Wright, Almroth E., Sir, 88

XYZ

York, Bertha, 185

Zinsser, Hans, 207
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Mary Walker Standlee

1906–1985, Author of Borden’s Dream

The author, Mary Walker Standlee, undertook the extensive task of compiling and 

writing Borden’s Dream while working at the library of Walter Reed General Hospital. She 

received her master’s degree in education from the University of Texas at Austin and 

was married to an Army physician, MG Earle Glenn Standlee.

This is an unedited publication of Standlee’s 1952 manuscript, a vibrant historical 

account based on interviews and documents. It chronicles the realization of Borden’s 

Dream, “an Army medical center incorporating a hospital, school, library and museum.”

Photograph: Mary Walker Standlee, c. 1948, courtesy of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Buechler, US Army, Retired.
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