Contains personal and professional correspondence, mailing lists and other materials for organizing class reunions, drafts of talks, film, photographs, certificates, and plaques. The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Malcolm P. Tyor. Anne Bradfield Tyor is a correspondent and a subject of correspondence in the class reunion materials. Major subjects include the Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Medical Center, the Division of Gastroenterology, Tyor's extensive involvement in professional networks and organizations in gastroenterology, medical research, alumni of the Duke University School of Medicine, gastroenterologists who maintained professional connections with Malcolm P. Tyor, and reunion materials from members of the Duke University School of Medicine class of 1946. Materials date from 1943 to 2006.
Malcolm P. TyorMalcolm P. Tyor (1923-2003) received degrees from the University of Wisconsin in 1942 and the Duke University School of Medicine in 1946. He served as an intern at the University of Wisconsin General Hospital (1946-1947) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, and as a resident at Bowman Gray School of Medicine (1949-1951) at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1952 to 1954, Tyor was a staff member at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he was involved with research on radioisotope biochemistry. Afterwards, Tyor joined a private gastroenterology practice in Jacksonville, Florida, and then served as director of the Gastroenterology Laboratory and chief of the Radioisotope Service at the VA Hospital in Durham, North Carolina (1955-1962).He joined the faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine in 1955 and became professor of medicine in 1962. Tyor was chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Duke University Medical Center for twenty years (1965-1985). He retired as professor of medicine in 1991.Tyor was active in professional organizations in gastroenterology. He was especially involved in issues of gastroenterology training and education, as well as a broad variety of other professional issues. During the late 1960s he served on the Training and Education Committee of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). He served as president of the AGA from 1981 to 1982.Anne Bradfield TyorAnne Bradfield Tyor (1925-2012) graduated from the Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) in Tallahassee, Florida, and from the Duke University School of Dietetics (1946).Malcolm P. Tyor and Anne Bradfield Tyor were married in 1946. They had four children. Between about 1990 and 2001 they organized several reunions for the 1946 graduating class of the Duke University School of Medicine.
