AA&,&i& 1939

NOV 134Y

I The biggest scoop I've been ablcto &; up for
some time concerns Dr. Virginid Apga who has
ibeen appointed to full professorship, Dept of
Anesthesiology, Columbia U. C. of Physi&nr
and Surgeons. Jimmy is the first woman to be
appointed full professor at Columbia.

Jimmy was in attendance during a ser;oOr op
eration Marjorie Tuck Bodel had. Jinuny write
that "it's not often I give a patient eight trans-
fusions during one operation, as we did to Mar-
jorie.'' Dr. Apgar reports that the patient L

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Congratulations to Virginiu Apgar upon her
recent appointment as professor of surgery at
Physicians and Surgeons. We hear she's rhe fim

`I woman so appointed? How about it, DK. Apgar? .-

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The Blackwell Aw~d~uhkhd in 1949,
goes each year to women physicians who
have made significant contributions to medi-
cine. It is named after Dr. Elizabeth Black-
well, the first woman to receive a medical
doctor's degree and founder of the New York
Infirmary, which is staffed by women physi-
cians. Virginia's mother and her cousin, Win-

$ ifred Shaw (MHC '26), attended the cere-
mony.

Jimmy is chief of the division of congenital
malformations for the National Foundation,
with headquarters in New York, and k the
creator of the Apgar Score, a method of eval-
uating an infant within 60 seconds after
birth. In February she was interviewed by
Patricia McCormack of United Press Inter-
national, and the story appeared in the New
York World-Zclegram. On the subject of
birth defects, she said, "Birth defect8 are the
largest single unmet childhood medical need
today. About 250,000 children are born each
year with some birth defect." She stressed the
need for a long-range propam of scientific

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.4naesthesiologists. Her achievements take her
far afield-Los AnKelcs, Israel, Iordan, Leb-

valuable possession of the human race. This
pmious material was developed over mil-
lions of years of trial and error. Now Miss
Carson shows us clearly that in one short
speck of time, a quarter of a century, we
have been racing towards a potentially irre-
vaxible situation which threatens to do away
with, or at least alter, life as we know it now.
Can we be intelligent, discriminating and
courageous enough to meet this challenge?
Thank you, Miss Carson. for opening our
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     Dr. Virginia Apgar, director of
     the National Foundation of March
of Dimes' division of coneenital malfoma-

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tions, received an honoran-degree of Doctor
of Medical' Sciences this June from the
, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Jimmy was cited for her "outstanding work

in public health and-m-dical education ."

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    You never(know where '29 will
K \ turn up next. An Associated Press
story last August quoced Showman Mike Todd
as giving special credit to our Jimmy Apgar for
her work in saving tha life of the premature
baby born LO his wife, Lp Taylor, screen star.
Todd said Dr. Virginia Apgar "worked over
the baby for 14 minutes before she hollered.
Those were the longest 14 minutes of my life."
The story went on, "Dr. Apgar is a resuscita-
tion specialist. She breathed life into the tiny
infant." Jimmy is professor of anesthesiology,
Glumbu University, and clinical  director of
anesthesia, Presbyterian Hospital, New York

City.