Surgery goes Sesqui-Medicine at Michigan Fall 1999

Surgery goes Sesqui

Department of Surgery Chair Lazar Greenfield and colleagues in a rendition of “Sensitive, New Age Guys” with a member of the singing group, The Chenille Sisters, at the gala close of Surgery’s Sesqui Celebration at the Crisler Arena in early June.

The 150th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Surgery in the University of Michigan Medical School was celebrated the weekend of June 10 when more than 250 surgery residency graduates and their families and friends returned to campus to visit and to meet with members of the faculty. The weekend featured the unveiling of a new listing of the Medical School’s endowed professorships, the names of those who endowed them and the members of the faculty currently holding them on a series of bronze panels hanging in the main lobby of University Hospital. An identical set of panels has also been installed in the Medical School. They are a gift from the Department of Surgery to the Medical School in honor of their 150th anniversary.

Dean Allen Lichter admires the new wall
of endowed chairs in the Medical School.

Another highlight of the weekend included the installation of the George E. Wantz Collection in a main hallway of the Alfred E. Taubman Center. The installation is entitled Armamentarium Chirurgicum (“arsenal of surgery”) and features a few of the many surgical instruments and antiquarian books collected by Dr. Wantz (M.D. 1946) over the past 40 years and given to the Medical School’s Historical Center for the Health Sciences in 1997.

George Wantz cuts the ribbon to officially open the exhibit of surgical instruments and texts that form part of the collection given by him to the Medical School and entitled “Armamentarium Chirurgicum, The George E. Wantz, M.D. Collection.” Howard Markel, director of the Historical Center for the Health Sciences and associate professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, looks on.

Many of the faculty whose teaching and research have been enhanced by the support afforded by an endowed chair
assemble for a group photo before the new wall in the lobby of University Hospital listing all endowed chairs in the Medical School, those who made the gifts to endow them, and those faculty holding them.