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This collection consists of numerous subject files that document the activities of the Jacobi and Levy Libraries prior to the 1983 appointment of Lynn Kasner Morgan as Library Director. (Levy Library records from 1983 onwards are located in the Records of the Library Director’s Office. Some series, particularly material related to Library seminars, overlap both collections. In these cases they have been filed with the post-1983 records.)

The pre-1974 Jacobi Library and Basic Sciences branch library are documented by various files of internal records and ephemera, including usage statistics, newsletters, bookplates, and lists of recent acquisitions. Of particular note is a 1946 inventory of the Library’s collections. The creation of the modern Levy Library is represented by several files that document the planning of the Annenberg Building facility and the hiring of Alfred Brandon as consultant and eventual director. The collection also includes material on Gustave Levy’s charitable contributions to the new library and the 1974 dedication ceremony in which the Annenberg Building facility was named in his and his wife’s honor.

Several files document exhibits that were displayed in the Levy Library’s exhibition space. These include a 1976 file on the acquisition and display of memorabilia from the Lascoff family pharmacy and a file on the Philip Reichert, MD Collection of vintage diagnostic medical instruments, both of which are no longer at the Levy Library.

Memos regarding the reconstitution of the Ambulatory Care Committee of the Board of Trustees, including suggested committee members. Includes a report to the Board of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Hospital by Samuel Davis addressing hospital organization and management.

Correspondence between Mount Sinai and the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center regarding a possible affiliation between the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

These files represent an almost complete official record of the Clinical Excellence Committee, the Task Forces, and their subcommittees. The minutes are complete, with only one exception. There are few interim reports or correspondence among the coordinators, the chairmen of the committees, and members. The final report is contained in Box 2, folder 1.

Some of the minutes have notes made by Dr. Thomas Chalmers, President and Dean of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and School of Medicine. The files probably came from that office, although, aside from these few notes, they are generic.

The ceremony celebrates the dedication of the Dr. Lucy G. Moses Cardiothoracic Center on the 8th floor of the new Annenberg Building. The event was led by Mr. Gustave L. Levy, Chairman of the Boards of Trustees at Mount Sinai. The Speakers were: Mr. Levy; Frederick P. Rose, Mount Sinai Trustee, and then President of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center, and President and Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine; S. David Pomrinse, MD, Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital; Dr. Lucy Moses; and Robert S. Litwak, MD, Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. The invited speaker was Norman Shumway, MD, then Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Stanford University. He provides a brief history of cardiac surgery.

Speakers are: Gustave Levy, Master of Ceremonies, Frederick Rose, Alfred Stern, Drs. Thomas Chalmers, S. David Pomrinse, Lucy G. Moses, Robert S. Litwak. Keynote address given by Dr. Norman Shumway on the history of cardiac surgery.

This is a recording of the investiture of Ms. Doris Siegel as the first Edith J. Baerwald Professor of Community Medicine (Social Work) on October 24, 1969. Edith J. Baerwald became a member of the Social Services Auxiliary (Women’s Auxiliary Board) in 1916, and served on it for more than thirty years.

Dr. Herman D. Stein, the Provost of Case Western Reserve University, delivered the main address. In his address, he discussed professional education curriculum and changes occurring as professions reevaluate their ethical and moral responsibilities. He charted changes that social work had implemented in medical education and practice.

Additional speakers at the ceremony include: Dean George James, Gustave Levy, Chair of the Board of Trustees; Mr. Alfred Stern, Chaiman of the School of Medicine Fund; Dr. David S. Pomrinse, Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital; Mrs. Jane Aron, Dr. Julius C. C. Edelstein, Dr. Kurt Deushle, Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine and Lavenberg Professor of Community Medicine; and Doris Siegel.

This collection contains files created by senior Mount Sinai leaders who participated in the creation of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, including various early papers. Of particular note is a booklet by Mount Sinai Trustee Leonard Block called "Let us NOT sponsor a Medical School" [in 1961 Correspondence file]. Also included here are some of the foundational studies for the school, founding documents and policy statements. There are also files about how to create publicity for the new school. One effort was a film with Milton Eisenhower, President of Johns Hopkins University and brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower, as the narrator. The film describes why Mount Sinai would be a good place for a medical school. Copies of the film, "The Mount Sinai Story," are included in the Archives Visual Material Collection (VM 059). Also, an oversize site and programming report is stored on Q 7.

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.