Wilburt cornell davison (1 Ergebnisse)

very good dark blue cloth with gold cover titles. previous owner's gift inscription inside front cover from a graduating student to his parents, daed 1984. nicely INSCRIBED over 4-lines on front endpaper to Dr. and Mrs.Charles T. Ozaki, dated 1984, and SIGNED by editor Jay Arena. DAVISON, WILBURT CORNELL. Davison of Duke: his reminiscences. Edited by Jay M. Arena and John P. McGovern. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Medical Center, 1980, 1st edition (no further printings noted on copyright page), xvi, 283pp., . A wonderful document of the line of connection between Middle America, the wider world, and immigration into the US. - Deals with Duke University Medical Center, through the life and work of Davison, Dean of the Medical School from 1927-1960. Davison was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, studied at Princeton, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins. - Inscription from the editor is to Dr. Charles Takeo Ozaki, born in Florida, and one of the University of Florida's College of Medicine's first graduates and the college's first Japanese-American graduate; son of first generation Japanese immigrants; in World War II he served in the U.S. Army's distinguished 442nd Regiment. His son went on to become a leading vascular surgeon. The book is a material document of the tremendous value of immigration into the US across the last century.…