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The Alabama Veterinary Medical Association 29ears

State VeterinaryDiagnostic Laboratories

in Alabama

Dr. Redding S. Sugg, formerstate veterinarian and deanof the Auburn College ofVeterinary Medicine(AUCVM), and Dr.

Charles Roberts are credited with thedevelopment of the Auburn diagnosticlaboratory in 1947. Veterinarians wereasking the school for diagnosticassistance, and Dean Sugg needed acoordinator of laboratory testing andreporting. The program becameassociated with the hog cholera andbrucellosis laboratories at the school,with growing involvement by theAlabama Livestock and SanitationBoard and the Department ofAgriculture and Industries. Thelaboratory expanded into the old serumplant near Cary Hall. Dr. Robertscontinued in a leadership role with thestate diagnostic laboratory for thirtyyears. As director of the laboratory andprofessor of Pathology and Parasitology,he held a joint appointment with theAUCVM. His retirement coincided withthe transition of the dean’s chair fromDr. James Greene to Dr. J. T. Vaughanand the opening of a new state facility,the Charles S. Roberts VeterinaryDiagnostic Laboratory in 1978.

To serve the growing poultryindustry in North Alabama, theDepartment of Agriculture andIndustries opened a poultry diagnosticlaboratory in Albertville in 1957. In1961 a swine diagnostic laboratory wasestablished in Elba.

In 1978 the department built a newlaboratory at Auburn University near therelatively new College of Veterinary

Medicine complex south of the maincampus. Dr. Frank E. Mitchell becamethe second director of the laboratory,serving until 1987. With his leadershipand the support of the state veterinarian,Dr. J. Lee Alley, the staff increased fromsix to thirty employees to meet thegrowing demand for services fromveterinarians and the livestock andpoultry producers of Alabama. Althougha formal contractual relationship existedbetween the Department of Agricultureand AUCVM, a spirit of cooperationand interaction by faculty and diagnosticlaboratory veterinarians yieldedadvances in animal and poultry diseasediagnosis and surveillance.

The new laboratory in Auburnsignificantly expanded the role and theexpectations of the diagnosticlaboratories in Alabama. This fullservice laboratory and its support of thebranch laboratories provided Alabamafor the first time with comprehensiveservices for agriculture, companionanimals, and animal-related publichealth. The Auburn laboratory providedin-depth diagnostic testing and becamethe reference laboratory for the branchlaboratories. As agriculture in Alabamahas changed, the diagnostic laboratorieshave adapted to meet the needs. At theswine laboratory in Elba, more than 90percent of the cases are now poultry. In

1995 a third branch laboratory openedin Hanceville to meet the needs oflivestock and poultry producers innorthern Alabama.

Dr. Frederic J. Hoerr became thelaboratory’s third director in 1987 andserves to this day. In the 1990s, apartnership of veterinarians andlivestock and poultry producers securedfunding through the Agricultural BondIssue to construct the Thompson BishopSparks State Diagnostic Laboratory,which opened on May 9, 2006. Thisnew laboratory, located on the AUCVMcampus, has biosafety level II and IIIfacilities designed to meet the globalchallenges of emerging animal andzoonotic diseases. The Department ofAgriculture and Industries, under theleadership of Commissioner RonSparks, opened a new diagnosticlaboratory in Elba in 2006. TheAlbertville laboratory was moved toBoaz in 1983, and is scheduled forreplacement by a new facility in 2007.

In addition to the directors,veterinary diagnosticians who haveworked at the Auburn Laboratoryinclude: Drs. George D’Andrea, SusanLockaby, Leland Nuehring, Sara Rowe,Doris Oliveira, Lloyd Lauerman, JackRhyan, Robert Porter, Price Stone, andRobert Matthews. United StatesDepartment of Agriculture (USDA)veterinarians have included Drs. J. LeeAlley, Curtis Christenberry, DonCheatham, O. W. Hester, Ken Angel,and others associated with federal-statecooperative programs. s

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The first veterinarytechnology program inAlabama originated in 1975at Snead State CommunityCollege (then a junior

college), in Boaz, Alabama, and wasinitially accredited by the AmericanVeterinary Medical Association(AVMA) in 1979. The program at SneedState had two directors during itsexistence: Dr. Mike Creel for the firstten years and Dr. Glenn Sexton for thelast twenty years. The program was theonly accredited veterinary technologyprogram offered in the state of Alabama.Some of the instructors during that timeincluded these Licensed VeterinaryTechnicians: Kenneth Munn, DianeRooke, Dedra Wilson, Debbie Whitten,Tammie Adams, Mikky Campbell,Tammy Robinson, and Guyanne Harris.

For the first nine years, theVeterinary Technology Program (VTP)was housed in the basement of themen’s dormitory. Large animal trainingconsisted of clinic rotations with a local

veterinary practice. In the fall of 1984,the program moved into a new facilityon campus which consisted ofclassrooms, laboratories, nursing, andsurgical areas. Small animals werehoused at this facility for trainingpurposes. In the fall of 1986, theDepartment of Veterinary Technologysecured a lease agreement with a farmlocated approximately six miles fromthe college where large animals (horses,cows, pigs, sheep, and goats) werehoused for training purposes and whereclinics were conducted on a regular andcontinuing basis by the veterinarytechnology faculty and staff. Thisagreement continued until the fall of2002 when a new farm lease agreementwas made at a location approximately

one mile from the campus.The Veterinary Technology Program

was initially on the quarter system, withsix quarters on campus and a onequarter preceptorship at a veterinarypractice facility. In the fall of 1998, alljunior and community colleges inAlabama converted to the semestersystem. The VTP then consisted of foursemesters on campus and a one semesterpreceptorship at a veterinary practicefacility.

The major objective of theVeterinary Technology Program was toprovide a complete training andeducational program for veterinarytechnology students according to AVMAguidelines. It was the purpose of theprogram to educate and train individualscapable of providing the necessarytechnical support for veterinarians in allfields of veterinary medicine, includingprivate practice (large, small, andmixed), research, teaching, andregulatory medicine.

Secondary objectives included

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Training ProgramsA Historical Summary

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providing continuing education forgraduates, educating veterinarians in theuse of veterinary technicians, providinginformation to technicians andveterinarians concerning employmentopportunities, and fostering publicrelations for both the veterinarytechnician and veterinary professions.

The Veterinary Technology Programat Snead State maintained fullaccreditation by the AVMA during itsentire existence. Upon successfulcompletion of the prescribed course ofstudy (a two year curriculum), studentsare awarded the Associate Degree inApplied Science (A.A.S.) and areeligible for licensure by the AlabamaState Board of Veterinary MedicalExaminers as Licensed VeterinaryTechnicians (LVTs). The boardconstructed their own examination forlicensing veterinary technicians from1975 to 1984. Then the ProfessionalExamination Service (PES) became theprovider of the VeterinaryTechnician National Exam(VTNE) until 2005, when theAmerican Association ofVeterinary State Boards tookover the exam responsibilities.

After thirty years, theVeterinary Technology Programat Snead State closed in thespring of 2005 with the last andlargest class of twenty-ninegraduates. Throughout itsexistence the VTP wassupported by the AlabamaVeterinary Medical Association(ALVMA). In the early years,the ALVMA assisted withexpenses by allowing some of its spaceand speakers at the summer meetings tobe used by the Alabama VeterinaryTechnician Association for continuingeducation. The ALVMA also establishedtwo scholarships awarded annually; oneto a first-year student and one to asecond-year student. The establishmentof a Veterinary Technician LiaisonCommittee by the ALVMA furtherstrengthened the communicationbetween the ALVMA, the VTP, andpracticing veterinary technicians.

The Alabama Academy of VeterinaryPractice (AAVP) also established ascholarship awarded to a second-year

student on an annual basis. Thisscholarship continued as long as theAAVP was in existence.

In June 2005 Jefferson StateCommunity College began structuring adistance education program inveterinary technology, with Michelle(Mikky) Campbell, LVT, as the interimdirector and Dr. Glenn Sexton as aconsultant. In August 2005 the firstclass began with fifty-two students, andKristi Rodas, LVT, was hired as aninstructor for the program. In May 2006Dr. Christie Wallace was hired as thedirector.

There are two parts to the distanceeducation program. One is thecomputerized didactic part through WebCT, in which students take classes,complete course work, and take on-lineexaminations. The midterm and finalexams are taken and proctored at acollege site near the student’s homebase. The exams are then mailed back to

the instructor for grading. The secondpart is the clinical portion, in whichstudents are required to work in aveterinary clinic for at least twentyhours per week, in order to gain clinicalexperience and complete clinical tasks.The tasks are video taped and evaluatedby a clinical supervisor, either an LVTor a veterinarian. The video tapes arethen mailed with the evaluation forms tothe Veterinary Technology Program forfinal review and evaluation.

To qualify to sit for the state boardexaminations in Alabama, students mustbe graduates of an AVMA accreditedprogram or a program approved by the

board. At the 2005 summer meeting ofthe ALVMA, the Alabama State Boardof Veterinary Medical Examiners votedto allow graduates of the Jefferson StateDistance Education Program to sit forthe examination. Upon passing the examthese graduates are licensed. A biground of thanks should go to the boardfor their vision and support of theveterinary technology profession andprogram in this state. The initialaccreditation site visit by the Committeeon Veterinary Technician Education andActivities (CVTEA) of the AVMA isscheduled for March 14-16, 2007.

According to the Alabama StateBoard of Veterinary Medical Examiners,the first act incorporating the tasks andduties of “Registered AnimalTechnicians” into the AlabamaVeterinary Practice Act was act No.1224Regular Session 1975. Then in 1986, byAct No. 86-500, the section was revisedto “Licensed Veterinary Technicians”

and the first detailedversion of essentialtasks required by theAVMA wereincluded. There arecurrently 207 activeveterinary techniciansin Alabama, with 16maintaining inactivelicenses. The firstveterinary technicianlicense was issued toJanet Blackstock onDecember 13, 1976.She was a 1976graduate of AbrahamBaldwin College in

Georgia. The first license issued to aSnead State graduate was to Phyllis ZoeAbston on July 11, 1977. Since thenthere have been 516 licenses issued.License # 516 was issued on May 16,2006.

The veterinary technologyprofession has made monumental stridesin the last thirty years, both nationallyand in Alabama. There are now morethan one hundred programs nationwide.Veterinary technicians are an importantlink in providing the advanced healthcare the veterinary profession gives toits patients. s



Auxiliaryto the

Alabama Veterinary Medical Association

The Auxiliary to the AlabamaVeterinary MedicalAssociation held itsorganizational meeting onFebruary 25, 1949, at the

Lyons hotel in Decatur, Alabama. Thepresident of the National Women’sAuxiliary to the American VeterinaryMedical Association attended. ElevenAlabama veterinarian’s wives werepresent at this meeting, asking to berecognized by the national organization.Recognition became official in 1950.

The Alabama Veterinary MedicalAssociation (ALVMA) Auxiliary hasbeen active for 57 years and nowincludes active, affiliate and supportmemberships. Auxiliary members havebeen faithful in recognizing andcarrying out the objectives of theorganization: (1) To assist the ALVMA in advancing

the science and art of veterinarymedicine, including its relationshipto public health and agriculture.

(2) To assist selected veterinarystudents with loans and awards.

(3) To strengthen communicationsamong those associated with theveterinary profession.

The state auxiliary has engaged innumerous activities through the years toraise funds for veterinary student

scholarships and awards, for thenational Student Loan Fund, fordonations of veterinary textbooks toAlabama libraries, for state science fairand 4-H club projects, for theCongressional Fellowship Program, andfor promotion of National Pet Week.Some of these fund-raising activitieshave included raffles for jewelry, salesof cookbooks, tee-shirts (for manyyears), and mulligans for the associationgolf event at the annual meeting.

The first assistance to a veterinarystudent was in 1950 when twentydollars was sent to Dean Sugg to begiven to a needy veterinary student atAlabama Polytechnic Institute, nowAuburn University. This award hascontinued annually, and in 1958 wasnamed the R.S. Sugg Memorial Award.At that time an I.S. McAdory Awardwas also established. The T.S. WilliamsHonorary Award and the TuskegeeDean’s Award, (Tuskegee University

School of Veterinary Medicine) alsohave been established. The monetaryamount has increased through the years,and all of these awards continue today.

The auxiliary has added otherawards and recognitions through theyears, rewarding individuals who haveperformed exceptional work inpromoting the profession throughout thestate. Members who have workedeffectively with the auxiliary projectsand outstanding members of the studentchapters of the AVMA Auxiliary arerecognized annually with awards.

The annual meeting of the auxiliaryhas normally been held in conjunctionwith the association’s annual meeting.In addition to the usual business,fundraising, recognitions andpresentation of awards, each annualmeeting includes excellent socialactivities. Those attending through theyears have participated in tours, lecturesand craft or other demonstrations.Entertainment in the past has includedmusic, comedy, dances, teas, etc.

The ALVMA Auxiliary will continueto work with the association to promotethe profession. The auxiliary viewsveterinary medicine to be a very caringprofession and believes that its supportis worth the work. s

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ConstituentAssociations

of the Alabama Veterinary Medical Association

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MONTGOMERY

LAUDERDALE

LIMESTONE

COLBERT

FRANKLINLAWRENCE

MORGAN

MADISON JACKSON

DEKALBMARSHALL

CHEROKEE

ETOWAH

CALHOUN

CLEBURNE

CULLMAN

BLOUNT

ST. CLAIR

WINSTONMARION

LAMAR FAYETTEWALKER

TALLADEGA

JEFFERSON

TUSCALOOSA

RANDOLPHCLAY

PICKENS

BIBB

CHILTON

CHAMBERSTALLAPOOSACOOSA

PERRYHALE

GREENE

SUMTERMARENGO

AUTAUGA

DALLAS

ELMORE LEE

RUSSELLMACON

BULLOCK

BARBOUR

HOUSTONGENEVA

HENRYDALE

COFFEE

PIKE

CRENSHAW

COVINGTON

LOWNDES

BUTLER

ESCAMBIA

CONECUH

CHOCTAW

CLARKE

WILCOX

MONROE

BALDWIN

WASHINGTON

MOBILE

MONTGOMERY

SHELBY

Colbert-Lauderdale County VMA(Florence)

North Alabama VMA(Cullman)

Jefferson County VMA(Birmingham)

Tuscaloosa County VMA(Tuscaloosa)

West Alabama VMA(Selma)

Mobile VMA(Mobile)

Gulf Coast VMA(Robertsdale)

South Central VMA(Brewton)

Greater Dothan VMA(Dothan)

Southeast Alabama VMA(Enterprise)

Central Alabama VMA(Montgomery)

Tuskegee VMA(Tuskegee)

East Alabama VMA(Auburn/Opelika)

Mid State VMA(North Shelby County)

Calhoun County VMA(Anniston)

Sand Mountain VMA(Guntersville)

Madison County VMA(Huntsville)



AuburnUniversity

College of Veterinary MedicineHistory

The College of VeterinaryMedicine at AuburnUniversity and the AlabamaVeterinary MedicalAssociation both stand as

shining tributes to the vision andunstinting efforts of a handful of soulswho, before the turn of the nineteenthcentury, saw the need and theopportunity to establish and legitimizethe veterinary profession in the southernUnited States.

History records that rapid advancesin science and industry are often borneon the wings of war. It is noteworthythat the Civil War coincided with theproof of the Germ Theory in thelaboratories of Louis Pasteur (1860),making the beginnings of modernmedicine and ushering in the GoldenAge of bacteriology. Wound infectionsand contagious plagues had been thebéte noire of civilization from thebeginnings of time. Following Pasteur’s

momentous revelation, discovery of thetrue etiology of these infectionsfollowed in rapid-fire order. About thetime that Charles A. Cary wasgraduating in veterinary medicine atIowa State University (1887), RobertKoch had identified the cause oftuberculosis and incorporated thefindings of Theobald Smith of the U.S.Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) to test

infected cattle and require compulsorypasteurization of milk products. Also ofnote at the time was the discovery of thepiroplasm causing Texas tick fever andits mode of transmission. In so doing,Frederick Kilboune and Cooper Curtice,working under Theobald Smith in thelaboratories of the BAI, demonstratedfor the first time the role of insectvectors of both human and animalcontagion, opening the door toelucidation of the causes of malaria,yellow fever, plague, typhus, andinnumerable other arthropod-bornediseases.

Two other events occurring in thesame time frame (1860-1890) wereseminal in the birth of veterinarymedical education in Alabama. In 1862,a year after Lincoln was electedpresident, Congress passed theHomestead Act, the Morrill Land-GrantCollege Act, and the act establishing theUnited States Department of

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Medicine, Auburn University

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Agriculture, all aimed at assisting thefamily farmer. The Morrill Act, inparticular, provided for agricultural andmechanical colleges throughout thecountry. The Methodist Church had awell-established college in Auburn withno funds to operate it. So in 1872, theEast Alabama Male College, under theadministration at that time of Dr. B. B.Ross, chairman of the faculty board andwith the support of the governor ofAlabama, made a successful bid forAlabama’s land grant college,transferring ownership of the churchcollege to the state of Alabama. Thesecond Morrill Land-Grant College Actin 1890 provided annual appropriationsto each state to support its land-grantcollege. It also provided funding forpublicly supported black institutions(including Tuskegee Institute) whichbecame known as the Colleges of 1890.

The second major event occurred in1887 with the passage of the Hatch Actwhich provided for a yearly grant toeach state for the support of anagricultural experiment station. This

coincided with the administration ofWilliam Leroy Broun, president of theAlabama Agricultural and MechanicalCollege.

Up until the turn of the century,Germany and France had beenfountainheads of medical andcomparative (veterinary) medicalknowledge. It was into this excitingperiod of discovery in 1891 that Brounand Cary, a University of Missourigraduate student of Dr. Paul Paguin’s —himself a student of Louis Pasteur —had a chance meeting on a train.President Broun, intent on emphasizingthe sciences at Auburn, recognized thepotential in Cary and persuaded him tojoin the faculty at Auburn as professorof veterinary science and physiology inthe Agricultural Experiment Station. Therest, as they say, is history.

In satisfaction of his agreement withPresident Broun, Cary pursued hisgraduate studies further in thelaboratories of Robert Koch inGermany, returning to Auburn in 1893.An immediate benefit of Cary’s first-

hand acquaintance with the work ofPasteur and Koch was that Alabama wasone of the first states in the nation toinstitute the use of tuberculin fordetection of tuberculosis in cattle andthe application of public meat and milkinspection and the pasteurizationprocess. This was the finest example ofthe practice of one medicine. Applyingthe findings of Kilborne and Curtice,Cary tackled the South’s problem withtick fever which had effectivelyparalyzed the cattle industry. But toexecute these multiple responsibilities,there needed to be a formal structure touse as a base of operations. So, inresponse to his fifteen years of effortsstatewide, as well as a number ofnational offices and with the support ofthen-President Charles C. Thach, Carysucceeded in establishing the College ofVeterinary Medicine — the first in theentire southern United States below 40degrees north latitude, with theexception of Kansas and Colorado.(Auburn is tied with Colorado forseventh oldest in the United States.)



Cary was, of course, appointed its firstdean.

In the same year, with the urging ofPresident Thach, the AlabamaLegislature made Cary the stateveterinarian. Before the year’s end,together with eleven Alabamaveterinarians who were graduates ofapproved veterinary colleges, Caryorganized the Alabama VeterinaryMedical Association with the purpose ofestablishing standards ofprofessional ethics,education, public health,and licensure. This greatlyincreased publicrecognition of accreditedgraduates of professionalcolleges and sharpened thedistinction between thepractice of veterinarymedicine by licensedgraduates and the all-too-common laymen andfarriers on whom thepublic had had to rely.Cary served as theassociation’s secretary-treasurer for twenty-eightyears until his death in1935.

Covering all basesduring that inaugural year, Cary alsoorganized a student veterinary medicalassociation. His recognition of theimportance of organized veterinarymedicine and his unflagging support atthe national as well as the regionallevels earned him the presidency of theAmerican Veterinary MedicalAssociation in 1920.

The original veterinary departmentboasted a three-story building withindependent gas, water, and sewersystem. It included classrooms,museums, and laboratories forphysiology, bacteriology, pathology, andphotography. Separate facilitiesprovided housing for laboratoryanimals, anatomical studies, and ahospital for livestock. Paddocks andsheds had sufficient capacity for 125cattle or other large animals as well asisolation quarters for contagiousdiseases. The department had closerelationships with the departments ofanimal husbandry, pharmacy, chemistry,

botany, and physics.Requirements for admission were:

18 years of age, of good moralcharacter, and passage of a satisfactoryexamination on: (1) geography andhistory of the United States, (2) English(grammar and composition), (3) reading(an extensive booklist of the classics ofliterature), and (4) mathematics (throughalgebra and geometry). Transferstudents had to supply certificates of

honorable discharge from previouscolleges. It is interesting that, althoughCary reinforced Broun’s desire toemphasize science, he also retainedsignificant elements of the old liberalarts curricula. Cary himself wasmultilingual and continued to follow theprofessional literature in German andperhaps French. The three-year courseleading to the DVM degree consisted ofthree terms per year that covered animpressive array of subject matterranging from physics, chemistry, botany,pharmacy, and livestock management toall the basic and clinical sciences taughtin a modern curriculum today. Inaddition, a thesis was required in allthree terms of the last year. Suffice it tosay the graduate was deserving of aprofessional degree.

Nineteen students were registered in1907, increasing to fifty-one by 1909 atwhich time five qualified for theirdegrees. These numbers continued torise to seventy-four registrants and

twenty-three graduates in 1916. WorldWar I intervened and the studentpopulation experienced a sharp declinewhich extended through the nextdecade. This could be attributed toseveral factors incident to the war. Aninfestation of boll weevils from Mexicoswept across the South early in thetwentieth century; a virtual embargowas imposed on southern cattle due totick fever; a large segment of available

labor moved north to workin factories; and the relianceon the horse and mule fordraft and transportation wasbeing replaced by the use ofsteam- and gasoline-poweredinternal combustion engines.A farmer’s depression in theSouth hit in the 1920s beforethe Great Depressionenveloped the country. It was1932 before student numbersregained their pre-warstrength, and then of coursethe Great Depression had tobe dealt with.

In less than anotherdecade, World War IIarrived. At the cessation ofhostilities in 1945, veteransreturning to school under the

GI Bill accounted for a sharp rebound innumbers with students matriculatingfrom as far away as New England. Bythe time the Southern RegionalEducation Board was established in1948 (which incidentally was thebrainchild of Dean Redding Sugg, 1940-1958), Auburn was providing contractspaces for students from a nine-statearea of the Southeast, and at one timeboasted an annual enrollment of nearlyfive hundred students.

Proceeding apace with the growth ofthe young school during these uncertaintimes were aggressive programs toeradicate tick fever, tuberculosis, hogcholera, and rabies. These consumed theenergies and perennially outstripped theresources of the college, the stateassociation, and the office of the stateveterinarian. However, they persevered,and by 1935 the BAI and USDAcertified that tuberculosis in Alabamacattle had been reduced to less than 0.05percent; tick fever was under control



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July 1907.Curtis, Bennie Sue: Alabama A&M Featured Transition Away From Classics, Industrial Revolution Changed Curricula from Cultural to

Mechanical. Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1960.Lamberth, Minnie: King Cotton, The Crop That Grew Montgomery. Montgomery Living. Vol. 11, No. 6, Montgomery, AL, August 2006.Pelikan, Jaroslav: The Vindication of Tradition, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1983.Rasumssen, W.D.: Taking the University to the People, Seventy-five Years of Cooperative Extension, Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1989.Schafer, Elisabeth Diane: Reveille of Professionalism: Alabama Veterinary Medical Association, 1907-1952. Master of Arts Graduate Thesis,

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of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1978.

bicentennial, the college and theprofession of veterinary medicine standat the forefront of the ranks of onemedicine.

For a profession that had languishedin the shadow of European science forthe first 350 years of its existence in theNew World, to have emerged to itscurrent stature in the twentieth centuryis the finest tribute that can be paid tothese dedicated men and women whohave gone before, and the sternestchallenge that can be made to those whocarry the torch today. Perhaps Goethe(1749-1832) said it best:

“What you have as heritage,take now as task;For thus you will make it your own!”Goethe, Faust s

distinction until his retirement in 1977.He was succeeded in turn by JohnThomas Vaughan ’55, who served untilhis retirement in 1995. The currentdean, Timothy R. Boosinger (Purdue’76), is completing his eleventh year atthe College’s helm following a decadeof impressive growth.

It may be said that the institution’sstability throughout periods of nationalconflict, economic reversals, and seachanges in science and technology is areflection of the fact that it hasexperienced only six changes ofleadership in one hundred years. Listingthe accomplishments of each of theadministrations and of the faculties andtheir graduates worldwide would requiremany volumes. May it suffice for thepurposes of this too brief account to saythat, at the commencement of its

and all but eradicated; a program ofbrucellosis eradication had begun the yearbefore; and programs of rabies vaccinationin dogs and of hog cholera preventionwere in progress.

It was also during these years that twoof Dean Cary’s stalwart faculty emergedas leaders of the profession. In 1908, IsaacSadler McAdory graduated fromMcKillips Veterinary College in Chicagoand shortly thereafter joined Cary asprofessor of anatomy and physiology. In1915, Redding Stancill Sugg graduatedfrom A.P.I., and in 1919, after serving inthe Veterinary Corps during World War I,joined the faculty at Auburn as professorof bacteriology. Both men were integral inthe development of the state’s livestockindustry as well as the young school towhich they dedicated their lives. UponDean Cary’s death in 1935, Dr. McAdorywas appointed dean and servedfrom 1935 to 1940. Dean Suggsucceeded Dean McAdory and,with the exception of a three-year interruption (1942-1945)for his second period of servicein the Veterinary Corps duringWorld War II, occupied thedeanship until his death inoffice in 1958.

Graduating under DeanCary in 1933, Dr. JamesEtheridge Greene joined thefaculty of Small AnimalMedicine and Surgery in 1937.After four years of militaryservice in World War II, hereturned as professor and headof his department until hesucceeded Dean Sugg in 1958.Dean Greene served with



TuskegeeUniversity

College of Veterinary Medicine,Nursing and Allied Health

History

The School of VeterinaryMedicine at TuskegeeInstitute (now TuskegeeUniversity) was establishedin 1944. It was the first new

veterinary medical program to be startedin the United States in twenty-fiveyears.

The idea for the program atTuskegee was the brainchild of Dr.Frederick Patterson, a veterinarian andpresident of the institute. Thedesegregation of public education in thestate of Alabama did not take place foranother twenty to twenty-five years.President Patterson believed it wastimely to seek opportunities for“Negros” to pursue his profession, andespecially at a historically black collegein the Deep South.

In planning and developing theSchool of Veterinary Medicine atTuskegee Institute, Dr. Patterson soughtout the advice and counsel of Dr. E. B.

Evans, the college veterinarian at PrairieView A & M College in Texas. Thesecollaborators were both graduates (Dr.Patterson, 1923, and Dr. Evans, 1918) ofthe School of Veterinary Medicine atIowa State College (now Iowa StateUniversity). Having been a student ofDr. Evans at Prairie View A & M, Dr.Patterson gives credit to Dr. Evans forhis decision to study veterinary

medicine. Dr. Patterson joined the faculty at

Tuskegee Institute in 1928 as thecollege veterinarian. “Dr. Pat”, as hewas affectionately known, followed inthe footsteps of an Ohio Stateveterinarian who came to Tuskegeeupon completion of his studies in 1910.

At that time there was only oneschool of veterinary medicine in theSoutheast and ten in the United States.Higher education was not wellsupported in the South. Furthermore,support for southern historically blackcolleges was minimal. Segregationresulted in the lack of opportunity whichled to the paucity of African-Americanveterinarians throughout the UnitedStates. Few schools accepted thesestudents; consequently, the number ofgraduate African-American veterinarianswas low.

At the invitation of Dr. Patterson,who was then president of Tuskegee

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Institute, Dr. Evans took leave ofabsence in 1943 from Prairie View A &M to assist in planning the newveterinary program. The two menrecognized early that the shift insouthern agriculture away from one-crop (cotton) farming to livestockproduction wouldresult in the need formore trainedveterinarians.

Drs. Pattersonand Evans initiateddiscussions with thedeans of several ofthe existing schoolsand with the Bureauof Animal Industryand the U.S.Department ofAgriculture about theneed for such aprogram, particularlyone to be launched ata predominatelyblack institution. Drs.Patterson and Evansidentified four majorobstacles to this newundertaking: (1) thefunding for such aventure would be amajor barrier; (2) theprogramaccreditation andacceptance of thesegraduates by theveterinary professionwas problematic; (3)the demand for theprofessional trainingof African-American veterinarians hadnot been ascertained; and (4) the abilityof Tuskegee’s School of VeterinaryMedicine to recruit the appropriatenumber of African-Americanveterinarians as faculty was yet to bedetermined. In spite of these issues, Drs.Patterson and Evans embarked upon thisventure with great passion.

The charter for Tuskegee Instituteprovided the mechanism for acooperative arrangement between thecollege and the state of Alabama. In1942 President Patterson approached theHonorable Chauncey Sparks, thengovernor of Alabama, seeking increased

levels of support for Tuskegee Instituteto begin graduate-level and professionaltraining in veterinary medicine.President Patterson also approached theGeneral Education Board of theRockefeller Foundation for fundingassistance to construct facilities and

purchase equipment for the proposedSchool of Veterinary Medicine. Both thestate of Alabama and the RockefellerFoundation agreed to provide start-upfunding.

“Regionalization” was anothercritical element in the development ofthe school. In 1948 Tuskegee Institutebecame a charter member of theSouthern Regional Educational Board.The institute was responsible forimproving regional service in veterinarymedicine in the southeast. Through thisarrangement, Tuskegee Institute’sSchool of Veterinary Medicine wasofficially designated to train students for

twelve southeastern states. Because ofthe segregation of the races in that era,these states contracted for the training ofAfrican-American students at Tuskegee.This became an important additionalsource of financial support for thefledgling program.

Classes in the newlyformed veterinarycurriculum started withthe fall term of 1945.Thirteen studentsenrolled in the program.The initial facultyconsisted of sixveterinarians. Dr. Evanswas selected as the firstdean of TuskegeeInstitute’s School ofVeterinary Medicine.

No physical facilitiesyet existed. A veterinaryhospital facility had beenconstructed at the Schoolof Agriculture for thecollege veterinarian, whohad been on the staff ofTuskegee Institute since1910. Temporaryquarters for the School ofVeterinary Medicinewere set up in that thirtyyear old veterinaryhospital, as well as otheravailable institutefacilities. Ultimately, sixnew veterinary buildingsof concrete and steelwith red brick veneerwere erected on campus.Students in the institute’s

building construction program wereutilized for construction of theveterinary facilities, resulting in a muchlower cost than would have otherwiseoccurred.

In the fall of 1946, Dean Evans wasappointed as president of Prairie View A& M College. Dr. T. S. Williams (KSU‘35) was named dean of Tuskegee’sSchool of Veterinary Medicine. Asgraduation approached for the fourstudents who had survived the manygrowing pains of such an enormousundertaking, the Council of Educationof the American Veterinary MedicalAssociation was sent a formal request



for an accreditation site visit. In May1949, following the initial site visit, thecouncil granted the school probationaryaccreditation. The school became fullyaccredited during a subsequent site visitand has maintained full accreditationstatus to this date.

With an initial primary focus onteaching, the school has slowlyimplemented major program activity ingraduate education, leading to a veryactive research program and the Doctorof Philosophy degree in IntegrativeBiosciences. Today, the schoolcontinues its mission to provide anenvironment thatnurtures students andpromotes a spirit ofactive, independentand self-directedlearning. The schooltakes pride in havinga very diversefaculty, staff, andstudent body whereresearch and servicein veterinarymedicine and relateddisciplines activelyoccurs.

In 1995 theSchool of VeterinaryMedicine combinedwith the School of Nursing and AlliedHealth. The College of VeterinaryMedicine, Nursing and Allied Healthpromotes a “one medicine” concept, andcontinues its record of being on thecutting edge of advances in science andmedicine.

As testimony to an avant-gardestatus, Tuskegee University’s School ofVeterinary Medicine has promoted anumber of program activities since itsinception, including: (1) the introductionof the teaching-learning concept inveterinary medicine as the core of itsLearning Resource Center; (2) the

initiation of the International Center forTropical Animal Health, a program thatreflects commitment on the part of theschool as well as the university toeducational opportunities, outreach, andsupport of lesser developed countries;and (3) the establishment of the Centerfor the Study of Human-AnimalInterdependent Relationships.

The veterinary school’s Center forComputational Epidemiology,Bioinformatics and Risk Analysis hasestablished a national and internationalreputation. Additionally, the schooltakes pride in becoming a leader in the

arena of biomedical informationmanagement, as well as its recentinitiative in veterinary bioethics whichis the arm of the university’s NationalCenter for Bioethics in Research andHealth Care.

Between 1972 and 1990, severalsignificant program funding initiativescame about as a result of collaborativeefforts with other minority healthprofessions schools, leading to aninfusion of federal support intoTuskegee’s School of VeterinaryMedicine. This period has been referredto the “Bowie administrative era.”

Several notable program advances wererecorded at the school during this era.These include, in collaboration withHoward University and otherinstitutions, pioneering biomedicalresearch on the cardiovascular systemusing the equine as a model. Three newadditions to the physical infrastructurealso took place: (1) Patterson Hall,which houses the dean’s office, anauditorium, a library, classrooms,offices, and an audiovisual mediacenter; (2) a teaching hospital, withclassrooms, offices, a pharmacy, animalsurgical and treatment areas, and

housing facilities forlarge animals; and (3)Williams-Bowie Hall,a state-of-the-artresearch andinformationtechnology center.

The TuskegeeUniversity’s School ofVeterinary Medicinehas a long history ofcommitment toveterinary service.Limited resourceshave necessitatedunique approachesthat partner strongorganization with

creative funding and non-traditionalpartnerships. With its targeted strategicplan in place, the Tuskegee UniversitySchool of Veterinary Medicine is wellprepared for the challenges of thetwenty-first century. The forceful andsteady leadership of Dean E. B. Evans(ISU ‘18) has been followed by that ofDeans T. S. Williams (KSU ‘35) [1946-1972]; Walter C. Bowie (KSU ‘47)[1972-1990]; James A. Ferguson (TUS‘66) [1990-1995]; Alfonza Atkinson(TUS ‘73) [1996-2004]; and the currentDean Tsegaye Habtemariam (CSU ‘70)[2006 – present] s

ReferencesAdams, W., The Legacy: A History of the Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine. Media Center Press, 1995

Williams, T.S., The Development of a Black Professional School: the School of Veterinary Medicine as a Sociological System. A HistoricalStudy, 1940-1970.

Patterson, F. D., Chronicles of Faith, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1991.

Williams, R.C., Veterinary Medicine at Tuskegee Institute – Then and Now, The Tuskegee Veterinarian, June 1953.



Alabama Animal

HALL OFFAME

The Alabama Animal Hall ofFame (AAHOF) wasstarted in 2003 by a vote ofthe executive board of theAlabama Veterinary

Medical Association. It was to be a partof the Human Animal Bond Committeechaired at that time by Dr. FaithDrumheller. Dr. Drumheller was in factthe organizer behind therecommendation, the subsequentadoption of the AAHOF, and thedevelopment of its charter. The initialinduction was heldat the annualconvention of theAlabamaVeterinary MedicalAssociation(ALVMA) inOrange Beach,Alabama, in June2003. The firstinductee wasDakota, a goldenretriever owned byMichaelKlingfelter.Dakota becameKlingfelter’sprotector and hisbest friend, saving

his life many times by forewarning himof oncoming heart crises. Dakota wasselected by the first AAHOFCommittee, chaired by Dr. Drumhellerand comprised of Dr. Caroline Schafferof Tuskegee, Dr. Ann Daves of Mobile,

Dr. Belinda Hataway ofMontgomery, Dr.Robert Gaddis ofBirmingham, Dr.Alvin Atlas ofBirmingham, andDr. Dan Kuykendallof Auburn.

The firstcommittee also inlarge measuredetermined therequirements and theprotocol necessary forconsideration andinduction into thehall. Nominees arerequired to becompanion or

working animals from the state ofAlabama demonstrating extraordinaryloyalty, courage, service, or intuitiveabilities in their relations with humans.Successful nominees will havedemonstrated exceptional ability whencompared to similar animals in similarconditions. Documentation of thoseabilities is critical for consideration andcould include written testimony, mediacoverage, eyewitness accounts, ordocumentation from a sponsoringorganization. Reasons for nominationvary from single events demonstratingextreme courage to lifetimeachievement. Nominations can be taken

fromveterinarians,clients throughveterinarians,humane groupswithin the state,or constituentveterinary

associations. Nominees may be living ordead but must have the permission ofthe owner, trainer, or representative tobe nominated. Nominations mustinclude at least one photograph if

available, two or moreletters supporting thenomination, and the

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appropriatedocumentation. Eachnominee is placed in apool of nominees andconsidered for three yearsor until it is elected intothe hall. The animal is notconsidered again if it doesnot achieve the requirednumber of votes in any ofthe three years. To beelected into the hall, threequarters of the committeevote for the candidate.

Due to time and spaceconstraints at the annualconvention, the initialinduction ceremony didnot appropriately presentthe complete attributes ofthe inductee, but itcertainly demonstrated theneed for such a ceremonyand emphasized the powerof the human-animal bond.In late 2003 Dr.Drumheller asked Dr. Michael Newmanto chair the committee. At the followingexecutive board meeting of theALVMA, Dr. Newman presented aproposal to redesign the inductionceremony to be a “black tie” dinner anda stand-alone event sothat it would not be partof the annual meeting.The proposal wouldallow expansion of theceremony to includemore inductees,selected speakers, andentertainment, making the ceremonymore appealing each year anddemonstrating our profession’s greatrespect for those individuals whonurtured these extraordinary animals. Inaddition, the committee opted to rotatethe ceremony among the four majormetropolitan areas of thestate which include:Birmingham, Huntsville,Mobile, and Montgomery.

The second induction washeld at the Wynfrey Hotel inBirmingham on January 17,2004. That inductionincluded: Pioneer, a gentlehippotherapy pony who did

his work at the Marianne Green HenrySpecial Equestrian Program at theAlabama Institute for the Deaf andBlind in Talladega; Red Dog, a workingbloodhound with incredible trackingskills from the St. Clair Correctional K-

9 unit in Springville;Paxton, a service guidedog who heroically savedhis owner’s life and who atthe time lived in Anniston;and Fred, a world famouscharacter of a mixed breeddog who adopted the town

of Rockford, Alabama. All four animalswere nominated by veterinarians: DaleLowery, Charles Payton, PaulaThorne, and John Christian,respectively. Local publicity inboth print and electronic mediaoutlets was generated, especially

when two of theinductees attended theevent “dressed to thenines.” Red Dog wore abowtie, and Pioneerwas dressed in full black tie(pants, shirt, vest, tie, and hat)as he happily greeted theattendees at the front door ofthe Wynfrey Hotel. Pioneerwas represented by Tim

Greene but was accompanied by anentire entourage. Paxton wasrepresented by Jerry McKee, and RedDog brought his handler Wade Sanders.Fred was represented by Kenneth andSherry Shaw, but his memory was keptby all the residents of Rockford.

The third induction was held inHuntsville on January 29, 2005, withthree inductees honored: Miss Baker,Jack, and Tiger. The Space and RocketCenter was the venue for the ceremonybecause of a very small monkey, arhesus macaque named Miss Baker. In1959 Miss Baker and her rocketshipmate Able made the first spaceflight with a live animal on board. Shemade the trip with nary a rise inheartbeat, and upon recovery she wasgiven a snack and promptly rolled overand took a nap. Miss Baker wasinducted because she is credited withinfluencing countless young children toconsider careers in the space program.To this day children still leave a bananaon her memorial when they visit theCenter. She was nominated by Dr.Charles Horton and represented by IreneWilhite from the Space and RocketCenter. Jack is a particularly handsomemalamute who saved his owner,Karmym Tipps, from certain death whenher home in Athens caught fire. Tippsrescued Jack from a difficult life, buthis repayment clearly was adequate.Jack was nominated by Dr. Tavis Whitefrom Toney. The final inductee wasTiger, the golden eagle mascot ofAuburn University. She was nominatedby Dr. Kent Armstrong fromBirmingham and was represented by Dr.

Jamie Bellah of Auburn.While Tiger representsAuburn University, shealso is a national figure forwildlife preservationgenerally and raptor rescueand rehabilitationspecifically. In that activityshe has been unsurpassedand deserving of heraward.

Between the second and thirdinduction ceremonies, the AAHOFCommittee introduced an award to begiven to individuals who haveperformed work benefiting people and

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animals. The committee named theseawards after two men who dedicatedtheir lives to human and animal welfarethrough their careers and by theirexample. Dr. Walter C. Bowie was thedean at Tuskegee School of VeterinaryMedicine for eighteen years and was aleader in developing pet-facilitatedtherapy programs for people which aremodels for use today. Dr. M. K. Heathhad a general practice in Birminghamfor years but returned toAuburn where for many moreyears he helped turn studentsinto learned, compassionatecolleagues through hisdemeanor and teaching ability.The award was appropriatelynamed the Bowie-HeathHumanitarian Award (BHHA).

The first BHHA was givento Nina Beal from Huntsvillewhose long history of animalcare included helping to startthe Greater Huntsville AnimalShelter and later her ownshelter called the Ark. Herefforts to educate the publicabout animals wereextraordinary as was herdedication to homeless andunwanted companion animals.Nancy Pett from Decatur, alsodedicated to the care ofhomeless animals, showed impressiveinterest in teaching people aboutanimals and their care,particularly at-home petcare and training. MimiBynum and ConnieGates together started apet therapy organizationin Huntsville, whichgrew from two peopleand their two pets(Connie’s Annie and Mimi’s Natchez) toan organization with some 50,000annual visits to people in need of theunconditional love only animals cangive.

The fourth induction ceremony washeld in Montgomery on September 9,2006. The date was chosen to coincidewith the fifth anniversary of theSeptember 11, 2001, tragedy because ofa special keynote speaker, MichaelHingson. Hingson, who has been blindfrom birth, worked in the World Trade

Center in NewYork in anoffice locatedon the seventy-eighth floorbelow the planeimpact area. Onthat fateful day,he and hisguide dog,Roselle, were

able to escape the building. He sharedtheir inspiring story at the induction

ceremony and innumerous mediainterviews while inMontgomery.

The inductees of2006 include Gucci,Matilda, and Muffin.Gucci was terriblyabused and maimed as a

puppy, but he survived thanks to Dr.Douglas James of Mobile. Gucci’splight eventually prompted the AlabamaLegislature to pass a new and strongeranimal abuse law,appropriately calledthe “Gucci Law.”Gucci wasnominated by Dr.Laurie Green fromMobile. Matilda, theoldest chicken onrecord and a national

entertainer, wasalso inducted. Shewas owned andhandled by DonnaBarton and wasnominated by BrittAnimal Hospital ofBirmingham. Thethird inductee of2006 was a bravelittle Boston terriernamed Muffin,

who saved her owners from a fire in theirhome in Hueytown. She was owned andloved by Bobby and Judy Wall and wasnominated by Dr. A. David Hayes also ofHueytown.

The fourth ceremony honored threeBHHA recipients. Lynne Fridley waschosen because her work in humaneshelters and for the Maddie’s Fund hashad great influence in animal care acrossthe state. Jama Singley won the awardbecause of her care and diligence as thechief animal cruelty investigator with theDepartment of Animal ProtectionServices, a division of the Lee CountyHumane Society. Dr. Janet M. Haslerigreceived the award because of hercommitment to the humane care ofanimals as the first and only president ofthe Macon County Humane Society.

Through the first four years of theAlabama Animal Hall of Fame, theassociation has seen great strides ingrowth and awareness across the state.While the first induction was barelynoticed, the second was attended by 86participants. Attendance of the thirdceremony rose to 142, and the fourth wasattended by 166 interested individuals.Media attention has more than doubledbetween the third and fourth induction,and the number of nominations has alsoincreased. The AAHOF truly reflects thestrength of the human-animal bond andthe relationship we have with animals.

It has been said that people wouldnever have becomecivilized withoutanimals. Theemotions generatedby stories highlightedat the AlabamaAnimal Hall of FameInduction Ceremonystrongly support thatstatement. s

To our members and partners for

years of service and dedication to the profession of veterinary medicine in Alabama

1907-2007

ALABAMA VMAVeterinarians

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years of service and dedication to the profession of veterinary medicine in Alabama

1907-2007

ALABAMA VMAVeterinarians

Protecting People, Pets and Livestock Yesterday, Today and Always


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