Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-29

Physicians and Surgeons and the At
lanta Medical College has been ef-
fected, and as a result an institution
to be known as the Atlanta Medical
College has been formed. Details OF
the consolidation were announced
Saturday by representative commit
tees from both colleges.
Ambitious plans for the new col
lege are outlined. The immediate eff
feet Of the consolidation will be the
placing of the Atlanta Medical Col
1ege in Glass A by the American Med
ical Association. II renders the new
ly formed college eligible to member
ship in the Association of American
Medical Colleges, admitting its grad
yates to practice anywhere in the
world. It's doors open with the new
college year in September.
The consolidation will force the
abandonment of the property of the
Atlanta School Of Medicine on Luckie
and Barlow Streets and the establish
ment of a considerable plant in con-
nection with the present equipment
of the Atlanta College Of Physicians
and Surgeons on Butler and Arm
strong Streets.
Officers Are Announced.
The new college will be Differed by
w. s. Elkin, dean, and W. F. West
moreland, president, of the Atlanta
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
and by two officers to be nominated
by the Atlanta School OF Medicine.
All these plans were announced BY
a committee from the Atlanta School
of Medicine, consisting of George H.
Noble, L. c. Fischer and Edward 6.
Jones, and a committee from the
Atlanta College of Physicians and
Surgeons, whose members are w. S.
Elkin, W. F. Westmoreland and G. W.
Strickler.
Consideration Of the proposition
has been under way for some time,
stated the committee members.
1T has been the one object of these
deliberations" they announced, Ito
organize an institution of dignity and
Of permanent promise. whose gradu-
ates win receive general recognition
throughout the United States-an in
stitution 80 constituted as to make
it a real public asset and so con-
Quoted as to expect and to deserve
the heartiest popular commentator"
So complete have been the prelimi-
nary deliberations that before word
Of the union had been breathed every
plan was worked out, even to the APP
pointment of a faculty and of board
of trustees.
The faculty proper will consist Of
the following physicians:
Department of Medicine-W. 8.
Kendrick, c. w. Strickler, r. T. Dor
sey, ]. c. Johnson, J. c. OImsted, E.
c. Thrash, E. B. Block. c. E. Boyn-
ton, L. B. Clarke, George NJ. Niles,
L. NJ. Gaines, S. R. Robe. 8 and B.
Wolff
Department Of Surgery-W. f.
Westmoreland. F. w. McRae, E. G.
Jones, w. S. Goldsmith, F. K Boland,
J. L. Campbell, L. c. Fischer, NJ.
Hoke and A. L. Fowler
Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology-Geo H. Noble, w. 8.
Elkin, E. c. Davis and S. 7. Barnett.
Department of Mater1a Medica and
Clarke with other salaried associ-
ates).
Department of Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat-F. P. Calhoun, Dunbar Roy
and ] NJ. Crawford
Department OF Physiology-George
Bachman with other salaried associ-
ates).
Department of Anatomy. w. Pa
PEE with other salaried associates).
Department Of Pathology-John
Funke with other salaried associ-
ates).
Department of Chemistry-Edgar
Everhart with other salaried asso-
ciates).
Associate Faculty Not Named.
The associate faculty has not yet
been completed. 1t will embrace the
names Of so or rs additional physi-
clans of prominence in the city.
The probable board of trustees Of
the Atlanta Medical College will be
Reuben r. Arnold, H NJ Dorsey,
Judge George Hillyer, G. s. Lowndes,
E W. Martin, F. ]. Paxon. Judge T.
P. Westmoreland, H. H. Cabaniss
John ]. Eagan, John H. James, H. J.
Lowry, Wilmer L. Moore, ]. Carroll
Payne, c. f. Currier, T. A. Hammond,
Marion NJ Jackson, R. F. Maddox,
Bishop c. K. Nelson, ]. s. Prather and
w. S. Witham.
The union of the two colleges is
significant as a historical event. The
name of the first medical college
founded in Atlanta was that of the
consolidated school-the Atlanta
Medical College. This institution was
formed in 1854, was suspended during
the war and its building used as a
hospital 1t was merged in 1898 with
the Southern Medical College, which
was organized in 1878, to form the
Atlanta College of Physicians and
'urgeonG
The Atlanta School of Medicine