Abstract: Robert Scott attended Johns Hopkins University where he lettered on the 1950 National Championship Lacrosse Team and was chosen as an Honorable Mention AllAmerican midfielder in 1952 Scott went on to join the Army Scott was best known for his coaching career at Hopkins which began when he returned from the military He coached seven National Championship teams and was subsequently inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame for his coaching abilities In this interview Scott talks about Hopkins lacrosse and his undergraduate years This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 2000-04-03
Abstract: Samuel Hopkins was a Baltimore businessman and advocate for preservation of Maryland historic sites Hopkins was born and raised in Howard County and graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1934 He was the great grand nephew of Johns Hopkins Hopkins was active in politics and philanthropy in Maryland and served as president of the Maryland Historical Society from 1970 to 1976 In this oral history Hopkins describes his familys history and impact on the city of Baltimore describing Johns Hopkins career and relationships with contemporaries such as Enoch Pratt Moses Sheppard and George Peabody Hopkins also discusses life on campus during his time as a student during the Great Depression describing his relationships with prominent faculty members such as Dr Frederic Chapin Lane and Dr Broadus Mitchell as well as student organizations and activities This oral history is a part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 2006-05-10
Abstract: Edward Mac Magruder Passano was born in Baltimore Maryland He earned both an undergraduate 1967 and graduate 1969 degree from Johns Hopkins University He is the CEO of One Waverly LLC a philanthropic consulting firm and participates in a variety of other philanthropic endeavors These include his position as chairman of the Passano Foundation and his position as a board member at the Baltimore Economy and Efficiency foundation the Pride of Baltimore and the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland School of Medicine In 2001 Passano along with his wife and three daughters received the Philanthropist of the Year award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals In this interview Passano discusses his time at the Johns Hopkins School of Professional Studies in business and education as well as his philanthropic endeavors This oral history is a part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 1999-12-13
Abstract: Dr David Cohen is currently Emeritus Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan While completing his PhD in African history at the University of London he joined the Johns Hopkins History Department in 1968 Along with Jack Greene Cohen helped to establish the Atlantic Program in History and Culture which combined historical and anthropological approaches to the study of the Americas Europe and Africa Cohen describes borrowing from Philip Curtins tropical history program at the University of Wisconsin working with Greene Sidney Mintz and Richard Price the influence of Clifford Geertz and the Atlantic Program as an institutional and intellectual model for similar programs adopted at other universities This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series
Date Published: 2015-12-16
Abstract: Howard Dintzis and Renee Dintzis were both longtime faculty members in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry The husband and wife scientists first met in graduate school at Harvard Prior to coming to Hopkins their work brought them to Yale University Cambridge University the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology In this oral history Howard and Renee Dintzis discuss their lifes work as scientists and some of their notable colleagues and students including Francis Crick Renee Dintzis also discusses balancing motherhood with her scientific career and the experience of being a woman in a maledominated field This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series
Date Published: 2014-11-17
Abstract: Eric Noji earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1977 having majored in biochemistry philosophy and classics He went on to receive his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his MPH in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health After spending time working as a US Park Police Ranger and marine wildlife biologist he became an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a Medical Epidemiologist at the CDC among other positions Dr Noji is a prominent physician in the humanitarian community and has been awarded such honors as his election to the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies of Science as well as his induction into the Ordre des Palmes Académiques at the rank of Chevalier In this history Dr Noji discusses his education and medical career as well as his time at Johns Hopkins This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 1999-07-27
Abstract: Donald S Coffey was born on October 10 1932 in Bristol Virginia He attended King College there before transferring to the University of East Tennessee In 1957 Coffey moved to Baltimore to work for Westinghouse after which he took night classes at the Hopkins night school McCoy College and eventually began to work for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Brady Research Laboratory This led Coffey to apply to the Department of Physiological Chemistry in the medical school for his graduate education Coffey subsequently received his PhD in 1964 became a professor of urology in the School of Medicine and served as editor for many scholarly journals In this oral history Coffey discusses his early life how he came to work at Hopkins and his colleagues and work in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 2000-05-02
Abstract: Neil Grauer born in 1947 is a journalist and editorial cartoonist who grew up in Great Neck New York Grauer received his BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1969 and a masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 1970 Grauer was a reporter and cartoonist for the Baltimore News American from 1970 until 1980 after which he served as the public affairs officer in the Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Attorney Generals Office In 1984 he published Wits and Sages which profiles twelve contemporary newspaper columnists In 1988 his Drugs and the Law appeared as part of the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs In this oral history Grauer discusses his student days at Hopkins in the 1960s including the political unrest of the time his activities with the student body and his work cartooning for the NewsLetter This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series Due to a technical error with one of the audio cassettes Grauers oral history is only partially transcribed with approximately onefifth of the content missing from the transcript The audio file contains the full recording
Date Published: 1999-07-08
Abstract: Marjorie Lewisohn was born in 1918 in Manhattan She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1940 and went on to complete her degree in medicine at Johns Hopkins University in 1943 In her early career she spent time treating tuberculosis at Bellevue Hospital By the 1950s Dr Lewisohn had gone into private practice while still maintaining staff physician positions at both Lenox Hill Hospital and Doctors Hospital as well as a clinical professorship at the New York Hospital Cornell University Medical Center She rekindled her connection with Johns Hopkins in 1972 when she began her 18year tenure as a trustee of Johns Hopkins University She was the first female trustee of the university In this history Lewisohn recounts her experiences as a woman at the Hopkins Medical School in the early 1940s This oral history is a part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 1999-11-04
Abstract: Research Professor Paul Feldman has been affiliated with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University since 1967 He is principal investigator of a NASAsupported sounding rocket program and has been responsible for over three dozen sounding rocket launches Feldman received his PhD in physics from Columbia University in 1964 In this oral history he discusses how his interest in astronomy developed and some of the highlights of his professional career This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series
Date Published: 2015-03-27
Abstract: Susan Terranova 76 BA 77 MA SAIS was a member of one of the first undergraduate classes to admit women and was the first woman to join the Johns Hopkins ROTC program After graduating from the School of Advanced International Studies in 1977 Terranova embarked on a career as an Army officer teaching at West Point and serving in Korea Germany the United States and Colombia After retiring from the Army she began a second career as a foreign languages teacher In this interview Terranova recounts her early family life ROTC at Hopkins during her time and her career in the Army and as a teacher This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series
Date Published: 2017-05-10
Abstract: Doctor Ernest Bates originally from Peekskill New York graduated from Johns Hopkins and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and founded American Shared Hospital Services a company that leases medical equipment to hospitals across the United States He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University the Board of Visitors of the Johns Hopkins Medical Center and on the Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Advisory Board In this oral history Bates discusses his experiences at Hopkins as the first AfricanAmerican student in the School of Arts and Sciences in 1954 the difficulties of segregation off campus and his subsequent activities as a trustee with Hopkins This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 1999-10-11
Abstract: SB is a member of the Johns Hopkins University graduating class of 2018 and majored in biomedical engineering SB was born in Ecuador and raised in Delaware In this interview SB discusses their educational journey prior to college including their time as a student at the Delaware Military Academy SB goes on to describe their experience as a firstgeneration student at Johns Hopkins discussing various academic programs internships and life on campus This oral history is part of the Firstgeneration Students oral histories series
Date Published: 2018-02-26
Abstract: Anne Nan Pinkard was a trustee of Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore philanthropist Pinkard was the first woman to be elected as a full member of the Johns Hopkins Hospitals board and served as president of the Johns Hopkins Womens Board at the same time Pinkards father Robert G Merrick Sr received undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Hopkins and was also a university trustee from 1953 to 1968 In this interview Pinkard discussed her familys relationship with the Garretts one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in Maryland She later goes on to talk about her role on the Womens Board at Johns Hopkins This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 2001-04-17
Abstract: Margaret Sparrow was born in Baltimore Maryland She earned her undergraduate degree from Goucher College in 1950 and her graduate degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University Sparrow served as the executive director of the Baltimore Council of Fire Girls from 1955 until 1965 After moving to White Plains New York Sparrow took a position as the executive director pf the Southwest Connecticut Girl Scout Council for 5 years She spent the remainder of her career as an executive director of the Constituent Leagues for the National League for Nursing in New York Sparrow was also active in Republican politics and ran for a spot on the Baltimore City Council in 1950 In this history Sparrow talks about her life growing up in Baltimore and Girl Scouts This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series
Date Published: 1999-10-08
