MS171: Interview with Margaret Carter McNeese

Authors

Margaret Carter McNeese M.D.
Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Author Biographical Info

The origins of the library date back to 1915, when the Houston Academy of Medicine (HAM) established a small library in downtown Houston to serve the Harris County Medical Society. This Library was combined with the Baylor College of Medicine’s (BCM’s) small library in 1949 to form a centralized collection. As more institutions joined the Texas Medical Center, they also shared the resources of the TMC Library, thereby creating a unique point of collaboration among the institutions of the TMC. A permanent home for this new library was built in the early 1950’s, through the efforts of HAM and BCM. Jesse H. Jones contributed funding for the construction, and in 1954, the approximately 27,000 square foot, three-story “Jesse H. Jones Library Building” was dedicated. By 1975, a new addition to the building had added another 76,000 square feet for the Library’s growing collection. At this time, the Library officially became known as the Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center Library. Today the library uses the shorter operating name of The TMC Library. Find out more at History of the Library from the library website.

Publication Date(s)

April 1, 2017

Language

English

Keywords

University of Texas Health Science center at Houston, UT Medical School, Department of Pediatrics

Abstract

An oral history interview with Margaret Carter McNeese about her career in the Department of Pediatrics at the Univeristy of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School.

Dr. McNeese’s undergraduate years were spent at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. She went to medical school at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where she began her career as a physician and pediatrician. She has been a recipient of many awards, among them the UT Health Science Center at Houston’s President’s Award for Mentoring Women; the Catholic Charity Guild Award for service at the San Jose Clinic, the coveted Benjy Brooks Foundation for Children, Bert Coats Humanitarian Award, the Mary Baldwin College Sesquicentennial Medallion, and the 1999 University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus Award. See more at Texas Medical Center-Women's History Project and its finding aid.

Copyright

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Comments

Interview by: Ruth SoRelle, MPH
Transcription: Danielle Bustillos SoRelle, PhD
Date: November 16, 2016

Recommended Citation

McNeese, Margaret Carter M.D. and Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, "MS171: Interview with Margaret Carter McNeese" (2017). Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project. 22.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/tmc-whp/22