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May 1954
Alumni Bulletin
Summer 1979
Yale Medicine
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May 1954
Alumni Bulletin
The Yale-New Haven Medical Center
“The Yale School of Medicine and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital
will expand their affiliated activities under a new program to be known
as the ‘Yale-New Haven Medical Center.’ Both the School and
Hospital will retain their independent corporate structures but will embark
on a joint development program for care of patients and for medical research
and teaching, thus providing southern New England with a major medical
center similar in concept to the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
in New York City.
“The joint announcement of the medical center plans was made in
February by President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale and President George
S. Stevenson of the Hospital. They explained that the immediate objective
of the Yale-New Haven Medical Center Plan would be the development of
a program of public relations, fund raising promotion, and program development.
‘Experience of other great medical centers,’ they said, ‘shows
that hospital and medical school functions and activities cannot be separated
when presenting programs to the public. Strengthening and support of one
of the partners materially assists the other.’
“Hiram Sibley has been appointed Director of Program Development
for the new medical center. Mr. Sibley is an authority on hospital finance
and has served as Executive Director of the Connecticut Hospital Association
since 1948.”
Summer 1979
Yale Medicine
Peter Parker: Physician—Missionary—Diplomat
“It has been said that Peter Parker opened China at the point of
a lancet. When he arrived in that far country in November of 1834 at the
age of thirty, after a voyage of 140 days, it was at a time in history
when the Chinese were giving scant welcome to Western ‘barbarians.’
Their culture was viewed with contempt, their commercial ambitions with
suspicion. But in Peter Parker’s lancet they discovered healing
and relief from many conditions hitherto considered hopeless, and as thousands
passed through the hospital he founded in Canton in 1835, it might be
said that Parker did in truth open China in a way never achieved by the
blasting guns of British men-of-war.
“Parker has been the subject of two biographies (G.B. Stevens and
W.F. Markwick, 1896, and E.V. Gulick, 1973) and a number of shorter studies—most
recently by C.G. Roland and J.D. Key (1978) and Peter Pitt (1971) and
earlier, several by members of the Yale faculty: Samuel C. Harvey, Charles
J. Bartlett, Eugene M. Blake, Harvey Cushing, the Rev. Kenneth S. Latourette,
Levin W. Waters, and others interested in him as ‘initiator of modern
medicine in China,’ ‘the founder of modern medical missions,’
‘Yale’s first ophthalmologist,’ and Commissioner to
the Chinese Empire, for in addition to distinguished service as physician
and missionary, he represented the United States officially in his later
years in fostering friendship and understanding between the two nations.
This article will focus on Parker the diplomat.”
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