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Syracuse Free Dispensary, Then and Now
The Syracuse Free Dispensary building, prior to 1964 (left) and in 2014 (right). In the days before Medicare and Medicaid, sick and injured Syracusans who had no money for doctors’ bills could be seen...
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Got a quarter? Looking for gems for the 2014 time capsule
Upstate President Carlyle Jacobsen, PhD (1902-1974) and an unidentified man place a time capsule in the cornerstone of Upstate’s downtown campus hospital, 1963. Upstate is collecting items and...
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Love Potion ’65: A gall bladder, a black out and a blizzard
Paul Berman MD and Yvonne Axtell met at the newly opened Upstate University Hospital. Their wedding day, 1966. The hospital’s 50th anniversary — and this cold, snowy winter — inspired Paul Berman MD,...
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1958: Citizens envision community hospital
Going over tract of Onondaga County Sanatorium land as the probable site for the new Community Hospital, May 4, 1958. Published in the Syracuse Newspapers. From the Onondaga Historical Association. The...
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Shocking news in ’64: Smoking causes lung cancer
Cigarettes were prominently displayed at the gift shop of the former Community-General Hospital, circa 1970. Pictured are hospital volunteers Peg Roth and Jayne Hayes. From the Health Sciences Library,...
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Jake’s take on how to build a hospital
Carlyle “Jake” Jacobsen laying the cornerstone for Upstate’s downtown hospital, 1963 More than 50 years ago, Upstate President Carlyle “Jake” Jacobsen PhD (1902-1974) began working on the creation of...
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Three governors, one hospital, three cheers
Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his wife, Happy, tour the new Upstate hospital in 1965. Behind them are Drs. Carlyle and Cookie Jacobsen. Collection of Upstate’s Health Sciences Library. In our April 3...
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Volunteers in 2014: Pinafores not required
1968: Auxiliary members and a volunteer at the former Community-General Hospital look at the thousands of hours devoted to helping patients and caregivers. Note the pinafore on the volunteer at right....
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1964: A very good year for hospitals…and children’s books
Mary Laverty; Alina, 5, and her father, Paul, of Baldwinsville; Kendreona, 3, and her cousin, Kiavoni, 14, read “Whistle for Willie” in the Family Resource Center at the Upstate Golisano Children’s...
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Assemblyman Roberts: Growing up down the street from Upstate
Samuel Roberts (on the right in a striped sweater) with friends and relatives at his childhood home on Rose Ave. — just down the street from what would be Upstate University Hospital. Circa 1960....
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“A smile in snowy white and strength in a starched skirt”
Class of 1963, School of Nursing, General Hospital of Syracuse. (This school was on the corner of East Castle and South State streets in Syracuse. It moved to Community-General Hospital in 1964....
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Wanna smile? Just listen to Jim.
James H. Abbott, hospital administrator at Upstate, 1964-1971 and 1989-2000. Photo circa 1964. Need a boost? Ask retired hospital administrator James H. Abbott about his career at Upstate. “Very...
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“Happy to share,” writes Dr. Albert Falcone
Alfred Falcone DDS, MD cared for the first baby born at Community Hospital on January 1, 1963. “I am full of stories and happy to share,” wrote Alfred Falcone DDS, MD in response to a request for...
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A ship, a fort and the medical school meeting
Ernest Braun, Viennese chemist and Holocaust survivor (center) met with Herman Weiskotten MD, dean, College of Medicine (left) and JG Fred Hiss MD, professor, College of Medicine (right) in 1945. Every...
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Artwork at Upstate: Important 50 years ago, important today
July 1964: Upstate President Carlyle “Jake” Jacobsen, PhD, discusses the commemorative bronze plaque with colleagues. Anyone who walks in the first-floor lobby of Upstate’s downtown hospital can see a...
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July: A great month for ribbon-cuttings and new buildings
Estella Nolta, the first patient at Upstate University Hospital, cut the ribbon to the new building on July 20, 1964. She is flanked by Upstate President Carlyle “Jake” Jacobsen PhD on the left and...
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Battling cancer and saving kids at the Waters Center
William Waters MD (upper left, with bow tie) and colleagues, circa 1964. Ten years ago, Upstate’s Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders was named in his memory. Richard Sills MD was a high...
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She’s so Syracuse, she remembers Renwick Place
Former Renwick Place resident Traci Hinton, in costume and ready to perform. Circa 1960. The 50th anniversary of the opening of the Upstate hospitals and the “I’m so Syracuse” memory project inspire...
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‘Clear thinking requires courage’ said the late Dr. Szasz
This illustration showing Dr. Szasz navigating an analyst’s couch through stormy seas sums up his role in the world of psychiatry. Professor Thomas Szasz MD, circa 1959 Legendary psychiatrist Thomas...
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School’s in session and backpacks are full
Upstate medical student Alex Rodriguez paints the face of an elementary school student at the Back To School Barbecue. Tuesday, September 2 marks the first day of school for thousands of Syracuse...
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