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The Charlotte Friend collection provides an excellent view of the scientist as well as the non-research side of a researcher's career. These files document Dr. Friend's role as a professional involved with numerous organizations as a leader, committee member, and reviewer; as an administrator of her own lab, with the concomitant need to write and receive grants from outside funding; and, at a lessening degree as time went on, as a teacher. Dr. Friend's research efforts are harder to trace here. The natural source for this would be the research notebooks, but these are now lost, with only a few remaining in the Center for Experimental Cell Biology. In this collection, the Manuscripts Series has the finished product of this research, although this series ends in 1979. There is also the Meetings, Speeches and Notebooks Series, which shows somewhat the progress of her work. Scattered throughout the Correspondence and Alphabetical series are also fleeting references to her work. There is also a small set of glass lantern slides from 1956-1963 (Box 44) that show experimental mouse specimens and cells. These were contained in a slide box with the initials C.P.R. on the top. It seems likely that the box once belonged to Cornelius P. Rhoads, who served as Director of Memorial Hospital from 1940-1953 and was the founding Director of Sloan Kettering Institute, where he served until his death in 1959. Another facet of the collection is the insight it provides into the world of cancer research during an important era, an era which Dr. Friend herself helped propel. This was the time, starting in the 1950s, when scientists gradually turned to an acceptance of viruses as cancer causing agents in humans. The evolution of the field may be traced through the conference programs (Box 33-38), the journal articles that Dr. Friend reviewed (Box 2, Box 7-19), as well as through the correspondence and her own research. These papers also show the intimacy of the cancer research community itself, at least at the level at which Dr. Friend operated. These papers provide information on women's role in science. Dr. Friend in some ways held an unusual position. Her discovery of the Friend leukemia virus established her reputation very early in her career. Perhaps because of this, she felt that she herself was not held back by being a woman, with the exception of some wage discrimination. Still, she believed that science truly had been a man's world and that it would take conscious and steady efforts by women to change this. For her part, this involved nominating women to positions of authority in organizations; suggesting women speakers for programs; speaking out about women's issues; serving as a role model to young women from grade school to graduate school; and ultimately, by taking time from her own lab to serve in prominent positions in professional associations. The latter is reflected in the Alphabetical Series in files on the Harvey Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. Finally, the Charlotte Friend Papers give a great deal of insight into her as a person. She cared deeply about and was very involved with her family (Personal Series). She loved to travel, but always loved New York. She wrote letters to congressmen and mayors on issues she cared about, including support for Israel, cuts in research funding, the status of women, and abortion rights (Box 42, f.7). Her support staff loved her, and many times she functioned as a mother hen to the group. Still, she seemed to be the mentor to few graduate students, and colleagues did not remain many years in her lab. She was a complex woman whose intricacies are clearly displayed in this collection.

The bulk of the Hans Popper Papers consists of two alphabetically organized subject files (approx. 10 feet each.) The first dates primarily from his tenure as Director of Pathology at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Dean for Academic Affairs at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. It consists primarily of records related to the administration of the Hospital and School of Medicine. The second dates from the years following his retirement in 1973 and consists primarily of research notes and an extensive correspondence file. The third major record series contains 4 linear feet of material relating to Dr. Popper’s attendance at conferences, seminars and other events, mostly but not exclusively post-1973. In addition, the collection includes smaller series containing records from Popper’s tenure at Cook County Hospital, his appointment books and pocket diaries, the records of his service on the Mount Sinai Medical Board, and oversized and audiovisual materials.

This is a recording of the investiture ceremony of Irving L. Schwartz, MD (1918-2011) as the first Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Distinguished Service Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Speakers at the event were: Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, Dean and President of Mount Sinai; Alfred Stern, President of the Mount Sinai Boards of Trustees; Anthony Lamport, son of Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport; and Irving Schwartz, MD. The invited speaker was Vincent P. Dole, MD.

Dr. Schwartz served as the Founding Dean of the Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences as well as the Chairman of the Department of Physiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is becoming a Distinguished Service Professor as he steps down from the Dean and Chairman roles and returns to the laboratory full-time. In the recording, he discusses his relationship with Harold Lamport and their views of what graduate education should be. Dr. Schwartz also touches on how medical and graduate medical science programs should coexist in one school.

Vincent P. Dole, MD, talks about the importance of having a creative mind and how the current funding mechanisms work against creativity in science.