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Time for historical trivia about Upstate — five answers
Here are the answers to the questions I posed this morning having to do with interesting tidbits in the history of Upstate. I’ll post five more trivia questions tomorrow. 1. This weekend, Upstate will...
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More historical trivia about Upstate — five new questions
This welcomes everyone to Weiskotten Hall. Here’s part two of the pop quiz I’ve assembled regarding Upstate’s history, based on the research I’ve been conducting for a forthcoming Upstate Health...
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More historical trivia about Upstate – five new answers
1. In what year did the college adopt the metric system? Answer: 1879. (And judging from the use of three exclamation points in the narrative history, this was an especially exciting development!!!)...
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More historical trivia about Upstate — five final questions
The old physiology-pharmacology lab. This little trip down memory lane wraps up today with five final trivia questions having to do with the history of Upstate. I’ll post answers this afternoon. Thanks...
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More historical trivia about Upstate — five final answers
Here are the answers from today’s pop quiz on the history of Upstate: 1. This excerpt is from what year? “It was evident that if the College was to survive, even greater financial support was...
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Looking Ahead with Dr. Smith: Upstate’s historical foundation attracts...
(This is a continuing series of conversations with David Smith, MD, the president of Upstate Medical University. Read the first conversation here.) One of our goals is to serve our region, both by...
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Happy 60th anniversary to Syracuse VA Medical Center
The Syracuse VA Medical Center under construction in the early 1950s. The Syracuse VA Medical Center opened its doors 60 years ago today, on June 14, 1953. Today it’s a 106-bed general medical and...
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Summer issue of Upstate Health available now
If ever you have wondered, “what is Upstate?” a collection of nostalgia starting on page 11 of the summer issue of Upstate Health magazine will go a long way toward answering that question. The...
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The essence of ‘Upstate’ curated in 14 objects
The modern day Upstate Medical University campus pays homage to history with an eloquent, bronzed lobby dedication “to all those of scientific mind and investigative spirit who purpose to serve...
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Onondaga Historical Association focuses on pioneering women doctors
Drs. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), Mary Walker (1832-1919) and Sarah Loguen Fraser (1850-1933) – all medical pioneers with ties to Upstate and Syracuse – will be the topic of discussion at the...
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Medical school’s famous graduate is subject of NPR ‘great read’ children’s book
A children’s book starring Elizabeth Blackwell, MD – an 1849 graduate of Geneva Medical College and America’s first woman doctor — has been selected as a “2013 Great Read,” National Public Radio’s...
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Both Upstate University hospitals celebrate 50th anniversaries this year
Displayed near the front of Upstate University Hospital at Community is this anniversary banner. Community Hospital’s grand opening was June 30, 1963. University Hospital’s was May 24, 1965. So why...
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Found in the Files: documents on the building of Upstate’s downtown hospital
Mary Lent holds a 50-year-old news clipping showing construction of the hospital at Upstate’s downtown Syracuse campus. Recently, Mary Lent, a 14-year employee of Upstate’s physical plant department,...
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Hospital construction this week, 50+ years ago
Community Hospital’s snowy construction site, 1961. Published by the Post-Standard. Collection of the Onondaga Historical Association. This week — 50+ years ago — both of our hospital construction...
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A bird’s eye view of the site for the ‘State University Hospital’
Dec. 1958: The site for Upstate University Hospital. Courtesy Upstate’s Health Sciences Library and Onondaga Historical Association This aerial photograph—taken on a snowless day in December 1958—was...
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Retired administrator and volunteer share memories of Upstate’s hospitals
Charles and Rose Calligaris spent many rewarding decades working at Upstate’s community and downtown hospitals. For forty years, Charles, 87, and Rose, 86, Calligaris drove together to work at either...
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Syracuse Free Dispensary, Then and Now
The Syracuse Free Dispensary building, prior to 1964 (left) and in 2014 (right). In the days before Medicare and Medicaid, sick and injured Syracusans who had no money for doctors’ bills could be seen...
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Got a quarter? Looking for gems for the 2014 time capsule
Upstate President Carlyle Jacobsen, PhD (1902-1974) and an unidentified man place a time capsule in the cornerstone of Upstate’s downtown campus hospital, 1963. Upstate is collecting items and...
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Love Potion ’65: A gall bladder, a black out and a blizzard
Paul Berman MD and Yvonne Axtell met at the newly opened Upstate University Hospital. Their wedding day, 1966. The hospital’s 50th anniversary — and this cold, snowy winter — inspired Paul Berman MD,...
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1958: Citizens envision community hospital
Going over tract of Onondaga County Sanatorium land as the probable site for the new Community Hospital, May 4, 1958. Published in the Syracuse Newspapers. From the Onondaga Historical Association. The...
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