Cole dies, and his ashes are buried in an urn in the wall of the Medical School building, later removed to the family crypt.

Following the earthquake and fire, the S.F. Department of Public Health sets up emergency hospitals near the Affiliated Colleges. Faculty members request Dean D'Ancona to ask UC President Wheeler to Transfer the first and second years of the medical curriculum to Berkeley , so that a hospital could be established on the Affiliated Colleges site. The first UC Hospital opens in April the following year in the School of Medicine building. D'Ancona is appointed the first super-intendent of the hospital.

James G. Sharp becomes dean of the College of Dentistry.

Margaret Crawford is appointed the first director of nurses at the new UC Hospital. The UC Hospital Training Course for Nurses is authorized. Crawford designs the white-starched mortarboard cap and the square blue and gold pin worn by the first graduates in 1909.

The original S.F. City and County Hospital closes after the second incidence of plague is attributed to rats trapped in the hospital. Patients are moved to the Ingleside Jockey Club Race track and bedded in stalls; operating rooms and other facilities are set up in the grandstands. In April, gasoline is poured over the old hospital building and it burns to the ground.

The College of Pharmacy and the Dental Department have a tug-of-war over a lecture hall. UC President Wheeler decides in favor of Dentistry. The College of Pharmacy embarks on a PR campaign to get more students.

Anthropologist A.L. Krober brings Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Indian tribe, to the campus where he is befriended by surgeon Saxton Pope, who also is an excellent bowman. Ishi, who makes the Anthropology Museum his home, dies in 1916 of tuberculosis.

Herbert C. Moffitt becomes dean of the Medical School. He and Henry Sherman continue the fund drive started by D'Ancona and other faculty for a new UC Hospital.

March... The George Williams Hooper Foundation pens with George Whipple as director. His research on the relationship of the physiology of the liver to blood formation wins him a Nobel Prize in 1934. He becomes dean of the medical School in 1920, and leaves in 1921 to go to the University of Rochester, N.Y., as dean. Whipple is later succeeded by Karl F. Meyer, who during his 33 years concentrates on botulism, psittacosis, plague, rabies and topical diseases. Ralph Audi becomes director in 1959 and for the foundation's research in tropical medicine affiliates with institutions in Malaya and Singapore.

Herbert Mclean Evans becomes chairman of the Anatomy Department. In 1931 he becomes director of the Institute of Experimental Biology, where research with Kathryn Bishop leads to the discovery of Vitamin E. Evans develops research on the pituitary gland that leads to the discovery of animal growth hormone in 1944. Co-workers Miriam Sipson and C.H. Li participate in studies on the oestrus cycle of the rat, an important step in reproductive system studies.

Efforts are renewed to fund a new UC Hospital Building. The old one is considered inadequate, with adverse effect felt in the absence of the pre-clinical courses. Louis Parsons Hobart, architect of Grace Cathedral, California Academy of Sciences and the Steinhart Aquarium, is appointed designer. On May 19, 1916, the cornerstone is laid for the new UC Hospital.

As the new UC Hospital nears completion, World War I breaks out and the faculty from the campus form Base Hospital 30, occupying 16 hotels and a garage, in south-central France. The School of Nursing begins its five-year program toward a baccalaureate, with classes held at Berkeley.

UC's dental students level land for two tennis courts--the first recreational facilities on campus. Other facilities follow--including the cafeteria, called "the Coop," and the bookstore--under the stewardship of Guy S. Millberry '01, School of Dentistry dean since 1914.

The State accredits the first dental hygienists graduated from the school in a course promoted by Millberry in 1918.

Mary Mae Pickering becomes director of the School of Nursing.

The new clinics building is completed and becomes a source of outpatient medical and dental care for the entire community.

Frescoes are painted in Toland Hall by California artist Bernard Zakheim, with the support of Chauncey Leake, who founded the Department of Pharmacology.

March 17... The School of Nursing becomes an independent school with the push of Dean Margaret Tracy. School of Nursing facility won't reach full academic status within the University until 1949.

Robert Langley Porter, dean of the Medical school, 1927-1940, persuades the California State Department of Mental Health to affiliate with the University and build a neuropsychiatric institute. The building is completed in 1942, with Karl Bowman serving as the first director. It becomes incorporated into UCSF in 1973.

The U.S. joins World War II and UCSF's Base Hospital 30 is reactivated. It consists of 28 officers, 70 nurses and 325 enlisted men serving in England and Belgium.

Troy C. Daniels, a member of the campus since 1929, becomes dean of Pharmacy, a post he holds until 1967. He is a major influence in establishing the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1958.

The Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology is created by the Regents and Elizabeth C. Proctor in memory of her husband. The Laboratory of Experimental Oncology is established under the direction of Micheal Shimkin.

An attempt is made by the northern section of the Academic Senate to move the Medical School and the Hooper Foundation back to Berkeley. This is blocked by the faculty led by Herbert Moffitt, former dean of the school. Eighty percent of the faculty vote to remain in S.F.

The Cancer Research Institute is founded. One year later the Laboratory of Radiobiology is established to study supervolt radiation therapy for cancer with the installation of a 70-million volt synchronator.

The Metabolic Research Unit is established as an Organized Research Unit. One year later the Radioactivity Research center is established to study measurement monitoring and storage of radio-chemicals used in the practice of medicine and research.

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