[Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, March 1954] Page: 1 of 2
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March, 1954
Dear All:
This is a rough world: we are having gorgeous spring weather, but it is very
dry. We are way behind in rain. We have already had one dust storm. It looks as
though the dust bowl may blow again this summer. Maybe we are just using too much
water. But after all one can't subsist solely on Scotch, even though some try! And
the Asiatic tensions get worse, and we are going to try out an H-bomb! You realize
o' course that you who dwell in the big cities are non too safe! Maybe I am just
betting old.
Like all medical institutions we are having budget troubles. As I said in
closing when we accepted our bid new hospital building, "There will never be any-
thing wrong with this place that money can't cure". Sometimes it is hard to get
what is needed, however, and it does get so tiresome trying to educate a new bunch
of Regents and Legislators every two years. Besides, I do get badly upset when I
can't Let all that I want for those on the staff who deserve it.
The meetings in Atlantic City may be interesting Ben is trying to arrange for
a James Blake Society dinner. The Federation Society dinners are on Tuesday evening;
April 13th; the Pharmacology Society dinner is Wednesday, April 14th, so maybe we
will have to have the James Blake Society dinner either Monday, the 12th, or
Thursday, the 15th. Why not Monday, the 12th? The dinner for the Pharmacology
Society on Wednesday, April 14th, has me plenty worried. I'm trying to work up a
talk that will be light, informative brilliant, stimulating, full of wisdom, and o'
particular interest pharmacologists. This is a lousy undertaking.
This is a busy month coming up. We have Regents meeting now, a session in Dal-
las with the Southwestern Medical Foundation, and the Rural Health Congress, the
Ogdens will be here from Ohio State, the Medical Record Librarians meet with us,
Doctor Douglas Guthrie, the English historian of medicine, will be with us, there
will be a big session of the Princeton alumni in Houston, and then we have the big
conference with the Josiah Macy Foundation on "Medical and Psychological Team Work
in the Care of the Chronically Ill". Following this there will be the meeting here
of the Association of American Anatomists, followed by another Regents meeting, and
then the plastic surgeons. There is never a dull moment.
George is running an excellent course in pharmacology this semester. He has it
well outlined, and is putting rich variety into it by a lot of outside speakers. Ber
and Larry Weaver are preparing a manuscript for a monograph on "Diagnostic Drugs".
This should be really useful. It is amusing how pharmacologists still are reluctant
to think about chemicals used for diagnostic purposes as drugs. Just like the docs.
We're having quite a local clean-up. This time I'm laying low. Some of the
local service groups pulled some wild stag parties, with the Police Commissioner
right down in front. Quite a scandal. Just part of the local indifference to decent
behavior standards.
Here's to seeing you at the Hotel Dennis. May the James Blake Society flourish.Faithfully yours,
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Leake, Chauncey Depew, 1896-1978. [Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, March 1954], letter, March 1954; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1220900/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Medicine%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Moody Medical Library, UT.