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FEB.
22, 2002 | The first black graduate of the University
of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College
of Medicine visited the college yesterday to
see old friends and reminisce.
Attending integrated classes but dining in a
segregated area of the campus cafeteria, Edith Irby
Jones, M.D., (Class of 1952) was the first
African-American to be admitted to and graduate from
the College of Medicine at UAMS. She became the first
woman to lead the National Medical Association, the
organization of African-American physicians. Today she
is an assistant professor at Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston.
Dr. Jones told a newspaper reporter, “Nobody ever
told me I had to be white to succeed, just that I had
to do my best and that that was true for everybody.”
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Edith
Irby Jones, M.D., reminisces about her days as a student
in the UAMS College of Medicine. Richard P. Wheeler, M.D.,
executive
associate dean for academic affairs,
listens. (Amy Theriac)
Past
meets present: The first black graduate of the UAMS
College of Medicine, Edith Irby Jones, M.D., (Class of
1952) met the college’s first black dean, E. Albert
Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., at a reception at the college
Feb. 21. (Amy Theriac)
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