Except for the park that still bears his name, and four softball diamonds, the hospital stood alone on the large tract in 1942. The offer was readily accepted, the story said, but it still did not use the name Texas Medical Center to describe the planned complex. The name does crop up, though, in a page one story on Sunday, May 9, 1943. This time, the local news upstaged even the war. Baylor to move medical schools here.
Units are to become part of big center.
The story, which moved over the Associated Press wire from Waco, home of Baptist-affiliated Baylor University, said university trustees had unanimously accepted proposals from the heavily endowed M.D. Anderson Foundation of Houston to transfer the College of Medicine and Dentistry at Dallas to Houston, where the schools would become part of Texas Medical Center. The foundation would also provide temporary quarters until the school could be built. The story said the M.D. Anderson Foundation agreed to have no part in the management or control of the medical school, and Baylor agreed to accept and admit students of all faiths and select faculty and administrators without regard to religious faith. These guarantees were important because the trustees decision to move the medical school from Dallas had been spurred, in part, by the insistence of officials and doctors there that the school should drop its religious affiliation as a condition for becoming part of a planned medical center. Much later, in 1969, the medical school s relationship to the Baptist General Convention of Texas was ended by agreement, and today it is a nonprofit, non-sectarian corporation.