Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alice H. Cushing oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: HHC 119
Scope and Contents
This interview with Dr. Alice Cushing (1930-2019) surveys the early part of her career. She was a pediatrician in Albuquerque and chair of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Cushing provides information about the foundation and early development of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in the early 1960s; the pioneer internship and residency programs at the Bernalillo County Indian Hospital (UNM Hospital); the pediatrics community in...
Dates:
1984 July 10
Reginald H. Fitz oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: HHC 131
Scope and Contents
This interview with Dr. Reginald H. Fitz, III (1920-2013) a Dean Emeritus of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, surveys his years as founder-dean of the UNM School of Medicine. Selected as first dean of the new school in 1961 and charged with building it, Dr. Fitz spent seven years in Albuquerque and presided over the planning and preparation period leading down to the school's opening in 1964 and over its first four years of operation. In this interview, Dean Fitz summarizes the...
Dates:
1988 May 14; 1993 May 13