;  F. F O R  E      1925
 

Samuel Bard,  ly^z-iSzi.

Samuel Bard founded King's College (later Columbia) Medical Faculty
in 1767. He later served as president of the College of Physicians &
Surgeons (P&S), a rival institution founded in 1807. When Columbia's
medical school was merged into P&S in 1814, Dr. Bard conriniicd as leader
of the combined schools until his death. He still found time to be
President George Washington's persona! phvsician and to write the first
important American obstetrics textbook.
 

Anna  C.  Maxwell,   i8p-igig.

A pioneer of American nursing, Anna Maxwell directed the Prcsbvterian
Hospital School of Nursing, predecessor ro the Columbia University
School of Nursing, for almost 50 years from its founding in i8gz until 1921.