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Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library1300 Jefferson Park Avenue
P.O. Box 800722
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0722
mailto:hsl-historical@virginia.edu
URL: https://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/
Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply to some materials.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Custodial History
The records were transferred by Jim Denton to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on April 2004. Three of the notebooks were labeled Robert E. Perry who was the Society president in 1992.
Biographical / Historical
The organizational meeting of the Virginia Surgical Society was held May 23, 1953, in Richmond. Officers were elected, a constitution adopted, and plans made for an annual business and scientific meeting. According to the constitution, originally membership in the Society was "limited to men in good Standing in the Medical Society of Virginia." The 1969 amended constitution states, "Active membership in the Society shall be limited to surgeons in good standing in the Medical Society of Virginia." The May 1992 VSS Annual Meeting program indicates that the Society is a "Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons." As of 2019, the Virginia Surgical Society is considered a related but separate organization from the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The purposes of the Virginia Surgical Society "The purposes of the Virginia Surgical Society are to promote excellence in surgery in Virginia through the superb programs at the annual meeting and to promote a cordial association among the surgeons and their families."
See the website of the Virginia Capter of the American College of Surgeons website additional information: https://virginiaacs.org/
Scope and Contents
The collection includes organizational record books, membership lists, correspondence, by-laws and constitutions, meeting minutes, annual meeting reports and publications, and photographs.
Arrangement
The material arrived in notebooks and folders with overlapping dates. The order within the notebooks and folders has been preserved and arranged into organizational papers by date; member registers; publications; photos; and annual meeting programs.
Container List
This series consists of materials related to society membership, meeting minutes, writings and drafts, correspondence, and reports.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1 Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 2
Membership, minutes, correspondence, treasurer's report, constitution, attendance1952-1972
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3 Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4 Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5
Membership, minutes, correspondence, treasurer's report, constitution, attendance1952-1999
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 6
Constitutions and traditions1955-1991
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 7
Awards, correspondence1968-2001
- Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 8 Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 1 Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 2
Membership, minutes, correspondence, applications, abstracts (notebook labeled Robert E. Berry)1972-1989
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 3
Correspondence1982-1988, 1993-1994
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 4 Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 5
Membership, minutes, correspondence, treasurer's report1987-1991
- Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 6 Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 7 Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 1
Membership, minutes, correspondence, treasurer's report, applications (notebook labeled Robert E. Berry)1989-1992
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 2
Minutes, correspondence, treasurer's report, applications, report to Congress (notebook labeled Robert E. Berry)1993-1998
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 3 Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 4
Membership, minutes, correspondence, constitution, awards1993-1998
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 5
Correspondence, draft of "Non-Invasive Vascular Testing - Medicare Guidelines"1994-1998
- Ledgers box: 4 folder: 1
Member register1954-1990, 1998
- Ledgers box: 4 folder: 2
Guest and member register1955-1999
- Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 3
"They Made Surgical History in Virginia" by W. Levi Old, "Virginia Medical"1981-04
- Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 4
"Surgery and Surgeons in Virginia 1607-1995: An Historical Monograph Compiled by W. Levi Old Jr. and Claiborne W. Fitchett1997
This series contains photographs related to events and individuals of the Virginia Surgical Society.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 5
Slides for use in 50th anniversary celebration1953, n.d.
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 6
Colonial Williamsburg and The Homestead photos used for front cover of annual meeting programs1980-1999
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 7
Richard Henry Dean1989
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 8
James E. Davis1989
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 9
Lazar John Greenfield1991
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 10
Robert W. Barnes1992
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 11
J. Patrick O'Leary1992
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 12
Kirby I. Bland1992
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 13
P. William Curreri1992
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 14
Paul A. Ebert1993
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 15
Wallace P. Ritchie Jr.1994
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 16
William C. Meyers1998
- Photographs box: 4 folder: 17
50th anniversary celebration2003-04