1964–65 Volume 89 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

PHIS ACTIVEin theMAYO "MIRACLE'Twelve Members Share in Work ofWorld Famous Rochester Clinic,Medical Educatioh CenterBy R. E. Blackwell, Franklin '24DR. L. EMMERSON WARD, Illinois '39, present chairmanof the Mayo Clinic's Board of Governors, administrativeagency of the organization.THE MAYO CLINIC!These words are probably as well known inAmerica as any words describing an institution,but the use of these words is not limited toAmericans. During the past century, from allsections of the world, individuals seeking medicalcare and members of the medical professionseeking further study and greater competencyhave made the journey to the Mayo Clinic inRochester, Minnesota.It would take many complete issues of THESCROLL to tell the full story of the DoctorsMayo, the Mayo Clinic, and other related organizations.Indeed there have been many books andhundreds of articles in popular lay magazines inaddition to the countless number of professionaljournal reports and studies written aboutthe Mayo Clinic.While most members of * A e certainly knowsomething about the Mayo Clinic, perhaps notmany are aware of the leading role members ofthe Fraternity have played and are playing indaily activities of the famed Rochester medicalcenter.The Mayo Clinic was never actually founded.It just developed from the medical practice ofa pioneer physician, Dr. William Worrall Mayoand his two sons, Dr. William James Mayo andDr. Charles Horace Mayo.In 1845 at the age of 25, William WorrallMayo left his native England for America andspent the next ten years practicing medicine in[170]a number of American communities. Dr. Mayoin 1863 moved to Rochester where he served asexamining surgeon for the Civil War EnrollmentBoard. When the war ended, he remiaisntdin Rochester and in 1889 became physician tothe newly opened Saint Mary's Hospital.During the early sixties the two Mayo sonswere born. It was natural that they should developan interest in medicine and both attendedmedical schools. William James Mayograduated from the University of Michigan in1883, and Charles Horace Mayo graduated fromthe Chicago Medical College in 1888. Aftergraduation each returned to Rochester to jointhe father in a rapidly growing practice concernedchiefly with surgical problems.The expansion started when the two sonsjoined the father, was accentuated in 1892 and1894 when two other highly recognized physiciansjoined the three Mayos, and se^gnty yearslater the organization is still in the process ofexpansion IPerhaps the growth of the Mayo Institutionscan be more easily seen in the space occupiedin Rochester. From 1883 to 1901, the Mayoswere in a modest business building, the CookBlock, then for the next thirteen years theywere housed in a larger and more stately building,the Masonic Temple. In 1914 the first MayoClinic building, a five-story brick building wasoccupied. In 1928, the Mayo Clinic expandedinto its new twenty-story, tower-topped building,adjoining the 1914 structure, planned tohouse ^11 Clinic patients "for all time to come."It soon became evident that the needs couldnot be met even in this great building.In 1939, the two Mayo brothers died but theMayo name was too firmly entrenched in worldmedical circles to fade out with the passing ofthe original Mayo trio of the father who diedin 1911, and sons. In the mid-1950's the newMayo Building was occupied. This building,