Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Chicago Medical Center Reopening [PAGE 2]

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ADDRESS BY D. A. K. STEELE, M. D, LL. D. Presentation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago to the Trustees of the University of Illinois, March 6, 1918. Early last summer a movement was inaugurated by the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago which resulted in the appointment of your speaker as Chairman of a committee to secure the property of the College for the University of Illinois, as its permanent medical department. The other members of this eommittee were Drs. B. L. Heintz, President of the Alumni Association, and Charles Davison, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the University, and it is to the tireless efforts of these men during the past year, aided by the enthusiastic and generous support of the students and Alumni of the College, and the practical assistance of the Faculty, officers and stockholders that I am enabled today to transfer the College to the University. Mr. President, in handing over to you this deed and bill of sale, I am not only transferring to the Trustees of the University the tangible property of the College, but with it also goes the franchise, the good will and the high ideals we have maintained for the past thirty-one years in developing the College. We tender you also our Faculty, our students and our Alumni, and I pledge you the loyal support of each and every one of them. President James and Members of the Board of Trustees, in voluntarily relinquishing the control and ownership of this medical school, we realize tfoat the University is greater than the College, that the State is greater than the University, and that your aspirations and desire to build up and develop a great medical department for the State University equal if not superior to any other similar department in any State in the Union, which shall stand as the exponent of modern scientific medical teaching, is greater than all of these combined. Realizing this, we are filled with larger -and nobler thoughts and gladly place our beloved College in your charge. It is worthy of honor and praise for what it has done, but will be worthy of greater honor in what it promises to do under your guidance and direction in fulfilling its manifest destiny in the future. President Abbott, and Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: By the unanimous vote of the officers, directors and stockholders of the corporation of the College of Physicians and Burgeons of Chicago, I place in your hands the title to all of their property*

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