Endowments; Endowment of research; Academic medical centers; San Francisco (Calif.); George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research; University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1913
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 79
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
The Hooper Foundation was the first medical research foundation in the United States incorporated into a university. On Commencement Day, May 14, 1913, Mrs. Sophronia Hooper transferred to the Regents of the University of California certain valuable p roperty to serve as a foundation for an institute of medical research. The institute endowed in memory of her husband, George Williams Hooper, San Francisco lumber merchant and philanthropist, was formally opened on March 7, 1914. Later, the entire Hooper estate became an endowment for the administration of the Hooper Foundation. The Declaration of Trust stated: 'The George Williams Hooper Foundation, which shall be conducted and maintained in San Francisco, California and shall be managed as a department of the University of California.' . . . . 'The net income of the Endowment Fund shall be extended in the maintenance and conduct of said School of Medical Research which shall conduct and carry on investigations in the sciences and arts of hygiene, medicine and surgery; also in the nature and cause of diseases and in the methods of its prevention and treatment, and shall disseminate gratuitously all knowledge so acquired.'" [SOURCE: LaDou, Joseph. "The Hooper Foundation - Special Topics - A History of UCSF." University of California San Francisco Library, https://history.library.ucsf.edu/hooper.html. Accessed 28 Sep. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University