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- 1973-02 (Created)
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This recording is of the investiture ceremony that inaugurated Fenton Schaffner, MD, as the first George Baehr Professor of Medicine. Dr. George Baehr had worked at Mount Sinai for sixty-five years and was important to the creation of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Attendees include: the families of Dr. Schaffner and Dr. Baehr, as well as Dr. Robert J. Kibbee, Chancellor of the City University. Speakers throughout the ceremony include: Dr. Hans Popper, President of the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Mr. Gustave Levy, Chairman of the Mount Sinai Hospital Board of Trustees; Dr. S. David Pomrinse, Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital; Dr. Baehr, and Dr. Schaffner.
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Aufses, Arthur H., Jr., and Niss, Barbara. This House of Noble Deeds : The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
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Description created by Lily Stowe-Alekman in Summer 2020.
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- Baehr, George (Subject)
- Kibbee, Robert J. (Subject)
- Popper, Hans (Hans Philipp) (Subject)
- Pomrinse, S. David (Subject)
- Schaffner, Fenton, 1920- (Subject)
- Levy, Gustave L. (Gustave Lehman) (Subject)