Barnes Hospital officials and the Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department of the City of St. Louis dedicate tennis courts in memory of Richard Hudlin, a nationally prominent Black tennis coach and longtime teacher at Sumner High School who successfully sued St. Louis’s Muny Tennis Association to end segregation of the city’s tennis courts in 1945. […]
Photos from the Barnes Record, July 10, 1953
Angelleen Peters-Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN, becomes the first Black leader to serve as Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s vice president and chief nursing executive — also a first within the BJC HealthCare system. Image: Angelleen Peters-Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN
Children’s Hospital offers an internship to young Black women in honor of Helen E. Nash, MD.
The Barnes-Jewish Center for Diversity & Cultural Competence is founded with Brenda Battle appointed as its inaugural director, setting the stage for what would become the BJC Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Office of Community Health Improvement.
Brian Phillips becomes executive director of the Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corporation, which was founded in 1973 to expand the Medical Campus and to stabilize and revitalize its surrounding communities.
After 34 years as a surgical technologist at Barnes Hospital, Thelma Stocking retires. She had assisted Eugene Bricker, MD, with pelvic cancer surgeries and was a longtime scrub nurse for Richard Bradley, MD. “She was the stabilizing force in our OR. [Dr.] Willard Walker had both hands in a patient one day, and Thelma said: […]