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This series of 10 notebooks is the first draft of Psychical Goods, an unpublished book. The last drafts are in Series 14, boxes 72, and many have references throughout to this series of notebooks. This first draft includes Loebs observations on himself and people he knew as examples. People mentioned are doctors and staff of the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital and faculty, physicians and staff of Washington University Medical School and affiliated hospitals. Loeb mentions other people from St. Louis as well. The final draft has no names and no references to this series of notebooks, 1912-1918.

Notes on publications, drafts of publications, letters, and other material compiled and gathered in preparation for Autobiographical notes, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2 (1958):123, plus one file on Georgiana Sands Loeb.

These lecture notes are presumably for a course on pathology for second year medical students at Washington University. This course, Pathology, had three parts. Professor Loeb taught the Lectures and Laboratory Work and the Recitation. The third part on Autopsies was taught by other Pathology department faculty. Fortieth annual catalogue of the school of Medicine, March 20, 1929, page 100-101

This series has three sets of bound reprints. Copy 1 and copy 2 have the bookplate of Washington University Medical School library. Copies 2 and 3 are missing many volumes. There is also an index and unbound reprints.

One scrapbook titled "The Obstetrical Anthology" kept by St. Louis Maternity Hospital residents, and two group portraits. The scrapbook includes photographs and lists of physicians, residents, and interns as well as illustrations, poems, skits, jokes, and other writings.

Many of the illustrations and writings kept in the scrapbook are vulgar and misogynistic in nature, including, for example, offensive rules written by the obstetrics house staff in 1927 intended for their female colleague Frances Helen Stewart, MD.

This series consists of Skilling

Two interviews of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990.

An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 67 minutes.

As background to the desegregation of hospitals and Washington University School of Medicine, Landau discusses his experiences with segregation in St. Louis as a child, and as medical student, house officer, and resident at Barnes Hospital and the school of medicine. He mentions figures who played a role in desegregation, including David Goldring, Alexis Hartmann, Sr., and Park White, and discusses the obstruction to integration at Barnes from Frank Bradley, the director of the hospital, and the board of trustees. Landau also discusses the desegregation of the school of medicine.

An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 57 minutes.

Julian Mosley, the second Black student to graduate from Washington University School of Medicine, discusses his experiences as a student in the 1960s and recruitment strategies and programs for students from minority groups.

He begins by explaining why he decided to come to Washington University. He discusses the other Black students in his class and his efforts to recruit more Black students to the medical school. Mosley also discusses the work of Robert Lee as Assistant Dean for Minority Student Affairs and his success at recruiting students. He addresses specific efforts on the part of Lee, other students, and the university that supported minority students, including tutoring and individualized programs.

Mosley next discusses the Wessler Committee and later, their recommendations. He addresses the lack of Black professors at Washington University and at the medical school, and the lack of Black students in the residency programs. He also discusses the effects of the Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke on minority student recruitment.

He discusses his experience with integration in high school in East St. Louis, in the Air Force Academy, and at Washington University, and his experiences with professional societies and student medical associations and programs.

Lastly, Mosley explains what he believes needs to be done to recruit more Black graduate students and faculty, and gives his thoughts for the future.

An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 90 minutes.

Series 5 covers certain items in accession 2007-034 pertaining to RG002. This accession contains office files from the Associate Director of Access Services, Barbara Halbrook. The folders in boxes 1-5 are filed alphabetically and they contain information concerning the planning and construction of the Becker Library building, Library budgets, and Library staff organization.

The Gerontological Research Foundation was established in 1954 with support drawn mainly from St. Louis area philanthropy, and particularly the contributions of Erwin P. Stupp, a construction firm executive, who thereafter served as president. The foundation was chartered to underwrite clinical and research programs, assist indigent patients, and provide scholarships to students wishing to specialize in the field. WBK was named scientific director and included on his advisory council were faculty colleagues E. V. Cowdry, John Esben Kirk, and Albert I. Lansing, among others. The foundation was liquidated in 1965 and its endowment donated to WUSM in memory of WBK. The materials in this series were written for general public information.

In 1928 WBK married Willie Mae Weissinger of St. Louis. In their later married life, Mrs. Kountz was very active in raising financial support for her husband's specialty through work with women's clubs. Following WBK's death, Mrs. Kountz corresponded with several of his colleagues, the basis of this series. Most numerous are letters from Washington University Vice Chancellors for Medical Affairs, William H. Danforth, and his successor Samuel B. Guze, and the first Kountz Professor, Hugh B. Chaplin.

In addition to a green plastic index card box (BOX 1), this series includes two identical 16mm microfilm reels of the index cards that are stored in Series 4, Box 19. Accession 1990-018.

The WUSM Dean's Office ceased creating paper copies of the Executive Faculty meeting minutes and agendas in the fall of 2015.  There are no hardcopy files in this Series.  PDFs only.

Photographs taken in 2019 by Tim Parker of oil portraits that hung in Queeny Tower before being relocated.