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THE WILLIAM A. WEST BASIC SCIENCES BUILDING OF MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE [[image - black and white photograph of three buildings at Meharry Medical College]] [[caption]] RESEARCH LIBRARY, NEW HOSPITAL AND AUDITORIUM OF MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE [[/caption]] The Robert F. Boyd Medical Society of Nashville hosts the NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 81st Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly Hyatt Regency Hotel • Nashville, Tenn. • August 8-13, 1976 In the Spirit of '76 - The National Medical Association Salutes and Celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of Meharry Medical College of Nashville, Tenn. MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE IS 100 YEARS OLD [[image - black and white photograph of an African-American man]] [[image - black and white photograph of an African-American man]] HISTORY Meharry Medical College began in 1876 as the Medical Department of the Central Tennessee College. The College was re-organized as Walden University in 1900. The Medical Department became Meharry Medical College of Walden University. Five years later, the school was established as a separate corporation and has remained so since that time. In 1930, after gifts of three million dollars from the General Education Board, the Rosenwald Fund, the Harkness Foundation and citizens of Nashville and Meharry alumni, the school moved to its present location adjacent to Fisk University on a fourteen acre campus. In 1953, an Alumni Hall with a cafeteria and snack bar, and a men's residence were built. The most recent additions are a research wing and additional facilities for the George W. Hubbard Hospital, a woman's residence hall, a computer center, and a neighborhood health center. Meharry Medical College includes the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry, the George W. Hubbard Hospital, a Graduate Division, and offers courses leading to certification in Medical Technology, X-ray Technology and Dental Hygiene. It has graduated approximately 50 per cent of the Negro physicians and dentists now practicing in this country. The students of this medical school have a nation-wide origin, with a few students from foreign countries, chiefly the West Indies and Africa. It has produced able teachers for its faculty as well as other major medical schools distinguished research scientists and capable administrators. Today, the institution is under rapid and significant expansion with new programs instituted in Family and Community Medicine, a Neighborhood Health Center, a Children and Youth Program in Pediatrics, Multiphasic Screening, Computer Center, Master of Medical Sciences Program, Graduate Degree Programs and Meharry-Fisk Biomedical Science program. LOCATION The present plant, including hospital, lecture hall, classrooms, laboratories and residence for women students was opened in 1931. The campus is bounded on the east by Eighteenth Avenue North, on the north by Meharry Boulevard, on the south by Albion Street and on the west by Twenty-first Avenue North. The college is part of a cultural center. Fisk University campus is immediately east of Meharry and Tennessee State University is a few blocks away.
