Past Presidents I Have Known*t BY THOMAS E. KEYS, SC.D., Emeritus Librarian
The Mavo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota INTRODUCTION Thomas Edward Keys was for many years the medical librarian at the Mayo Clinic. He is a fine medical historian as well as a distinguished writer. In 1966 he received the coveted Marcia C. Noyes Award from the Medical Library Association. As a past president himself, he is well fitted to write the biographical sketches of these people. He knew them all intimately. N Much of the history of the Medical Library Association is revealed in the article. The past presidents about whom he writes made many outstanding contributions not only to the Association itself, but to medical librarianship as a whole. The portraits he paints of these "giants" indicate the ability, intelligence, personality, and charm of each of them. The Association will always benefit from their efforts on its behalf, and we are grateful to them. To our members who also knew these presidents, happy reminiscing with Tom; to the newer members, a fascinating joumey into the past is ahead for you. SARAH C. BROWN, Past President Medical Library Association ABSTRACT
quality of thoroughness, (4) the grace of humility (Osler, Sir William. Teacher and Student. In his This paper is an account of the accomplishments of Aequanimitas: with Other Addresses to Medical some of the early past presidents of the Medical Students. 3d ed. Philadelphia, Blakiston Company, Library Association known personally to the author in 1904. p. 27-31.). It is thought that our past presidents his career as a medical librarian. It demonstrates the possessed all of these qualities. qualities that made these librarians leaders of our profession and also indicates their personal attributes that contributed to the advancement of medical librarianship. It is hoped that the historical IN a career of thirty-eight years as a medical presentation of some of the giants of our profession librarian I became acquainted with many will inspire present and future presidents and other distinguished members of our profession. Some medical librarians with an understanding of some of I knew better than others. I thought my the qualities necessary to the continuing success of our profession. Sir William Osler, who was a great believer colleagues would be interested in the Past in libraries and librarians and himself a Past President Presidents that I knew rather well. I have of MLA, summed up four qualities in his advice to selected for review those that are now deceased medical students equally applicable to past and or retired. Many distinguished Presidents I present leadership in the library profession-(l) the knew but not as well are not included, such as art of detachment, (2) the virtue of method, (3) the This is the first installment of a two-part article by Mr. Keys on MLA past presidents. The second installment will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin. t Unpublished material from The College of the Medical Book, the Memoirs of Thomas E. Keys. Mr. Keys now resides at 1224 South Peninsula Drive, Daytona Beach, Florida 32018. *
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Miss Marcia C. Noyes, our first woman President, Librarian of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, Dr. W. W. Francis, the Oslerian Librarian of McGill University Medical School, Dr. W. B. McDaniel II, Librarian, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Miss Marjorie Darrach, Librarian of Wayne University Medical Library, Miss Wilma Troxel,
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FIG. 1.-James Francis Ballard, right, chatting with the late Dr. Robert M. Stecher at a reception at the Plaza Hotel, New York City, in June 1945.
Librarian at the University of Illinois Medical the Director's office; it was way in the back School Library, Miss Isabelle Anderson, Li- room. When I found it, there were so many brarian of the Denver Medical Society, Mr. volumes of rare books in the room that they Charles Frankenberger, Librarian of the spilled onto the floor and surrounded the desk Brooklyn Academy of Medicine, and others. and from behind them emerged Mr. Ballard. He was tall and lean with a walrus mustache and JAMES FRANCIS BALLARD had the appearance of a character from a 1 878-1955 Dickens novel. Behind this masked appearance was a conOne of the most colorful members of the genial and pleasant New Englander. Mr. Ballard Medical Library Association was James F. was born at Saranac Lake, New York, and at Ballard (Fig. 1). As Dr. 'walton McDaniel said, the age of fourteen (1892) entered the service "The Director of the Boston Medical Library, of the Boston Medical Library as, he told me, Mr. James F. Ballard, died May 15, 1955 with, an "errand boy." He must have pleased his as they used to say, his boots on. A few months superiors for in 1900 his title became Second short of his 77th birthday he still, because he Assistant Librarian, and in 1909, Jim Ballard wanted to, guided the destinies of the great was named Assistant Librarian. Since the Lilibrary which he had served for 63 years" (1). brarian was by tradition a physician, the When I first met Jim Ballard it was in the late trustees found the solution to his further 1930s in his office at 8 the Fenway. At that advancement-in 1928 Mr. Ballard was named time, although it was considered one of the best "Director." Although self-educated, he accumumedical libraries in the United States, its lated a vast sum of knowledge, especially about appearance gave me a feeling of depression. rare medical books. In answer to an inquiry, he There apparently were not enough funds to wrote me on May 8, 1952, as follows: keep it in good physical shape, it had an old musty look, and there were massive piles of Dear Tom, books in the basement. It was hard, too, to find In reply to your letter of recent date, concerning
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PAST PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN the Boston Medical Library Avicenna, with the commentary of Ibn al Nafis,' I regret that I do not know the particular part of the manuscript containing the remarks on the pulmonary circulation. Concerning the Rhazes, Liber Elhavi id est continens artem medicinae, kindly note that this is not the largest incunabula in existence. We have a number of volumes much larger than this one. Probably Castiglioni meant the largest medical incunabula and, if so, I would qualify it by saying, "One of the largest medical incunabula in existence," as we have three or four that approach this volume in size .... Looking forward to seeing you at Lake Placid, and with the hope that you will remember that "you have to bring your own." I remain, Yours sincerely, (signed) James F. Ballard Director
This letter with its "P.B.Y.O.L." reminded me of an earlier Medical Library Association meeting held in New Haven, Connecticut, in March, 1946. Jim Ballard invited some of the men over to his room at the Hotel Taft one evening for drinks. He served his own special brew and it was strong and probably had a rum base. At any rate, I left my hat in his room. I picked it up the next morning and looked at the top of his chiffonier. There were circular marks all over the top and a few empty glasses. The liquid had eaten away the varnish! As Dr. McDaniel noted "Mr. Ballard was twenty years of age, and had been with the Boston Medical Library for six years, when the lineal ancestor of the Medical Library Association came into being, in 1898" (1). Apparently he attended his first MLA meeting in 1914, when he presented a paper "Some Problems in the Administration of Medical Libraries." From that time on Mr. Ballard gave many talks and held countless offices in the Association, including the Presidency, 1937-9. He was a superb presiding officer and Colonel Harold Jones asked him in 1944 at the organization meeting of the Honorary Consultants to the Army Medical Library to be temporary chairman. The Colonel said, "And now I take pleasure in turning the meeting over to a friend who has long had my admiration as a presiding officer. His kindly wit and patience have been Ali ibn-al-Nafis in this commentary was the first to describe the pulmonary circulation. This was first written, it is thought, in 1268 A.D. See Keys, T.E. and
Wakim, K.G.: Contributions of the Arabs to medicine. Proc. Staff Meet. Mayo Clinic 28: 423-437, Aug. 12, 1953. Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(1) Jan. 1975
exhibited on many occasions." For many years Messieurs Ballard and Charles Frankenberger served as watchdogs for the MLA and helped in various and sundry commitments. Mr. Ballard was the Association's unofficial parliamentarian and Mr. Frankenberger always gave a profound thank you in his booming voice, as the last official business of the Association, to the host or hosts who were responsible for the year's meeting. Mr. Ballard believed that the MLA should remain independent of other organizations, and his arguments to keep it that way have stengthened our independence. This has been of untold benefit. In spite of his lack of a formal education, Mr. Ballard could write eloquently, as in 1927 in his article, "Information, Reference and Bibliographic Service" (2). "I come from the 'enemy,' said a man as he walked into my office one afternoon, and I was rather surprised and perturbed for a moment until he finished by saying, 'Now playing at the Hollis Theatre,' and then I knew that my visitor was but another seeker of information of an unusual character. He was the leading man of a stock company then playing at the Hollis Theatre, and as the Captive was to be brought to Boston he wished to inform himself on a special question ...." Perhaps Mr. Ballard will best be remembered for the classification scheme of the Boston Medical Library. The scheme was the result of a gradual development over the years. As far back as 1879 there was a scheme in use in the Boston Medical Library and in 1918 Mr. Ballard had his revision published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. In 1921, a Committee on a Standard Classification recommended that it be adopted as such by the Association. More than 1,000 copies of the third edition were published in 1944-6 by the Boston Medical Library. Of importance, too, was his Catalogue of the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Incunabula in the Boston Medical Library (1944). Our library at the Mayo Clinic was one of many that used the Boston Medical Library system for a number of years. Although we found it necessary to revise it from time to time to keep up with medical advances, it was a practical and worthwhile classification. Later on when medical advances grew by leaps and
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bounds and the Boston system was no longer officer and his assistant during World War II. being revised, we found it was necessary to My first assignment was to assist in the change, and for the last several years have used administration of the Army Medical Library in Washington, D. C., and later as Officer in the Library of Congress Classification. As mentioned later Mrs. Eileen R. Cunning- Charge of the Cleveland Branch of the Army ham received the first Marcia C. Noyes Award Medical Library. Colonel Jones was most kind in 1949 and James Ballard was the second and considerate to me and my family and our recipient. The Award was presented to him at friendship continued until his death on April 5, the Annual Banquet of the 50th Annual 1958, after he and his wife, Mary, had enjoyed Meeting held in Denver, Colorado, June 29, retirement in Orlando, Florida for many years. 1951. Miss Elisabeth Runge in making the Our family frequently visited with the Joneses presentation said (in part): on our trips to Florida, and we were always made to feel at home. Now Mrs. Keys and I The committee ... with due consideration, chose one who has devoted over a half a century to medical often enjoy Mary Jones's company since our librarianship with high effectiveness, success, and retirement in Daytona Beach. Mrs. Jones now leadership .... So to Mr. Ballard, who has given freely resides in Sarasota, Florida. of his talents and energies to the activities of the Harold Jones was born in Cambridge, MassaMedical Library Association and to Medical Librarian- chusetts, and after attending Massachusetts ship as a whole, we present in appreciation this coaster, ash tray, plaque or whatever use he may Institute of Technology from 1894 to 1897 he decide to put this silver tray. We hope that he may enrolled in Harvard Medical School and was long use it with happy memories of the great regard in awarded the M.D. degree in 1901. After two which he is held by his colleagues (3). years spent as a resident and house physician at Children's Hospital in Boston he entered the After Mr. Ballard's death on May i 5, 1955, a field of orthopedics in St. Louis, Missouri in tribute was paid in his memory: 1903, and in 1904 became Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at St. Louis University of the Medical Librarians as Dean Acknowledged School of Medicine. throughout the world, James F. Ballard, self-educated, Dr. Jones decided on an army career and in compiled for the Boston Medical Library one of the country's outstanding collection of medical books and September 1905 entered the Army Medical periodicals, and amassed, personally, a tremendous School for postgraduate study. He was gradfund of knowledge of medical literature that he graciously shared with his confreres throughout the uated in 1906 as an honor student and world and with the student, physician, or scientist commissioned in the Medical Corps. He served who sought his services at 8 the Fenway. That a lasting the Army Medical Corps with distinction for memorial (a fund) to this distinguished librarian would almost forty years until retirement in April be established was only natural, for Mr. Ballard left 1946. behind him a host of grateful and devoted friends (4). His army service included two tours of duty in the Philippine Islands, one in Hawaii, and In a letter to me from Charles Colby, who in France in World War I. In 1916 he was in one used to work for Mr. Ballard, is a poignant command of an ambulance train during General description of him (August 29, 1972): Pershing's expedition into Mexico. During Ballard was a complex and amazing person with World War I he was Commanding Officer of the exceptional learning capacity, great reserves of energy Beau Desert Hospital Center, and when the and enthusiasm, and outstanding leadership capacity. Armistice was signed, he had more than 12,500 At the same time he was a very insecure person who patients under his general supervision. In 1919, resented his lack of formal education, his uncertain he was decorated by the French with the family background and his social non-acceptance by the local medical aristocrats whom he and his library Chevalier Legion of Honor of France. From served so well for so many years. 1927-33, Colonel Jones was chief of the surgical service of the Sam Houston Hospital, COLONEL HAROLD WELLINGTON JONES Fort Sam Houston, Texas and from 1933-6 he 1878-1958 was in charge of the Tripler General Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii. A fortunate chain of circumstances led to my Colonel Jones was appointed Librarian of the being chosen by Colonel Jones (Fig. 2) to be his Army Medical Library in 1936 when this, the 52
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The Mavo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota INTRODUCTION Thomas Edward Keys was for many years the medical librarian at the Mayo Clinic. He is a fine medical historian as well as a distinguished writer. In 1966 he received the coveted Marcia C. Noyes Award from the Medical Library Association. As a past president himself, he is well fitted to write the biographical sketches of these people. He knew them all intimately. N Much of the history of the Medical Library Association is revealed in the article. The past presidents about whom he writes made many outstanding contributions not only to the Association itself, but to medical librarianship as a whole. The portraits he paints of these "giants" indicate the ability, intelligence, personality, and charm of each of them. The Association will always benefit from their efforts on its behalf, and we are grateful to them. To our members who also knew these presidents, happy reminiscing with Tom; to the newer members, a fascinating joumey into the past is ahead for you. SARAH C. BROWN, Past President Medical Library Association ABSTRACT
quality of thoroughness, (4) the grace of humility (Osler, Sir William. Teacher and Student. In his This paper is an account of the accomplishments of Aequanimitas: with Other Addresses to Medical some of the early past presidents of the Medical Students. 3d ed. Philadelphia, Blakiston Company, Library Association known personally to the author in 1904. p. 27-31.). It is thought that our past presidents his career as a medical librarian. It demonstrates the possessed all of these qualities. qualities that made these librarians leaders of our profession and also indicates their personal attributes that contributed to the advancement of medical librarianship. It is hoped that the historical IN a career of thirty-eight years as a medical presentation of some of the giants of our profession librarian I became acquainted with many will inspire present and future presidents and other distinguished members of our profession. Some medical librarians with an understanding of some of I knew better than others. I thought my the qualities necessary to the continuing success of our profession. Sir William Osler, who was a great believer colleagues would be interested in the Past in libraries and librarians and himself a Past President Presidents that I knew rather well. I have of MLA, summed up four qualities in his advice to selected for review those that are now deceased medical students equally applicable to past and or retired. Many distinguished Presidents I present leadership in the library profession-(l) the knew but not as well are not included, such as art of detachment, (2) the virtue of method, (3) the This is the first installment of a two-part article by Mr. Keys on MLA past presidents. The second installment will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin. t Unpublished material from The College of the Medical Book, the Memoirs of Thomas E. Keys. Mr. Keys now resides at 1224 South Peninsula Drive, Daytona Beach, Florida 32018. *
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Miss Marcia C. Noyes, our first woman President, Librarian of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, Dr. W. W. Francis, the Oslerian Librarian of McGill University Medical School, Dr. W. B. McDaniel II, Librarian, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Miss Marjorie Darrach, Librarian of Wayne University Medical Library, Miss Wilma Troxel,
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FIG. 1.-James Francis Ballard, right, chatting with the late Dr. Robert M. Stecher at a reception at the Plaza Hotel, New York City, in June 1945.
Librarian at the University of Illinois Medical the Director's office; it was way in the back School Library, Miss Isabelle Anderson, Li- room. When I found it, there were so many brarian of the Denver Medical Society, Mr. volumes of rare books in the room that they Charles Frankenberger, Librarian of the spilled onto the floor and surrounded the desk Brooklyn Academy of Medicine, and others. and from behind them emerged Mr. Ballard. He was tall and lean with a walrus mustache and JAMES FRANCIS BALLARD had the appearance of a character from a 1 878-1955 Dickens novel. Behind this masked appearance was a conOne of the most colorful members of the genial and pleasant New Englander. Mr. Ballard Medical Library Association was James F. was born at Saranac Lake, New York, and at Ballard (Fig. 1). As Dr. 'walton McDaniel said, the age of fourteen (1892) entered the service "The Director of the Boston Medical Library, of the Boston Medical Library as, he told me, Mr. James F. Ballard, died May 15, 1955 with, an "errand boy." He must have pleased his as they used to say, his boots on. A few months superiors for in 1900 his title became Second short of his 77th birthday he still, because he Assistant Librarian, and in 1909, Jim Ballard wanted to, guided the destinies of the great was named Assistant Librarian. Since the Lilibrary which he had served for 63 years" (1). brarian was by tradition a physician, the When I first met Jim Ballard it was in the late trustees found the solution to his further 1930s in his office at 8 the Fenway. At that advancement-in 1928 Mr. Ballard was named time, although it was considered one of the best "Director." Although self-educated, he accumumedical libraries in the United States, its lated a vast sum of knowledge, especially about appearance gave me a feeling of depression. rare medical books. In answer to an inquiry, he There apparently were not enough funds to wrote me on May 8, 1952, as follows: keep it in good physical shape, it had an old musty look, and there were massive piles of Dear Tom, books in the basement. It was hard, too, to find In reply to your letter of recent date, concerning
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PAST PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN the Boston Medical Library Avicenna, with the commentary of Ibn al Nafis,' I regret that I do not know the particular part of the manuscript containing the remarks on the pulmonary circulation. Concerning the Rhazes, Liber Elhavi id est continens artem medicinae, kindly note that this is not the largest incunabula in existence. We have a number of volumes much larger than this one. Probably Castiglioni meant the largest medical incunabula and, if so, I would qualify it by saying, "One of the largest medical incunabula in existence," as we have three or four that approach this volume in size .... Looking forward to seeing you at Lake Placid, and with the hope that you will remember that "you have to bring your own." I remain, Yours sincerely, (signed) James F. Ballard Director
This letter with its "P.B.Y.O.L." reminded me of an earlier Medical Library Association meeting held in New Haven, Connecticut, in March, 1946. Jim Ballard invited some of the men over to his room at the Hotel Taft one evening for drinks. He served his own special brew and it was strong and probably had a rum base. At any rate, I left my hat in his room. I picked it up the next morning and looked at the top of his chiffonier. There were circular marks all over the top and a few empty glasses. The liquid had eaten away the varnish! As Dr. McDaniel noted "Mr. Ballard was twenty years of age, and had been with the Boston Medical Library for six years, when the lineal ancestor of the Medical Library Association came into being, in 1898" (1). Apparently he attended his first MLA meeting in 1914, when he presented a paper "Some Problems in the Administration of Medical Libraries." From that time on Mr. Ballard gave many talks and held countless offices in the Association, including the Presidency, 1937-9. He was a superb presiding officer and Colonel Harold Jones asked him in 1944 at the organization meeting of the Honorary Consultants to the Army Medical Library to be temporary chairman. The Colonel said, "And now I take pleasure in turning the meeting over to a friend who has long had my admiration as a presiding officer. His kindly wit and patience have been Ali ibn-al-Nafis in this commentary was the first to describe the pulmonary circulation. This was first written, it is thought, in 1268 A.D. See Keys, T.E. and
Wakim, K.G.: Contributions of the Arabs to medicine. Proc. Staff Meet. Mayo Clinic 28: 423-437, Aug. 12, 1953. Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(1) Jan. 1975
exhibited on many occasions." For many years Messieurs Ballard and Charles Frankenberger served as watchdogs for the MLA and helped in various and sundry commitments. Mr. Ballard was the Association's unofficial parliamentarian and Mr. Frankenberger always gave a profound thank you in his booming voice, as the last official business of the Association, to the host or hosts who were responsible for the year's meeting. Mr. Ballard believed that the MLA should remain independent of other organizations, and his arguments to keep it that way have stengthened our independence. This has been of untold benefit. In spite of his lack of a formal education, Mr. Ballard could write eloquently, as in 1927 in his article, "Information, Reference and Bibliographic Service" (2). "I come from the 'enemy,' said a man as he walked into my office one afternoon, and I was rather surprised and perturbed for a moment until he finished by saying, 'Now playing at the Hollis Theatre,' and then I knew that my visitor was but another seeker of information of an unusual character. He was the leading man of a stock company then playing at the Hollis Theatre, and as the Captive was to be brought to Boston he wished to inform himself on a special question ...." Perhaps Mr. Ballard will best be remembered for the classification scheme of the Boston Medical Library. The scheme was the result of a gradual development over the years. As far back as 1879 there was a scheme in use in the Boston Medical Library and in 1918 Mr. Ballard had his revision published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. In 1921, a Committee on a Standard Classification recommended that it be adopted as such by the Association. More than 1,000 copies of the third edition were published in 1944-6 by the Boston Medical Library. Of importance, too, was his Catalogue of the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Incunabula in the Boston Medical Library (1944). Our library at the Mayo Clinic was one of many that used the Boston Medical Library system for a number of years. Although we found it necessary to revise it from time to time to keep up with medical advances, it was a practical and worthwhile classification. Later on when medical advances grew by leaps and
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bounds and the Boston system was no longer officer and his assistant during World War II. being revised, we found it was necessary to My first assignment was to assist in the change, and for the last several years have used administration of the Army Medical Library in Washington, D. C., and later as Officer in the Library of Congress Classification. As mentioned later Mrs. Eileen R. Cunning- Charge of the Cleveland Branch of the Army ham received the first Marcia C. Noyes Award Medical Library. Colonel Jones was most kind in 1949 and James Ballard was the second and considerate to me and my family and our recipient. The Award was presented to him at friendship continued until his death on April 5, the Annual Banquet of the 50th Annual 1958, after he and his wife, Mary, had enjoyed Meeting held in Denver, Colorado, June 29, retirement in Orlando, Florida for many years. 1951. Miss Elisabeth Runge in making the Our family frequently visited with the Joneses presentation said (in part): on our trips to Florida, and we were always made to feel at home. Now Mrs. Keys and I The committee ... with due consideration, chose one who has devoted over a half a century to medical often enjoy Mary Jones's company since our librarianship with high effectiveness, success, and retirement in Daytona Beach. Mrs. Jones now leadership .... So to Mr. Ballard, who has given freely resides in Sarasota, Florida. of his talents and energies to the activities of the Harold Jones was born in Cambridge, MassaMedical Library Association and to Medical Librarian- chusetts, and after attending Massachusetts ship as a whole, we present in appreciation this coaster, ash tray, plaque or whatever use he may Institute of Technology from 1894 to 1897 he decide to put this silver tray. We hope that he may enrolled in Harvard Medical School and was long use it with happy memories of the great regard in awarded the M.D. degree in 1901. After two which he is held by his colleagues (3). years spent as a resident and house physician at Children's Hospital in Boston he entered the After Mr. Ballard's death on May i 5, 1955, a field of orthopedics in St. Louis, Missouri in tribute was paid in his memory: 1903, and in 1904 became Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at St. Louis University of the Medical Librarians as Dean Acknowledged School of Medicine. throughout the world, James F. Ballard, self-educated, Dr. Jones decided on an army career and in compiled for the Boston Medical Library one of the country's outstanding collection of medical books and September 1905 entered the Army Medical periodicals, and amassed, personally, a tremendous School for postgraduate study. He was gradfund of knowledge of medical literature that he graciously shared with his confreres throughout the uated in 1906 as an honor student and world and with the student, physician, or scientist commissioned in the Medical Corps. He served who sought his services at 8 the Fenway. That a lasting the Army Medical Corps with distinction for memorial (a fund) to this distinguished librarian would almost forty years until retirement in April be established was only natural, for Mr. Ballard left 1946. behind him a host of grateful and devoted friends (4). His army service included two tours of duty in the Philippine Islands, one in Hawaii, and In a letter to me from Charles Colby, who in France in World War I. In 1916 he was in one used to work for Mr. Ballard, is a poignant command of an ambulance train during General description of him (August 29, 1972): Pershing's expedition into Mexico. During Ballard was a complex and amazing person with World War I he was Commanding Officer of the exceptional learning capacity, great reserves of energy Beau Desert Hospital Center, and when the and enthusiasm, and outstanding leadership capacity. Armistice was signed, he had more than 12,500 At the same time he was a very insecure person who patients under his general supervision. In 1919, resented his lack of formal education, his uncertain he was decorated by the French with the family background and his social non-acceptance by the local medical aristocrats whom he and his library Chevalier Legion of Honor of France. From served so well for so many years. 1927-33, Colonel Jones was chief of the surgical service of the Sam Houston Hospital, COLONEL HAROLD WELLINGTON JONES Fort Sam Houston, Texas and from 1933-6 he 1878-1958 was in charge of the Tripler General Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii. A fortunate chain of circumstances led to my Colonel Jones was appointed Librarian of the being chosen by Colonel Jones (Fig. 2) to be his Army Medical Library in 1936 when this, the 52
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