The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22

association; Dr. Oscar Bowling, state health officer of Louisiana; Dr. E. G. Williams, state health officer of vir- ginia; Dr. Leo $. Rowe of Washing ton, D. C.. director general of the Pan anna American union, and Dr. A. s. Boyd of Panama, cNief of surgical service of the SantoD Tomas hospital The scientific director of the Gorgas institute is Dr. Richard F. Strong of Boston, Mass, at present director of School of Tropical Medicine of liar ward university. Dr. Strong will begin his work in Panama in March and the work of the Gorgas School of Sanita- tion will be established in September of this year.
 St-tc Organization CT, nted
 The movement of the Gorgas me- morial institute will be advanced in every state by a joint committed. consisting of a group of men and women representing business and civic interests and a group com prising the state health officers and the leading physicians of each state.
 At a conference of number of men in Birmingham who are inter ested in the movement, Dr. Welch, in speaking of the movement, declared:
 'The decision to establish the Gorgas school of sanitation in Ala bama as the first practical field work of the Gorgas Memorial instl- tute, was made largely at the insti- gation of the health officers of all the southern states, who selected the site in Alabama because of the cen tral location of this state in relation to the other southern states and also because the family of General Gorgas was. for several decades, most inti- mately associated with the education al development of Alabama.
 School of Sanitation at Tuscaloosa
 "The work of the school will con mentation in the health problems pe- culiar to the southern states In fact, the entire program of training for sanitary engineers, county health workers and public health nurses will be drawn up with the assistance and guidance of the health officers of our southern statesmen who are most closely in touch with the type of personnel so urgently required. The Gorgas school of sanitation does not contemplate the training of men for the profession of medicine, but in it's training of sanitary engineers, county health officers and public health nurses, will perform an edu- eational service offered by no other institution in the United States and will meet a most imperative need throughout our entire country.
 MT. Robbins as executive secretary of the board of directors of the in stitute in speaking of the relation ship of the Gorgas school of santa ton to the state of Alabama and the state university declared:
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 Tt is particularly gratifying ito our board of directors that, through the courtesy of the University of
 Alabama, the building which will house the Gorgas school of sanitation will be located upon the campus or the university at Tuscaloosa. Let me emphasize at this time that aside from the friendly cooperation or the university in the development of our work there will be no official con nection between the two institutions. The work of the Gorgas school of sanitation will be administered by the board of directors of the Gorgas Me morial institute. through the agency of it's committee on education. us activities will be supported from the income derived from the permanent foundation established for the nam tenance of the institute and us branches Aside from the manifest advantages of having our school oi sanitation located in It's close prox- unity to one of, the greatest of our state universities. the principal mo- tive which led to the decision or our board of directors to place the school of sanitation at Tuscaloosa was 1 sentimental reason.
 AS is well known to all or the 1 people of Alabama, the father ol Gen. William Crawford Gorgis was the president. for manly years. of the University of Ala oama, and hlS moth
 CT. for nearly thirty years. acted as | the librarian for the university, anl
 In this capacity became beloved-.a
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 of students coming from all parts ci I the south. Tuscaloosa is rich in the 1 traditions of the Gorgas family, and while. in placing the 0orgas schoo' of Sanitation In Alabama. we ars