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windows because of the bright sun shining from the south. Professor Gies occupied this office in Biochemistry
for many years, vacating it in 1928 for new quarters in the medical center up north in Manhattan.
After the College was moved in 1928 to the new Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center at its present location,
632 West 168th Street, Professor Gies had this smaller office (entrance depicted on left), Room 5-428, in the
Biochemistry Department. He still edited the Journal and conducted the affairs of the IADR from here until
1936 when he retired "because of age" as he used to say. But he used this office address for another decade. He
undoubtedly entered this "new" building through the picturesque archway (on the right) bearing the historic
inscription.
William Gies of Columbia University listed himself as the Executive Officer of the Board of Editors and
remained as Editor until 1935. The other Editors were Theodor Rosebury, also of Columbia, the "Interim
Editor" during the latter part of 1935; Hamilton B. G. Robinson, initially of the University of Rochester, then of
Washington University, and finally of Ohio State University, was "the longest Editor" (1936-58); Frank J.
Orland of the University of Chicago was the last Editor of the Journal's first fifty years (1958-69); and last, but
certainly not least, David F. Mitchell of Indiana University is the current Editor, 1969-.
The first issue of the JDR is pictured, and the rest of the Journal's activity is accounted for to a
considerable extent, in the pages of its "Fifty Year History." However, there are certain facets and additional
information that can and should be elaborated upon here.
By the fiftieth year in Association history, the Journal and the Association seemed to be very closely
related, but this was not the way it had always been. The Journal was founded some twenty-one months before
the Association. Moreover, a unique observation can be made that the Association was barely mentioned in the
JDR until a summary of its founding meetings was printed for the first time 6 in 1926 and repeated in 1928 along
with a summary of its general meetings to date. 7 The first published reference to the IADR was very meager
indeed; it was merely mentioned in a footnote to an appreciation of Robert R. Andres by George A. Bates 8 in
1921.
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