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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FO"NDATION
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MADISON, Wis.--Two widely known rese ch authorities in the University
of Wisconsin Medical School will head the ampaign among medical faculty to raise
funds to build the proposed Elvehjem A T Center on the Madison campus.
Dr. Van R. Potter, assisant director of the UW's McArdle Laboratory,
is professor of oncology and adistinguished researcher in cancer.
Dyr. Harry A. Waismanprofessor of pediatrics, is director of the
University's Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial Laboratory where long-term studies
of mental retardation have been inaugurated.
Other members of the committee to raise center funds from the medical
staff include: Drs. R. K. Boutwell, oncology; Paul F. Clark, medical
microbiology; Anthony R. Curreri, surgery; Edward S. Gordon, medicine; Sture A. M.
Johnson, dermatology; Milton Miller, psychiatry; Otto Mortenson, associate dean;
Sidney 0. Orth, anesthesiology; Henry A. Peters and Hans H. Reese, neurology.
The campaign for funds from the medical staff is one facet of a larger
r.P11aign for donations from the entire faculty for the proposed art and cultural
cei.ter. The drive among faculty recently kicked off a major drive conducted by
the UW Foundation which will reach also to students, alumni around the world,
and other friends of the University before it ends.
The much needed center requires some $3.3 million in privately
subscribed funds before it can be constructed in a lower campus development. One
million dollars for art galleries from the Brittingham Trusts and $300,000 from
the Kohler Foundation for an art library are among major gifts made to date.
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