The Faculty of Medicine Founder’s Archive (FMFA) wishes to thank the following institutions and individuals for their invaluable contributions to this project.

We gratefully acknowledge the Department of Heritage through the Canadian Culture Online Program, Library and Archives Canada and the Canadian Council of Archives for their financial support for this project. The funding made it possible to digitize and make available to the public, photographs, videos, and textual material, such as journal articles, publications, and newspaper articles, which reflect the establishment of the Medical School at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

To those whose records have been donated to the archive, a very special thank-you; it because of you that that project began. This website was created using primarily archival material. Biographical sketches are written for those individuals, whose records are held at the Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive and which were used in the creation of this virtual exhibit.

Partnerships:

The Lillian Stevenson Nursing Archives and Museum
The Lillian Stevenson Nursing Archives and Museum, Dr. Leonard A. Miller Centre, St. John’s, NL, under the direction of Janet Story, archivist, graciously agreed to be a partner in the creation of this exhibit. The Health Sciences Information and Media Service (HSIMS), Faculty of Medicine, digitized a set of 263 negatives about the construction of the Health Sciences Centre but the images were in no particular order. 

Upon the kind invitation from Janet Story to come to the Lillian Stevenson Nursing Archives and Museum we discovered index card size description sheets containing both the titles to every photograph and corresponding negative numbers. We also discovered another set of negatives, which were numbered. As a result, the titles and images could now be matched.  The cooperation of the Lillian Stevenson Nursing Archives and Museum made it possible to put this collection together in its original order. The title for each photograph is quite detailed, thus demonstrating clearly the progression of the construction of the Health Sciences Centre.

The Centre for Newfoundland Studies
The Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, under the direction of Joan Ritcey, head, kindly agreed to be a partner in the creation of this exhibit. They contributed Convocation Programmes so that, combined with the programmes in the Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive collections, we were able to create a complete set containing all medical graduates from the first Bachelor of Medical Science in 1971 to the first Doctor of Medicine in 1973, and then continuing until 1980 for both degrees. These programmes were digitized in full.

Archives and Manuscript Division
Archives and manuscript Division, Queen Elizabeth Library II, Memorial University of Newfoundland, under the direction of Bert Riggs, (head, Archives & Manuscripts Division, QE II Library), graciously agreed to be a partner in the creation of this exhibit. Archivists Linda White and Gail Weir helped us find, in a huge unprocessed collection, negatives for images related to the 10^th anniversary of the first graduating class of medical students in the Faculty of Medicine. The image of Dr. Ian Rusted, used in our exhibit and in our permanent poster display, was also reproduced from a negative held by this division.

Health Sciences Information and Media Service (HSIMS)
Health Sciences Information and Media Service kindly agreed to provide images for this project. They also, over the duration of this project, provided an enormous amount of time in order for this exhibit to be available to the public.

Several HSIMS people gave their time to this project:
John Crowell (biomedical photography, eLearning, websites)
Edwin Davis (computer support)
Sylvia Ficken (medical illustration and graphics)
Sharon Gray (information officer and editor of MUNMED)
Eugene Ryan (biomedical photography, AV support, eLearning, web pages, media consulting)

Individuals

The following also gave their time and expertise: Dr. A. M. House, Dr. William Marshall, Dr. J. Martin, Mr. Ralph Moore, Mr. Charles (Chick) Campbell, Ms. Michele Hutton, and individuals at the Federal Department of Health.

To Sheila Gushue, the first Information Officer for the Faculty of Medicine, who began with a three month contract and stayed fifteen years, I am so thankful that you kept all those documents and have donated them to the archive – a written legacy of those years.

A very special thank-you to Dr. Brian Payton who not only provided so many photographs and identification of individuals wherever  possible, but also his time in order to help me understand the workings of the early days of the Medical School.

Also, my many hours spent with Dr. Ian Rusted were invaluable treasured times and helped me to understand what the Faculty of Medicine was all about. 

Institutions

Queen Elizabeth II Library
Don Walsh, who uploaded documents, photographs and videos into the software package contentdm, a very big thank-you. Contentdm is a versatile digital collection management software package designed to accommodate various types of virtual projects.

Maritime History Archive
Heather Wareham, Archivist

Health Sciences Library
George Beckett (associate university librarian, health sciences)
Pamela Morgan (information resources librarian)
Alison Reid (public services librarian)
Sherry Squire-Grace (administrative staff specialist II)
Lori Fleming (librarian assistant III)
Donna Morgan (library assistant VI)

Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive
Kory Penney (Research Assistant - Scanning Technician, contractual), who scanned all the images before they were uploaded into contendm.
Brian Hammond (MUCEP student)
Emmanuel Sala (SCP student)