As a visiting professor in 1986, Roderick K. “Rod” Calverley, M.D. (1938 to 1995, lower left) examined my modest departmental anesthesia museum at Yale. Somehow impressed, he and his fellow Wood Library-Museum (WLM) Trustee Nicholas M. “Nick” Greene, M.D. (1922 to 2004) suggested that I serve long- distance, starting in 1987, as an acting curator for Chicagoland’s WLM. A year later, Rod conceptualized Paul M. Wood Fellowships in the History of Anesthesia. Meanwhile, the only anesthesiologist to serve as editor-in-chief of America’s two most widely circulated anesthesia journals, Dr. Greene had begun quizzing me annually on my WLM exhibits (right, in 1991). By 1994, Dr. Greene was publicizing his vision of a WLM Laureate of the History of Anesthesia as a quadrennial honor to be awarded by an internationally constituted committee. Twenty-two years after Rod had conceived of Paul M. Wood Fellowships, I was awarded one (2010); and 22 years after Nick had publicized the Laureate competition, I was honored as one (2016). I will always be grateful to Drs. Calverley and Greene for recruiting me 33 years ago to work for the WLM. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.)
As a visiting professor in 1986, Roderick K. “Rod” Calverley, M.D. (1938 to 1995, lower left) examined my modest departmental anesthesia museum at Yale. Somehow impressed, he and his fellow Wood Library-Museum (WLM) Trustee Nicholas M. “Nick” Greene, M.D. (1922 to 2004) suggested that I serve long- distance, starting in 1987, as an acting curator for Chicagoland’s WLM. A year later, Rod conceptualized Paul M. Wood Fellowships in the History of Anesthesia. Meanwhile, the only anesthesiologist to serve as editor-in-chief of America’s two most widely circulated anesthesia journals, Dr. Greene had begun quizzing me annually on my WLM exhibits (right, in 1991). By 1994, Dr. Greene was publicizing his vision of a WLM Laureate of the History of Anesthesia as a quadrennial honor to be awarded by an internationally constituted committee. Twenty-two years after Rod had conceived of Paul M. Wood Fellowships, I was awarded one (2010); and 22 years after Nick had publicized the Laureate competition, I was honored as one (2016). I will always be grateful to Drs. Calverley and Greene for recruiting me 33 years ago to work for the WLM. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.)
George S. Bause, M.D., M.P.H., Honorary Curator and Laureate of the History of Anesthesia, Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Schaumburg, Illinois, and Clinical Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
