Under his guidance the foundation became recognized throughout the world as a pioneer center for research on diseases of animals transmissible to man. Meyer, PhD, pictured here in the 1920s, led the Hooper Foundation for more than three decades. Second in size only to New York’s Rockefeller Institute, Hooper was the first medical research foundation in the United States to be incorporated into a university. One key achievement came in 1914, when the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research selected Parnassus as the site for its work. They improved the curriculum, upgraded admission requirements, expanded research and clinical programs, and built new facilities. Over the next 50 years, leaders of the Affiliated Colleges and UC moved forward with an eye to establishing an institution with a national reputation. He continued to live on Parnassus until 1916, when he died of tuberculosis. Over the next few years, UC physicians and anthropologists learned about Yahi culture from Ishi, and on weekends, hundreds flocked to the anthropology museum to watch him demonstrate arrow-making and other life skills. They named him Ishi, for “man” in the Yahi language. He was starving when he walked out of the wilderness in Oroville, Calif., capturing the attention of UC anthropologists who brought him to San Francisco. In 1911, the last member of the American Indian Yahi tribe began living on the Parnassus campus.
To make room for expanded clinical services and instruction on Parnassus, the medical college basic science departments - pathology, anatomy and physiology - moved to the Berkeley campus.
In 1907, the UC Training School for Nurses was established, adding a fourth professional school to the Affiliated Colleges. With this new facility came the need to recruit nurses and the opportunity to train nursing students. One of the Affiliated Colleges buildings at Parnassus Heights was renovated as a facility for inpatients, outpatients and dental services, and opened in April 1907 with 75 beds. This type of commitment to community service had been put in motion through an 1873 agreement struck by leaders of the Affiliated Colleges with the city to provide patient care at its public health hospital (later named San Francisco General Hospital). Previous interest in establishing a UC teaching hospital on the Parnassus site took on momentum as a civic responsibility to provide care in an area where it was needed. More than 40,000 people took shelter and sought treatment in a tent city in Golden Gate Park after the great 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. Faculty sprung into action treating those injured from the earthquake and subsequent fire. The Affiliated Colleges, located on the hill above the encampment in what was then the far western section of the city, suddenly were situated close to a significant population. When the great San Francisco earthquake destroyed much of San Francisco and the city’s medical facilities in April 1906, more than 40,000 people took shelter and sought treatment in a tent city in Golden Gate Park, where makeshift outdoor hospitals were set up. San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro donated 13 acres on a site overlooking Golden Gate Park - known today as Parnassus Heights - and the new Affiliated Colleges buildings opened in fall 1898. The three Affiliated Colleges - also called UC departments - were located at various sites in San Francisco, and after several years there was strong interest in bringing them together. Eight years later, the UC Regents added a dental college. UC President Daniel Coit Gilman, who strongly supported science education, set a precedent for the young university by affiliating in 1873 with both Toland Medical College and the California College of Pharmacy.
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