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        NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
                Friday, June 12, 1959
                    2:30 p.m.
                  at the
      NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
              Bethesda, Maryland
     (Wisconsin Avenue Opposite Entrance to Jones Bridge Road)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
              Public Health Service 
         Batlonal Xibrarg of Medicine


Founded in  1836  by Joseph  Lovell,  Surgeon-General of the
United  States Army, as the  library of the  surgeon-
general's office; developed  as a national  resource under the
leadership of John  Shaw Billings,  Librarian from  1865  to
1895;  in 1922 designated army  medical  library,  and  in
1952 renamed armed forces medical  library.
  In 1956, by terms of Public Law 941, 84th Congress, trans-
ferred to the Public  Health  Service, Department of Health,
Education,  and  Welfare,  as  the  national  library of
medicine.
  To be established on this site in 1961, the 125th anniversary
of its founding.
Architects: R. B. O'Connor and W. H. Kilham, Jr.
                                         New York City 
program
PRESIDING  .

INVOCATION
ADDRESS

REMARKS

                                       THE  HONORABLE MELVIN R. LAIRD
                                       United States Representative, Wisconsin
                                       THE HONORABLE GORDON  ALLOTT
                                             United States Senator, Colorado
GROUND BREAKING    ....    the honorable lister hill
                                             United States Senator, Alabama
BENEDICTION......commander r. e. handran
                                                Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy
                                            National Naval Medical Center
                   DR. CHAMP LYONS
             Chairman, Board of Regents

  THE REVEREND WILLIAMf R. ANDREW
               Chaplain, Clinical Center
            National Institutes of Health
  THE HONORABLE ARTHUR S. FLEMMING
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

   THE HONORABLE JOHN E.  FOGARTY
  United States Representative, Rhode Island
Music by the United States Army Band
                                    Captain Herbert Hoyer, Conduaing 
          jBoard of Hegents
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
 Bean, William B., M.D.
 Bibby, Basil G., D.M.D.
 Burney, Leroy E., M.D.
 Curran, Jean A., M.D.
 Davie, Mrs. Eugenie Mary
 DeBakey, Michael E., M.D.
 Francis, Thomas, Jr., M.D.
 Heaton, Major General L.  D.
 Hogan, Rear Admiral B.  W.  .
 Keys,  Thomas E.     ...
 Lyons, Champ, M.D.
 Middleton, William S., M.D.  .
 MUMFORD, L. QUINCY .
 Niess,  Major General O. K.
 Stadel, William W., M.D.
Volwiler, Ernest H., Ph. D
Wilson, John T., Ph. D
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      Rochester, New York
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     Boston, Massachusetts
          New York City
          Houston,  Texas
  .  Ann Arbor, Michigan
             U.S.  Army
           .  U.S.  Navy
      Rochester, Minnesota
   Birmingham, Alabama
   Veterans Administration
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    North Chicago, Illinois
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