1 audiocassette (80 min.) , 1 transcript (25 pages), correspondence, 1987 October 30

File — Folder: 1194

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This interview with Dr. Leslie L. Daviet (1911-2002), a general medicine/general surgery practitioner of Las Cruces, New Mexico, surveys his life and career. Arriving in Las Cruces in 1937, Dr. Daviet practiced 43 years in that community until his retirement in 1980. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Daviet's personal and professional backgrounds; the old-time physicians, especially Drs. Robert McBride and Charles Gerber, and the medical facilities of Las Cruces in the late 1930s and 1940s; the nature, focus, and development of his practice over four decades; his service on the New Mexico Board of Medical Examiners; and others.