Name	Linna Hamilton Denny Scrapbook
Dates	1890-1957
Extent	1 cubic foot
Historical Note	Linna Hamilton Denny was born March 30, 1864 in Peoria, Illinois, to Alexander Jordan and Irene Warssia Payne Denny. Denny attended and graduated from Danville High School, Danville, Illinois, before moving with her family to Citronelle, Alabama and later to Birmingham, Alabama. Denny entered the Illinois Training School for Nurses in Chicago and graduated in 1893. Denny furthered her education by attending the Teacher’s College at Columbia University, New York. Denny earned her Red Cross Nurse’s badge, number 46, while volunteering in the 1900 flood relief effort in Galveston, Texas. During World War I, she served the Red Cross as Chief Nurse of Red Cross Sanitary Unit # 8 in Camp McClellan in Anniston, Alabama. In 1920, Denny worked in Poland caring for wounded and dying soldiers. Upon her return to Alabama, Denny became instrumental in the organization of the Alabama State Nurses Association, as well as serving as the executive secretary of the State Board of Nurses’ Examiners and Registration. The University of Alabama honored Linna Denny with an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities in 1952. Linna Denny died in Birmingham on May 22, 1955 and was buried in a family plot in Danville, Illinois.
Scope and Contents	This collection consists of a 31 x 38 cm scrapbook (white bindings) that contains 106 pages of typed biographical information, photographs, notes, and news clippings.
Arrangement	None
Accession Number	M2003-05
Provenance	The creator of the scrapbook was the Nursing Service, Jefferson County Chapter of the National Red Cross. The scrapbook was assembled circa 1958 and presented to the University of Alabama School of Nursing by Esther Howell Gross, a volunteer historian for the Jefferson County Red Cross Chapter. The scrapbook was donated to the UAB Archives in 2003 by the University of Alabama School of Nursing, UAB, and its dean Rachel Z. Booth, PhD.
Fnding Aid	Printed descriptive guide by Jennifer L. Beck available in repository.
Access Points	American Red Cross Denny Family Denny, Linna Hamilton d 1864-1955 Nursing z Alabama University of Alabama b School of Nursing
Document Types	Clippings. Photographs. Scrapbooks.
Location	Manuscript Stacks
Related Series	MC49, Florence A. Hixson Papers, 1939-1989 MC51, Emmett B. Carmichael/Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences Collection, 1829-1980
Physical Condition	No processing has been completed or preservation undertaken on the scrapbook

Historical Note

 

Linna Hamilton Denny was born March 30, 1864 in Peoria, Illinois .  She was the daughter of Alexander Jordan Denny and Irene Warssia (Payne) Denny.  Miss Denny attended and graduated from Danville High School, Danville, Illinois .  Alexander Denny moved his family to Citronelle, Alabama in 1880 and to Birmingham, Alabama in 1886.  Linna Denny held her first position as a schoolteacher in a one-room rural school in Citronelle.  Denny graduated from the Illinois Training School for Nurses in Chicago in 1893.  Denny furthered her education by attending the Teacher’s College at Columbia University, New York .  Following her education, Denny held several positions throughout the U.S. She spent one summer in charge of the Section Memorial Baby Tent in Chicago, Illinois, before becoming the superintendent of nurses at the Mitchell and Maury Sanatorium in Memphis, Tennessee .  In 1907, she held a resident nurse position at Athens College in Athens, Alabama .  In Birmingham , she served as supervisor of nurses at Talley Infirmary, taught home hygiene and care of the sick classes, and was a public school nurse from 1908-1917.

 

Denny became interested in the Red Cross while caring for malaria patients in Marietta, Georgia .  She completed the paper work and examinations to become the 46^th Red Cross nurse in the United States and the first from Alabama .  She was instrumental in the organization of a local Red Cross Nursing Service committee in Birmingham .  In 1900, the Red Cross called for volunteers to serve in the Galveston, Texas flood relief effort.  Denny was among a group of Birmingham nurses who answered the call.  It was in Galveston that Denny earned the right to wear her Red Cross Nurse’s badge.  For her outstanding service in Galveston , Denny received a citation and recognition from the Galveston Chamber of Commerce.  Upon her return home, Denny’s fellow Alabamians recognized her as the state’s first Red Cross nurse.

 

During World War I, Denny served the Red Cross as Chief Nurse of Red Cross Sanitary Unit # 8 in Camp McClellan in Anniston, Alabama .  She had requested overseas duty during the war, but was turned down because her service at the camp was essential and Red Cross nurses were scarce.  Her service in Anniston included battling the influenza epidemic, keeping a five-mile restricted zone around the camp free from disease, delivering milk and soup to families in their homes, and vaccinating school children.  In 1920, Denny’s request for overseas duty was granted and she was sent to Poland .  She arrived in Warsaw in March 1920 and served as supervisor of the Prague hospital.  The nurses in Poland provided first aid and care to the wounded and dying Polish soldiers who were still fighting the Russians.  During her service in Poland, Denny represented the American Nursing Association of Alabama as a delegate to the International Council of Nurses in Helsinski, Finland .

 

Upon her return to Birmingham , Denny continued to serve the public health field.  She was instrumental in the organization of the Alabama State Nurses Association; she served as the association’s first president and the first executive secretary in 1927.  Denny campaigned for the first Nurse Practice Act in Alabama , which led to state registration for graduate nurses.  From 1925 to 1942, Denny was the executive secretary of the State Board of Nurses’ Examiners and Registration.  She also organized summer class for nurses at the University of Alabama and at Tuskegee Institute.    In 1952, the University of Alabama honored Linna Denny with an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities.  In the ceremonies held in the Jefferson-Hillman Hospital Auditorium, Dr. John Gallalee, President of the University of Alabama, conferred the Doctor of Humanities upon Denny making her the first nurse in Alabama to receive an honorary degree.  Also in 1952, a portrait of Denny was unveiled in ceremonies at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Birmingham .  The portrait, which depicts Denny at the time of her honorary degree, was later presented to the University of Alabama School of Nursing and currently hangs in the nursing school building at UAB.

 

On May 22, 1955, Linna Denny died in Birmingham , a week after the Red Cross presented her a medal for over 50 years of service.  Funeral services were held at the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Birmingham .  Denny was buried in a family plot in Danville, Illinois .

This page created 2003 and last updated on 18 May 2005.

Copyright:  The University of Alabama Board of Trustees.

Name	Edwin Glenn Waldrop Papers
Dates	1946-1985
Extent	.50 cubic foot
Historical Note	Edwin Glenn Waldrop was born on December 18, 1922, in Hueytown, Alabama. He entered the University of Alabama in 1941 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in August 1943.  He enrolled in the School of Medicine in Tuscaloosa in 1943 as part of an accelerated medical training program.  When the school was relocated to Birmingham, Alabama, he and twenty other students transferred to the new four year Medical College of Alabama.  On October 25, 1946, Waldrop and his classmates received their M.D. degrees.  He served in the U.S. Air Force, held several staff positions at the Medical College of Alabama, operated a private practice and was a member of several boards and organizations.  He died in Birmingham on April 25, 1998.
Scope and Contents	The collection consists of five folders and one scrapbook.  The collection contains information about the Alumni Association of the School of Medicine.
Arrangement	Folders are arranged alphabetically
Accession Number	M1998-19
Provenance	Donated to the UAB Archives in December 1998 by the widow of Dr. Waldrop.
Fnding Aid	Printed descriptive guide by Jennifer L. Beck available in repository.
Access Points	Waldrop, Edwin G.,  d  1922-1998. University of Alabama  b  Medical College of Alabama.
Document Types	Clippings. Constitution. Correspondence. Periodicals. Programs. Scrapbook.
Location	Manuscript Stacks
Related Series	PMC75, Edwin Glenn Waldrop Photographs
Physical Condition	Acid free folders and acid free boxes

This page created 1999 and last updated on 27 November 2007.

Copyright:  The University of Alabama Board of Trustees.

Name	Samuel B. Barker Papers
Dates	1923 - 2002
Extent	19.50 cubic feet
Historical Note	Samuel Booth Barker was born on March 3, 1912, in Montclair, New Jersey. After graduating with a B.S. degree from the University of Vermont in 1932, he attended Cornell University where he received his Ph.D. in physiology in 1936. Barker remained at the Cornell University Medical Center until 1941, then moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he became a full-time instructor in physiology at the University of Tennessee medical school.  In 1944, Dr. Barker accepted his first faculty position in the physiology department at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. In 1952, he accepted a position as a professor of pharmacology at the Medical College of Alabama. He remained in Birmingham until 1962 when he accepted a position in the pharmacology department at the University of Vermont. Dr. Barker returned to Birmingham in 1965 as director of Graduate Studies at UAB, and in 1970 he was appointed first dean of the UAB Graduate School.  He remained as dean until 1978 when he retired and was designated as Dean Emeritus. Barker also served as associate dean of the medical school and as associate dean of the dental school.  In 1976 he was selected as the Medical Center's fifth Distinguished Faculty Lecturer and that same year was named a Distinguished Professor at UAB.  In 1979 he received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from UAB and in 1991 he received the UAB President's Medal.  Samuel Booth Barker maintained close relations with UAB until his death in Birmingham on September 3, 2002. Dr. Barker and his wife, Justine Rogers, developed a strong interest in the arts including the areas of dance, painting, sculpture, and the theater.  Sam and Justine were active participants in the UAB Town and Gown Theatre during their early years in Birmingham, with Sam appearing in several productions, including "Family Portrait" (1956) and "Victoria Regina" (1956), and with Justine as a member of the prop crew for these same productions.  Both Sam and Justine were, in fact, members of the crew for the 1955 production of "Candles in the Canebrake," the first Town and Gown production held in the Clark Memorial Theatre.  The Barkers were also patrons of various artists and sculptors, and in the early 1970s they commissioned the first piece of outdoor sculpture displayed at UAB.  By 1997 more than 25 works of art were located on the university campus as a result of the Barkers.  Dr. Barker was a member of the Board of Directors of several local arts organizations, including the Birmingham Creative Dance Company, the Birmingham Festival of the Arts, and the Birmingham Symphony Association.  He was also president of the Birmingham Festival Theatre from 1980 until 1981 and was a charter member of the Greater Birmingham Arts Alliance, for which he served as president from 1971 until 1974.  Dr. Barker was also the chair of the Fine Arts Committee at Birmingham-Southern College.
Scope and Contents	Materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, notes, programs, plaques, ephemera, memorabilia, news clippings
Arrangement	Organized into two series representing the two transfers of material, and then each series is divided into subseries by subject.
Accession Number	M1998-20 and M2003-09
Provenance	The material constituting this collection arrived in the UAB Archives in two discrete accessions.  The first set of records, approximately 2 cubic feet, were in the possession of Dr. Barker until July 31, 1998, when he transferred them to the UAB Archives.  In 2003 the executor of the Barker estate transferred another 17 cubic feet of material from the Barker home.  The two accessions were combined to form one comprehensive manuscript collection.
Fnding Aid	Printed descriptive guide by Donnelly F. Lancaster, Jennifer L. Beck, and Tim L. Pennycuff available in repository
Access Points	Arts z Alabama z Birmingham. Barker, Samuel Booth, d 1912-2002. Carmichael, Emmett, d 1895-1985. University of Alabama at Birmingham. University of Vermont. Von Trapp, Maria, d 1905-1987.
Document Types	Correspondence Minutes Newsletters Notes Programs
Location	Manuscript Stacks
Related Series	9.2, Administrative Files of Distinguished Professor Samuel B. Barker 37.1, Graduate School Dean’s Administrative Files PMC70, Samuel B. Barker Photograph Collection
Physical Condition	Acid free folders and acid free boxes

This page created 1999 and last updated on 27 November 2018.

Copyright:  The University of Alabama Board of Trustees.