THE MEHARRY NEWS

TARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 192. NUMBER 1

VOLUME 7 JAN

DR. JOHN J. MULLOWNI
President of Meharry Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical Colleges.

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NEW PRESIDENT AT MEHARRY
/ * INSTALLED.

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Brief and Simple Ceremonies Mark
Induction of Dr. John Mullowney.

(Nashville Banner)
In brief and simple fashion Dr.

John Mullowney, formerly of Girard
Medical College of Philadelphia, was
installed as president of Meharry
Medical College last week in the
auditorium at the college, succeeding
Dr. G. W. Hubbard.

Judge Robert Ewing, president of
the board of trustees of Meharry, was
in charge of *the ceremonies, and in-
troduced the speakers in pleasant
fashion. The installation proceedings
were brief and simple because of the
fact that the trustees have set aside
a day during the coming commence-
ment period in May when the work
of the retiring president, Dr. G. W.
Hubbard, who has served for fifty
years, can be fittingly celebrated and
the new president welcomed.

Dr. W. F. Tillett of the theological
department of Vanderbilt University
and one of the trustees of Meharry
was first speaker. He said that there
were two things absolutely necessary
for the successful progress of an edu-
actional institution, namely, men and
money, and he voiced his pleasure that
Meharry was today entering upon a
new career of usefulness on account of
the fact that $500,000 additional from
various sources became operative at
this time. The speaker paid a splen-
did *tribute to the retiring president,
and said that to his mind there was
no man in America todey who had
done more conspicuous and notable
service for his country than Dr. Hub-
bard. Dr. Tillett welcomed Dr. Mul-
lowney on behalf of Vanderbilt, and
said it was his belief that Meharry
was now in a fair way to redouble its
past benefits to the South.

Dr. Bruce R. Payne of Peabody
College followed Dr. Tillett on the pro-
gram and he spoke briefly and to the
point in regard to the work and scope
of Meharry as an influence in the com-
munity in which it is found. He spoke
very highly of the splendid work that
had been done by the retiring presi-
dent and of the fine qualities pos-
sessed by the incoming one, but stat-
ed his conviction that the institution
was greater than any man and found
its greatness in the service it could
render. Dr. Payne welcomed Dr.
Mullowney to what he called the great-
est field for service in the world to-
day, and he likewise prophesied great
things for the institution .under its
new leader.

Judge Ewing next formally intro-
duced the new president, Dr. John
Mullowney, to the faculty and stu-

' dent body of Meharry and asked for

him their most earnest support and

co-operation. Both faculty and students

promised to do their utmost in carry-
ing the administration of Dr. Mul-
lowney to the most successful con-
clusion that could. be wished.

Dr. Mullowney then spoke briefly
of his pleasure and appreciation of
the honor that had been paid him by
the call to the presidency of Meharry.
He said that he had come to the col-
lege only after a most thorough in-
vestigation of its standing and _ pos-
sibilities, and that he was convinced
that it had a great future.

Dr. Mullowney told of his previous
work along lines similar to his pres:
ent position, and he declared his pur:
pose in coming to the college to be
the securing of closer harmony and

better co-operation between the mem-

bers of all races to the end that this
country might be brought to its high
est possible state of development. He
also pledged his best efforts to raise
the standard of Mekarry and to secure

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a rating of A from the American
Medical Association. His remarks
were received with,great enthusiasm
and the impression he made was a
very good one.

J. C. Napier welcomed Dr. Mullow-
ney to Nashville on pehalf of the Ne
groes of the city and promised him
their interest and support for the
work he had come here to do.

The auditorium at the college was
packed to its capacity to welcome Dr,
Mul!owney to his new work, and the
audience was entertained before the
ceremonies began by splendid instru-
mental and vocal music given by the
students of Meharry.

THE NEW PRESIDENT.

On Tuesday morning February lst
the trustees of Meharry, through its
Chairman of the Board, Hon. Robert
Ewing, introduced to the Faculty and
student body Dr. John J. Mullowney
as president. Dr. Mullowney enters
upon the work where Dr. Hubbard,
president emeritus leaves off.

The outlook is hopeful. The faculty
and students will use every effort to
help the new president make the most
of the work.

MEHARRYS NEW PRESIDENT, DR.
JOHN J. MULLOWNEY.

(From Christian Educator.)
On the retirement of President Geo.

W. Hubbard, February 1, 1921, after.

forty-six years of heroic and success-
ful guidance of Meharry Medical Col-
lege, the management of the institu-
tion will be assumed by Dr. John J.
Mullowney, who comes from the posi-
tion of Head of the Department of
Science, and Professor of Chemistry
and Biology at Girard College, Phila-
delphia.

Dr. Mullowney was born in Eng-
land forty-two years ago, and comes to
Meharry in the prime of life, and after:
a training and experience that war-
rants the expectation that his services
at Meharry will put that school in
line with the best medical colleges of
the Country.

Like many other men of influence
and power in the world, Dr. Mulloweny
comes of a large family and was
obliged to make his own way in the
world. :

When he was but one year old, his
mother was left a widow with eight
children. At eight years of age he
was. placed in an orphanage in Eng-
land and a year later sent to Canada
and placed on a farm, where he had
put few opportunities for schooling.
At seventeen he went to Waterloo,
Quebec, and served aS messenger and
clerk in a store at twenty-five cents a
day and board. Here his desire for
an education was aroused, and he
moved to the United States. In a
village in New Hampshire he worked

at anything that would supply food

and clothing and give him an oppor-
tunity to go to school, until he grad-
uated in the high school. Like many
another ambitious lad, he was for-
tunate in gaining the sympathy and
help of the Methodist pastor, through
whom, and the principal of the high
school, he was encouraged to #0 on
farther with his studies.

At this time, on account of over-
work and close application to studies,
his health gave way and he was
threatened with tuberculosis of the
lungs. However, his determination
not to die and his indomitable per-
sistence in deep breathing, and out-
door exercises warded off the disease,
and he was able to enter Phillips
Exeter Academy with $20 and a pur-
pose to become a doctor and thus: help
others into that better health which
he now enjoyed. With the help of a

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ycholarship and what he could earn
during vacation in the summer hotels
of New Hampshire, he was enabled to
graduate in 1902.

The Board of Education of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church loaned him
part of the money necessary to pay
his way through his medical course
at the Medical Department of the
University of Pennsylvania. During
this period he became interested in
Christian Missions, was a delegate to
the Student Volunteer Convention at
Toronto, Canada, and definitely offered
himself to the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church for medical missionary work
in China.

He went to China and for three and

a half years served in the Hopkins
"Memorial Hospital (Peking), and
taught in the North China Union
Medical College, and also did service
in the Y. M. C. A.

During his residence in Peking he
assisted in staying the ravages of an
outbreak of Bubonic Plague. In
recognition of these and other simi-
lar services in connection with the
Red Cross, the Chinese Republic has
granted him appropriate certificates
and medals.

Upon his return to America he
took special training in Public Health
and Preventive Medicine. He has oc-
cupied. important positions in the
Health Departments of Philadelphia
and the State of Pennsylvania, which
he resigned to become Professor of
Chemistry and Biology and Head of
the Department of Science of Girard
College.

For many years Dr. Mullowney was
a member of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, but on his return from
' China he became a member of the
Society of Friends. He has written
The Plague in North China,
Modern Hospitals for the Chinese by
the Chinese, Temptations and Dis-

eases Common to Students, Pro-
gress of Civilization Depends on Pub-
lic Health, and many other pamph:ets
and addresses on subjects kindred to
his profession.

He is particularly well equipped for
the great field open to him at Meharry,
by his early strugg!es his success in
winning an education, his travels and
experiences at home and abroad, his
Christian character and hearty sym-
pathy with the highest and best values
in a life of human helpfulness.

A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
OF MEHARRY COLLEGES.

Tio all Meharry Alumni and Friends
of our Colleges :

I have accepted the Presidency of
the Meharry Colleges, which your
Trustees have tendered to me. I ac-
cepted jt as a gift of stewardship and
as a great opportunity for SERVICH.
But I realize very keenly that I am
only a SERVANT of our common
humanity and of our Heavenly
FatherA medium, perhaps, through
whom I hope He will bring to you and
to your Alma Mater new honors and
larger opportunities for serving the
common people of our beldved Repub-
lic. But you know and I know that
I cannot, that even God Himself can-
not help a people until the people de-
termine to act for themselves; the
people must first determine to take
the necessary steps for self improve-
ment. :

And so, my friends, as I try, by
the help of God, to take up the task
where your beloved teacher and loyal
friend, Dr. George W. Hubbard, leaves
off, I appeal to all Alumni and to
every friend of the great Negro race

and to every true friend of our com-

mon humanity to join: hands with me
that, together, we may place Meharry
Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical

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Colleges in the forefront of American
Professional Colleges.

Do YOU ask: How can I help? I
answer by quoting a paragraph from a
letter received this morning from Dr.
William Pepper, Dean of the Medical
School of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and a member of the Councils,
on Medical Education and Hospitals,
who recently visited Meharry and to
whom I had written for a word of
advice as to just how I could help to
place Meharry Medical College in Class
A. His answer follows, and no better
answer could be given to those friends,
Negro or caucasian, who sincerely are
seeking a good way to help me and
our loyal teachers in placing Meharry
where we all want to see herIN
CLASS A. '

Tt seems to me, as is the case in
so many schools, money is what is
needed. Without money you cannot
do much to improve a_ medical
school. You have got to pay salaries,
you have got to buy equipments.
William Pepper, Dean Univ. of Penn.

Medical School.

Friends THINK, if only every mem-
ber of the Negro population now
estimated at 12,000,000 would merely
give ONE DOLLAR A PIECE, or if
only every tenth person of the Negro
population were to give JUST ONE
DOLLAR A YEAR for the next five
years toward our ENDOWMENT
FUND why, then, Meharry could get
the men and could get the equipment
of which Dr. Pepper speaks and which
she so sore!y needs!

I have pledged to Meharry my best
talents and every ounce of. energy and
every cent I can spare from my fami-

lys needs. What will each one of

YOU do; how many of your friends
and neighbors will YOU get to pledge,
and not only to pledge, but to GIVE,
and to GIVE TILL IT HURTS to Me-

harry Medical, Dental and Pharmaceu-
tical Colleges?

Finally, I hope that every Meharry
graduate will plan to be with us at
Commencement on May 19th, because
the Trustees are planning to make it
an impressive occasion in honor of
Dr. and Mrs. Hubbard. I am,

Hopefully yours, ;

JOHN J. MULLOWNEY, President.

There is no time like the present
for beginning a good deed. Have you
paid the p'edge you made toward the
Endowment Fund of Meharry College?
If not, PLEASE DO SO; DO IT NOW.

If you have paid the last pledge,
begin a new one NOW, for every body
must give to Meharry, and Give til it
hurts, if we are to get into Class A
College, the fundamental requirement
is simply this; $500,000 more endow-
ment.

Dear old Dr. Hubbard is so stirred
up over this matter that only this
morning he expressed his desire to
give $200 out of meager allowance to-
ward the Endowment Fund. Think of
it men! This dearold saint, after
spending a life time for our welfare,
giving again to the very limit out of
the meager allowance given him in his
old age! It is not enough to thank God
for such men, WE MUST FOLLOW
THEIR EXAMPLE, and GIVE, GIVE,
GIVE!

And here is our new President, Dr.
Mullowney, who has pledged to our
ENDOWMENT FUND the sum _ of
$10.00 per month for the next five
years; the same to be paid quarterly!
Dr. Mullowney has a family to care
for and to educatethree growing
boys, we all know something of the
expense that this means; he is giv-
ing his every ounce of energy and
strength to Meharry, and still feels
that he must give part of his moder-
ate salary to help OUR ENDOW-
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MENT FUND so that Meharry shall
be placed in Class A! Surely the action
of these men ought to stir every friend
of the Negro race to Gve, Give, Give!

Below is a convenient subscription
form, send as much money NOW as
you possibly can, for, after all, even
pledges will not pay salaries or buy
apparatus and equipment, only money
will do that; but also. make your
pledge to put aside each month and
to pay quarterly for the next five
vears, every cent you can possibly
spare.

This is the greatest dnaneniee that
has ever come to the Negro people.
Here is a great Medical College, the
only one to prepare Doctors for about
8,000,000 of our people, a college that
is practically taught by Negro people,
whose Board of Trustees has a good
percentage of Negro men. Surely we
can, and we will supply the funds
necessary to place it in Class A Col-
leges.

How many will cut out the follow-
ing lank and having filled it in
properly will send in their money and
their pledge immediately for it is
miost important that we get into action
at once. Make all checks or P. O.
Money Orders to G. W. Claridge,
Treasurer of the College.

To G. W. eae Treas. of Me-
harry Colleges:

I am herewith sending ......
(Check, P. O. Money Order, Cash, a)
the sum of $ to be placed to-
ward the Endowment Fund of the
Meharry Colleges.

I solemnly promise to give. to the
Endowment Fund of the Meharry
College the sum per month indicated
by an (x) on the schedule appearing
below, the same to be paid quarterly
promptly, that is, at the end of each
three months; I willl promise to do
this personally each three months and

thus save the expense of the College
notifying me; for a period of five
years, so help me God:

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EXCERPTS

The half year examinations are
over. The teachers and students wear
a pleasing countenance, we hope they
are Satisfied with the results.

The Hospital Staff has been form-
ed with the following departments:
Supt., Head Nurse, House Physician,
General Surgery, Regional Surgery,
Obstetrics, Gynaecology, G. U., Pedia-
trics, Mental Diseases. The Staff
meets bi-monthly,

MBHARRY CLINICS.

The Meharry Clinic will be held
March 7 to 13th. Distinguished visi-
tors will be present and arrangement
has been perfected to make the week
profitable.

During Commencement week appro-
priate services will be held in honor
of the retiring president, and in-
auguration services will be held in
honor of the new president. The
Alumni Association will make an
effort to secure the attendance of a
large number of its members. Two
thousand five hundred men and women
have graduated from the institution
since its founding. 'The Association
is now 25 years old. It has engaged
in every constructive movement since
its organization. It helped to enlarge
the dental and pharmaceutical build-

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ings the second time, helped in the
erection of both sections of the Hub-
bard Hopsital, helped in erecting and
equipping the Auditorium and Labora-
tories, helped with the Anderson
Anatomical Halll, and they are now en-
gaged in erecting the beautiful Hub-
bard Alumni Home, besides contribut-
ing to these worthy enterprises it has
contributed above $15,000 toward an
adequate Endowment Fund and have
sent in pledges amounting to $6,000
which they will surely redeem. 

At the next Annual meeting a
charter and revision of the Constitu-

ition will be considered. Let any

graduate of any of the departments
take due notice and begin now to

think and plan for changes in the

mew Constitution. Read the present
one in the 1920 catalogue and _ be
prepared to help make an up-tio-the-
minute Constitution.

The new Constitution should  pro-
vide for a charter and an_ employ-
ment and information office.

This work should be planned at the

next Annual meeting in May, 1921.

This important task should not be left

for a few, but every graduate should ..

bestir himself and have representa-
tion, Any graduate who holds a de-

gree from any department of Meharry .

is eligible for membership in The Me-
harry. Alumni Association, and may
become an active member by paying
an annual fee of $1.00 and signing or
authorizing some member to sign the
constitution for him.

THE HUBBARD ALUMNI HOME.

We made an URGENT CALL to
every loyal son and daughter of Me-
harry, pleading with you most ear-

mestly to make as large a contribution
to this cause and to make it IM-
MEDIATELY. If you have already
given a small gift make it a little
larger, and if you have not yet given
anything, please do so at once.

To date we have only received
$6,571.17 and we must have at least
$12,000. You can readily see what re-
mains to be done. It has always been
one of dear Dr. Hubbards virtues
never to undertake anything at Me-
harry that he could,not pay for; it
will break his heart if he learns that
we began on a house for him that we
cannot finish for lack of funds. We
have exhausted practically all of the
funds that have been paid in and he
work on the home must cease unless
you send your checks or your money
immediately. We are sure that you.
will come forward, just as soon as you
learn of this real need.

Mail checks or P. O. Money Orders
to Miss Tillie Lloyd, Treasurer Me-
harry Medical College, Nashville,
Tenn. .

Awaiting your prompt reply and
your gift.

Sincerely,
Hubbard Golden Jubillee Club.

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The President would be glad to re-
ceive any suggestions from the Alumni
as to how he could improve the in-

struction courses at Meharry. Most of
you, because of your practical exper-
jence before State Board Examiners
know the Weak Spots in our instruc-
tion metnods. Tell us NOW how you
think this could be improved, and we
will try to make them better.

Your President.

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IMPROVED OUTLOOK FOR ME-
HARRY MEDICAL COLLEGES.

After forty-four years of continuous
service as founder and builder of the
Meharry Medical Colleges, a medical
school for Negroes at Nashville, Tenn.,
Dr. George W. Hubbard retired frem
its presidency, February 1. Dr. Hub-
bard is having the satisfaction of see-
ing the culmination of his hopes re-
garding an assured permanency of the
medical school and the brighter pros-
pects for its higher standing as an edu-
cationa! institution. Dr. Hubbards
suecessor is Dr. John J. Mullowney,
formerly head of the department of
science and frofessor of chemistry

and biology at Girard College, Phila-

delphia. Dr. Mullowney is 42 years of
age and was selected because of his
hearty sympathy with Negro educa-
tion and his special fitness for the
work as head of the medical school.
The financial status of the college has
been greatly improved by the gifts of
$150,000 each from the General Edu-
cation Board and the Carnegie Foun-
dation for the Advance of Teaching
which, with the $200,000 raised by the
Board of Education for Negroes of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, has estab-
lished a tota! endowment of $500,000.

(The Journal) of the, American
Medical Association.

HUBBARD ALUMNI HOME.