The Johns Hopkins Gazette: September 30, 2002

September 30, 2002
VOL. 32, NO. 5

NEWS
IT revs up student services
Recreational use of Ecstasy causes new brain damage
Cingular selected to provide Hopkins cell-phone service
JHM study: Genomewide scanning unravels complex birth defect
Odd magnets may give insight into proteins, particles
Dell Computer donates United Way grand prize
Historian Owsei Temkin to be honored
Day of Caring
William Kristol, E.J. Dionne lead off Odyssey Media Forum
 
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Thomas B. Turner, 1902-2002
Thomas Bourne Turner, a centenarian whose tenure as dean of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for more than a decade led to its unprecedented expansion, died on Sept. 22 at the townhouse he had occupied for almost 60 years in Baltimore's Bolton Hill. He celebrated his 100th birthday on Jan. 28.
   A familiar, energetic and accessible, if legendary, figure on the medical campus well into his 90s, Turner first came to Hopkins 75 years ago, in 1927, and spent nearly all his three-quarters of a century in medicine at the institution he loved, with the exception of only two brief periods. Entrenching himself in the school's history, as well as medicine, he served as fellow, professor, dean and archivist in a career that spanned the modern history of clinical and academic medicine. Full story...

Cranbrook curator to take helm of university's historic houses
Robert Saarnio, a curator, architectural historian and specialist in historic preservation, has been appointed the university's director of historic houses.
   Saarnio will be responsible for Evergreen and Homewood House, both university-owned properties that are open to the public as museums and centers for the promotion of art and history in Baltimore.
   Homewood House, a National Historic Landmark celebrating its 200th anniversary this year, is the centerpiece of the Homewood campus and one of the nation's finest surviving examples of Federal architecture. Evergreen, a 48-room house on the National Register of Historic Places, was the home of Baltimore's Garrett family from 1878 to 1942. Full story...


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