Members of the pathology staff assemble for a group portrait, ca. 1938. From left to right: Charles Manlove (diener); Albert Gunter (assistant autopsy technician); Sam Witherspoon (janitor); Andrew Witherspoon (animal attendant); William Gunter, Jr.… Browse related items

The identity of this man is unknown, but he is possibly William Gunter, Jr., or his brother Albert. Both men were autopsy technicians employed by the Department of Pathology. Browse related items

Gunter was an autopsy technician in the Department of Pathology, as well as a skilled photographer praised by Goodpasture for his work for Pathology and other departments. His brother, Albert, was also employed by the Department of Pathology, and his… Browse related items

Gunter was an autopsy technician in the Department of Pathology, as well as a skilled photographer praised by Goodpasture for his work for Pathology and other departments. His brother, Albert, was also employed by the Department of Pathology, and his… Browse related items

Henry C. McGill Jr. graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1946 and was a resident the same year. Specializing in anatomical pathology, McGill is a senior scientist emeritus at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio,…

Photographic portrait of John Lawton Shapiro. John Shapiro, M.D., graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1938 and from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1941. He received a Combat Infantry Medical Badge in 1944 for service in Italy during World War II.…

Photographic portrait of James Robertson Dawson, Jr. James Robertson Dawson Jr. received his B.A. degree in 1928 and his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1931, both from Vanderbilt. He then became an instructor in the Department of Pathology at…

Roy C. Avery was born in 1885 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from Connecticut State College, B.S., Massachusetts State College, M.S., and received the Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1928. Dr. Avery taught at Vanderbilt Medical School from…

Dr. Ernest Goodpasture (1886-1960) was a Vanderbilt pathologist, best known for his method of growing uncontaminated viruses in chick embryos. During his early years at Vanderbilt, Dr. Goodpasture and his associates carried out studies that laid the…

Photographic portrait of Theodore R. Austin. Theodore Roe Austin grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi, the son of a general practitioner. He came to Vanderbilt University in 1925, received the BA in 1929, and his MD in 1932. From Vanderbilt he went to…