University of Virginia Library

On Sabbatical

Dr. Bean is on sabbatical leave
from the State University of Iowa
where he is professor and head of
the department of internal
medicine. His study of Walter
Reed memorabilia at the University
is the first step in a plan to
write a history on the work and
life of Dr. Reed, conqueror of
the dread yellow fever in Cuba
in 1899-1900.

Dr. Bean didn't know much
about Walter Reed until asked to
talk at the University on September
13, 1951, to mark the 100th
anniversary of Reed's birth at
Gloucester County, Va.

That talk started his research
and since then he's come to know
Reed, the man, fairly well.