Lenore has been an engaged member of the Philadelphia Regional Chapter, serving on the board in various capacities including as Chair, 2004-2005. She will be stepping down from her current role as By-Laws Chair, where last year she modernized our organization to allow online voting.

Contact me if you are interested in joining the board as By-Laws Chair, fulfilling her term which ends next July, 2012.

Please join me in thanking Lenore for her service to the profession, for her collegiality, and in wishing the best in her future endeavors.

Gary Kaplan
Chair, MLA-Phil
215-503-7676
gary.kaplan@jefferson.edu

Remember to vote in the national election by 12/6!

Gary Kaplan
Chair, MLA-Phil

Stacy Ibrahim, President of b2b-resources.com

Membership in the Chapter provides an invaluable network to enrich our professional careers and expand our educational opportunities; we hope to meet you at the next chapter event.

Patricia Wynne, Associate University Librarian for Information and Clinical Support Services, at Thomas Jefferson University

Membership in the Chapter provides an invaluable network to enrich our professional careers and expand our educational opportunities. We hope to see everyone at the Annual Dinner (Wed April 6)!

Ms. Holloway attended Bryn Mawr College for two years, then earned her undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania College for Women in 1945. She earned her MSLS from Drexel in 1950. Prior to joining CPP in 1964, she assisted Dr. Waldo Nelson in editing the journal Pediatrics. The essentials of Lisabeth’s career in Philadelphia comprise many years of service at the College of Physicians and a long stretch as both volunteer librarian and archivist for the Germantown Historical Society and editor of the Society’s Crier. While at the College of Physicians, she created a small guide to medical-historical holdings in Philadelphia which, though done in the 1970s, is still useful. She left CPP in 1977. From 1981-1992, organizing its historical archives and materials, she was Director of the Center for the History of Footcare and Footwear at the Philadelphia College of Podiatric Medicine (PCPM), which is now part of Temple University. She retired to North Carolina in 1992, where she did some freelance editing.

She published a variety of articles dealing with subjects in medical history and medical bibliography, and non-medical local history as well. Eleven of the twelve citations found in this PubMed search were authored or co-authored by Ms. Holloway: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Holloway%20LM[Author]&cmd=DetailsSearch>. Switch the search to the NLM Catalog, and you’ll find four books to add to that bibliography. Over 17,000 American physicians are briefly listed in Lisabeth Holloway’s Medical Obituaries: American Physicians’ Biographical Notices in Selected Medical Journals before 1907, 2 vols (New York: Garland, 1981).

Ms. Holloway was active in MLA’s History of Medicine Libraries Group and was the editor of a directory of history of health sciences collections published in the early 1970s, as indicated in a history of the Health Sciences Section, The History of History in Three Acts <http://www.mla-hhss.org/history.html>. In 1975, a separate group for librarians in the history of health sciences was proposed, and Ms. Holloway founded MLA’s Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS) group in 1976. She was editor of its publication, Watermark. The group presented Dr. Estelle Brodman with the first Lisabeth M. Holloway Award in 1993 for “outstanding service to the association since its conception and her contributions in significant ways to the development of the organization and to many of its members” (McClure L. “Lisabeth Holloway Award.” Watermark. 1993;16(3):41, cited by McClure LW. A student of history: perspectives on the contributions of Estelle Brodman. J Med Libr Assoc. 2008 Jul;96(3):255-61. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2479061/#mlab-96-03-15-McClure1>)

Many thanks to Ms. Holloway’s son George and to Dr. Steve Peitzman for their assistance. As a student, Dr. Peitzman worked for Lisabeth when she was Curator at CPP, and remained a friend of the family. The two also co-authored several articles on local medical history, published in the Germantown Crier.