Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology Duplicate Vintage Books for Sale April 2001

BULLETIN OF ANESTHESIA HISTORY

would be possible. The Palo Alto Clinic also had a sabbatical program (4 months/' every 6 years), and he was a ble to take sab­ baticals at the University of Pennsylvania twice and in Cardiff, Wales, with William Mushin. Before he left the Mayo Clinic, he be­ gan interviewing older staff to document the beginning of this important institu­ tion. He joined the Oral History Associa­ tion, and through that, got into the video­ tape interview format, on which the WLM's Living History program is based. D r. John Leahey of Philadelphia p rovided critical technical support for this p rogram and is considered the co-founder, along with D r. Pender. This p rogram began in 1 965; there are now more than 1 50 taped interviews. This important program documents our early history and has been an example to other specialty organizations. The Living History program is on-going, and the tapes

are widely used. Pender's many activities in anesthesia included the Travel Club (founded by John Lundy), the Academy of Anesthesiology (serving as president in 1 96 5 ), the AUA, the WLM Board o f Trustees (from 1 9691 9 7 8 ), the Board of Trustees of the Guedel Memorial Center, chairman of the Section on Anesthesia of the Ame rican Medical Association and associate editor of the jour­ nal Anesthesiology (1956- 1 96 5 ). These ac­ tivities were unusual for someone in pri­ vate practice then-and now. Bill Pender, with typical modesty, considered himself a perfectionist and someone of average a bil­ i ty who succeeded by increased e ffort. People with such characteristics were an essential component to move anesthesia forwa rd a s it developed into a true spe­ cialty, in addition to the few brilliant lead­ ers. Bill Pender certainly did his part, and we'll miss him very, very much. As a final

Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology Duplicate Vintage Books for Sale April 2001 To order any of the following volumes, please contact: Karen Bieterman, Assistant Librarian Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology 520 N. Northwest Highway Pa rk Ridge, IL 60068-2573 phone: (847) 825-5586, ext. 5 8 fax: (847) 825-1 692 C rawford JS. Principles and P ractice . oJObstetricAnaesthesia. 2 nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific; 1 965. $20.00 Eckenhoff JE. Anesthesia from Colonial T imes. - A HistOlY ojAnesthesia at the University oj Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott; 1 966. $20.00 Gray JS. PulmonalY Ventilation and its Physiological Regulation. Springfield: Charles C . Thomas; 1 950. $5.00 Guedel AE. InhalationAnesthesia: A Fundamental Guide. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan Company; 1 9 5 8 . $30.00 Heironimus, TW: Mechanical Artificial Ventilation: A Manual Jor Students and P ractitio­ ners. 2 nd edition. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas; 1 97 1 . $5.00 Minnitt RJ, Gillies J. Textbook oj Anaesthetics. 7th edition. B altimore. Williams and Wilkins; 1 948. $1 5 .00 Mushin WW. Anaesthesia Jor the POOl' Risk and Other Essays. (Oxford: Blackwell Scien­ tific; 1 948. $10.00 Natof HE, Sadove MS. Cardiovascular Collapse in theOperating Room. Philadelphia. JB Lippincott; 1 9 5 8 . $5.00 Payne JF, Hill VW . A Symposium on Oxygen Measllrements in Blood and Tissues and their Significance. Boston: Little, B rown and Company; 1966. $5.00 Sherwood-Dunn B. Regional Anesthesia (Victor Pauchet's Technique.) Philadelphia: FA D avis; 1 920. $20.00 Walton JH, Control ojPain with Saddle Block and Higher SpinalAnesthesia. Summit, New Jersey: Ciba Pharmaceutical P roducts; 1 948. $5.00

act, before leaving anesthesia forever, he made a large donation the WLM to sup­ port a room in the museum dedicated to the Mayo Clinic. The new Mayo Clinic Room was dedicated at the ASA Board of Directors meeting March 2, 2001 . It will be used by the curator of the equipment collection, Judith Robbins. This will be another lasting legacy of}ohn "Bill" Pender.

Sources used for this article were my long friendship' with Dr. Pender, an obituary written by the family, Dr. Pender's own Living History interview done in 1983 and a just-released book on the history of the Mayo Clinic Department, Art to Science by K. Rehder, P Southonr and A Sessler.

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