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October 1, 2005
Reunion
The Tulane School of Medicine reunited today in the lecture hall of one of it's most prestigious graduates: Dr Michael E DeBakey, class of 1932. The DeBakey building, the original building of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, sits directly across from the medical library where I'm composing this. There were photographers and cameramen, reflections on recent events, some teary eyes and a general sense of history in the making. As a privately funded institution, Tulane's very existance is on the line, but there is no doubt the school will play a critical role in rebuilding New Orleans and we may be in for the education of the century. If you want to apply to the Tulane School of Medicine, we're looking for those with a desire to serve, a vision to build, and a desire to make a difference.
Noone knows when we'll return, but there was some good news on the condition of the higher stories of our downtown New Orleans buildings: the financial aid folks were able to recover documents from their 12th floor offices in the Tidewater building, so that may not have been overcome by molds and fungi. Similarly, the university's IT department has a generator set up on top of 1555 Poydras (the medical school was due to move into our new digs there on the day Katrina hit) and the computers are running, including the web.
Posted by Niels Olson at October 1, 2005 12:16 PM
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Tulane Med will be back, heck it already is back.
The attitude you express in your blog and the herculian efforts of the deans and profs who did all they needed to do to get you and the other students at a lecture just weeks after the disaster speaks to that plus the drama of being in the DeBakey Bldg.
Posted by: james gaulte at October 1, 2005 5:29 PM
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