Figure 136.—Curator and staff of Medical Museum, 1962. Left to right, seated: Col. J. W. Sheridan, MSC, USA, H. R. Purtle. Left to right, standing: G. T. Harrell, 1st Lt. W. R. Schafer, MSC, USA, H. E. Demick.
still undergoing renovation without shutting down the Museum which, in 1961, received 685,000 visitors.[1] This attendance reached its peak on 26 February 1962, the day on which Washington welcomed Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., after his triple orbit around the earth, and when more than 14,000 persons visited the Museum.
Scope of the Institute's Activities
In the broad sense, the whole work of the Institute is educational in purpose and character, but some of the activities aimed specifically at education are shown in figures 117 (p. 353) and 125 (p. 367). Among these activities were the
- ↑ Ibid., pp. 234-239.
