The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 46

10 THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS UTMB CENTENNIAL 1991 UJMB buildings during the early part of the 20th century UTMB, Galveston histories intertwined 1528 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca from Spain is shipwrecked and lands on Galveston Island. 1770 Galveston Bay is charted and named Bay of Galvez for Count Bernardo de Galvez, acting governor of Louisiana. 1782 Under Count Galyez, a colony is established on the island and is eventually known as "Galveztown." 1817 Privateer brothers Jean and Pierre LaFitte's commune of Campeche is established on the island. 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence is signed March 2, and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas is adopted March 16. 1837 Galveston serves as a temporary capital of the Republic of Texas.

1838 Michael Branamour Menard organizes the Galveston City Company, and Galveston is established formally as a city. 1839 Galveston General Hospital becomes the first hospital on the island. Located 1 miles from nearest residential area, it is a small, poorly constructed one- story building with two windows and one door. 1845 Galveston City Hospital is built at Ninth Street and The Strand. 1846 John Sealy, who was born in Pennsylvania on Oct.

18, 1822, arrives in Galveston and goes to work selling dry goods for Henry Hubbell Co. 1860 Medical Department of Soule University is authorized for establishment in Galveston. Because of Civil War and Reconstruction, the school never functions. 1866 Galveston Medical College is established; closes in 1873. 1873 The Texas Medical College is organized with Ashbel Smith, M.D., as president of the Board of Trustees.

1881 Public referendum held on Sept. 6 decides that the Medical Department of The University of Texas is to be located in Galveston. By the same referendum, the main University is to be built in Austin. Texas Medical College closes. 1884 Galveston businessman and entrepreneur John Sealy dies and leaves a $50,000 bequest to "a charitable purpose," thereby providing funding for construction of the original John Sealy Hospital.

1887 The Sealy family offers to donate John Sealy Hospital to the state university if legislature will make appropriations for establishment of a Medical Department in Galveston. 1887 John Sealy II is a member of the first graduating class of Ball High School. 1888 State legislature accepts the Sealys offer to donate John Sealy Hospital to the state university and sets aside $50,000 for establishing the Medical Department. 1889 Texas Medical College is reorganized to staff John Sealy Hospital until the Medical Department of the state university is established. 1890 John Sealy Hospital is completed at a cost of $69,126.36 and opens on January 10.

Costs above the original $50,000 bequest are absorbed by Sealy family members. 1890 John Sealy Hospital Training School for Nurses is established on March 10 and becomes the first nursing school in the Southwest. 1891 Medical Department Building is completed. Medical school classes begin on October 5 with 14 first-year students, five second-year students and four third-year students. 1892 First graduations are held on May 2.

Six students were graduated from the nursing school and three from the medical school. 1893 School of Pharmacy is established as part of the Medical Department. 1897 The Training School for Nurses becomes a branch of The University of Texas Medical Department, making it one of the first nursing schools in the U.S. to be so affiliated with a university. 1897 Brackenridge Home for female students is constructed with $40,000 donation from George W.

Brackenridge of San Antonio. 1900 The great storm of 1900 strikes Galveston Island on September 8, killing more than 6,000 and heavily damaging much of the island, including the Medical Department. The state pays for repairs to the school, and John Sealy II pays for repairs to the hospital, 1901 Dr. Marie Charlotte Schaefer, a 1900-graduate of the Medical Department, becomes the first woman to serve on the faculty. 1901 Negro Hospital is completed with funds provided fay the Galveston General Relief Committee and the New York Chamber of Commerce.

1910 The Flexner Report, an international evaluationiof irrte'dical schools, establishes; thW Medical Department as one of the top schools in the country. 1912 Isolation Pavilion for Contagious Diseases is completed with monies from the Quarantine Fee Fund and supplemental funding by The Board of Regents of The University of Texas from the Available University Fund. 1912 Children's Hospital is built with funds derived from the sale of Red Cross Christmas stamps. 1913 The top two medical school graduates are women; one is a former Russian maid who only a few years earlier could not speak English. 1915 Women's Hospital built with funding provided by the Sealy Family and conveyed to the Board of Regents of The University of Texas.

1915 The first Rebecca Sealy Nurse's Home is built. 1915 A devastating hurricane, thought by some to be stronger than the 1900 Storm, tests Galveston and the Medical Department once again. 1916 Laboratory of Experimental Surgery is built. 1919 Name of Medical De- partment is changed to The University of Texas Medical Branch. 1922 Sealy Smith Foundation is established by John Sealy II and Jennie Sealy Smith.

1924 The first phase in the construction of the Medical Laboratory Building is opened. The second phase is completed in 1932. 1926 John Sealy II dies of pleurisy in Neuilly, France, on Feb. 25. 1931 Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital is constructed on the campus but operated independently of the Medical Branch.

Building given to the University in 1945 and named later for Marvin Lee Graves, M.D. 1932 The second Rebecca Sealy Nurses' Residence is built and replaces the original nurses' home, which was remodeled for use as a psychopathic unit. 1932 Outpatient Clinic is constructed. 1937 New Negro Hospital is opened. 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visits the Medical Branch in May.

1941 An accelerated academic program is established to aid in the military effort of World War II. 1943 Medical units from the Medical Branch are sent into military service. 1943 A "surprise" hurricane strikes Galveston and severely damages the psychopathic hospital, which then closes and relocates to Austin. 1947 French freighter, the S. S.

Grandcamp, explodes in Texas City, and the Medical Branch achieves international recognition for its treatment of the disaster's victims. 1953 Gail Borden Building is constructed to provide modern, air-conditioned space for the library and Biochemistry, Physiology, Microbiology and Pharmacology laboratories. 1953 Second John Sealy Hospital and R. Waverley Smith Pavilion is completed. 1954 The Rosa and Henry Ziegler Hospital is built for patients with diseases of the chest.

1960 Randall Pavilion, formerly the Negro Hospital, is remodeled and reopened as a psychiatric facility. 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Galveston. 1963 Surgical Research Building is completed. 1964 Birth Defects Center, supported by the National Foundation which also sponsors the March of Dimes, is established at the Medical Branch. 1966 Shriners Burns Institute, the first of three such hospitals in the United States, opens on March 20.

1967 John W. McCullough Outpatient Clinic is dedicated on March 10. 1968 The UTMB School of Allied Health Sciences is established. 1968 Jennie Sealy Hospital, named for the daughter of John and Rebecca Sealy, is dedicated on October 25. 1969 The UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is established as a separate school, although graduate programs were begun in 1952.

1969 The UTMB Marine Biomedical Institute is established. 1969 The Alumni Field House, which provides athletic facilities to alumni, staff and students, is dedicated June 11 and paid for, in part, by sales of the book "The University of Texas Medical Branch: A 75- Year History." 1971 The Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Sciences Building is completed to provide interdisciplinary laboratory space to a variety of scientific disciplines. 1972 Moody Medical Library gives the Medical Branch library a permanent home. 1972 Clinical Sciences Building, originally built in 1930 as the Outpatient Building, is extensively remodeled and opened in February. 1973 The Institute for the Medical Humanities is established.

1973 Administration Building is completed. 1978 Child Health Center and John Sealy Tower is dedicated on April 6. 1979 The 1889 Sealy Mansion known as "Open Gates" is donated to UTMB by the Sealy family. 1981 The Learning Center, later renamed William C. Levin Hall, is completed.

Housing the Clark W. Thompson Auditorium, the building serves as a major meeting area for many campus and community activities. 1982 Mary Moody Northen Pavilion opens to serve as a psychiatric patient care and clinical teaching facility. 1983 Ambulatory Care Center is completed. 1983 Hurricane Alicia strikes Galveston.

1983 Texas Department of Criminal Justice Hospital becomes the first facility of its type in the United States. 1986 Obstetrics and Gynecology moves into new labor and delivery suite. 1986 School of Allied Health Sciences and School of Nursing Building is completed. 1986 Following extensive restoration, "Old Red," the historic 1891 Ashbel Smith Building which housed the Medical Branch when it began, is rededicated on April 10. 1989 Ronald McDonald House opens on May 5.

1989 Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Shriners Burns Institute are held on June 3. 1989 The new Room and Trauma Center is be-; gun, with groundbreaking ceremonies taking place on Sept. 13. 1990 UTMB is the first medical school to join the Universities Space Research Association, a national space research consortium. 1991 UTMB Centennial.

1991 Medical Research Building to be dedicated on April 10. Resident nurses are pictured, at left, in a photo taken around 1917. Below, the Galveston City Hospital which was built in 1845. Ambulatory Care Center was completed in 1983.