Chapter Five: Dean's yearly reports to Chancellor, BOT and related correspondence:, 1945 - 2002

Collins notes on med school budgets; opies of Treasurer's Reports, Heard Archives, 1945-1950; Dean's reports, 1940-41 to 1949; Letters that follow were selected to dramatize seriousness of financial crisis in late 1940s:Lamson to EWG March, 1946 about zero-growth in Pharmacology budget; EWG to Charles Nelson March, 1946 about "Desperation Fund" ; Morgan to Nelson March 1946 about Desperation Fund; EWG to vice-Chancellor Sarratt about Med School and Hospital budget and problems with red ink; arratt to EWG approving 1946-47 budgets, with questions about deficits; EWG to Sarratt Nov, 1946 about "extremely critical" financial situation; Branscomb to EWG Jan, 1948 "I am sure they (BOT) will want togive a good deal of time to the problems of the School of Medicine."; Brownlee Currey to EWG March 1948 about "Emergency Hospital Fund."; Lamson to Henderson April 1948 in Buildings and Grounds about Apparatus Shop finances, for which Pharmacology was responsible; Pilcher to EWG May 1948 about contributions by various surgeons to air-condition operating rooms #3&4; exasperated letter from Lamson to EWG March 1949 "we are bound for Hell and it makes little difference to me how we get there."; Branscomb to EWG Dec 1949 about problems in funding request for $22,000 for X-ray equipment; letter EWG to Branscomb Jan 1950 about increasing library budget by `$1,000 for assistant; Branscomb's response two days later:"I think I have gone about as far as I feel willing in the expansion of budgets in the School of Medicine, etc." Excerpt from Branscomb's Autobiography pages 176-183 about Med School problems.