Contains correspondence, meetings, publications, and reference files on poisoning from Arena's time as director of the Duke Poison Control Center. Correspondence includes files with Eric Comstock of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology regarding projects on which the two organizations collaborated. Meeting records chronicle the establishment of National Poison Prevention Week. A piece of legislation with President Nixon's signature officially acknowledging National Poison Prevention Week is an oversized item included in the 10th Annual National Poison Prevention Week folder. Among the reference files are records on accidental poisoning and successful treatments. Materials date from 1951 to 1984.
Contains publications, reprints, and manuscript materials for articles authored by Arena. Folders in the Manuscripts Materials subseries are arranged alphabetically. Folders in the Publications and Reprints subseries are arranged chronologically. Materials date from 1935 to circa 1989.
Contains biographical materials collected by Arena on Wilburt Cornell Davison. The records include manuscript materials for "Davison of Duke," of which Arena served as editor; correspondence; clippings; publications; tributes; and other biographical materials relating to Davison's life and career. The correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters from Wilburt Cornell Davison, Jay M. Arena, Thomas T. Jones, Talmadge Peele, and Sam Agnello, as well as a scriptorium for Mildred Sherwood (1960). Materials date from 1932 to 1980.
Includes consulting information, correspondence, contracts and agreements, drafts, and correspondence pertaining to publications by Arena, advisory boards Arena participated in, and issues of "Pediatric News" for which Arena wrote a column titled "Then and Now." Materials date from 1931 to 1995.
Includes agreements, certificates and awards, clippings, correspondence, Medical Alumni Weekend records, photographs, press releases, and other materials of a personal nature pertaining to Arena. Materials date from 1931 to 1995.
Contains the professional papers of Jay Morris Arena (1909-1996), professor of pediatrics and community health and director of the Duke Poison Control Center. Types of materials include correspondence, reports, minutes, reprints, newsletters, clippings, programs, certificates, photographs, biographical materials, and manuscript materials. Major correspondents include Wilburt Cornell Davison, Atala Davison, Talmage Peele, Thomas Thweatt Jones and members of the Duke Children's Classic advisory group. Major subjects include Duke University Hospital, pediatrics, accidental poisoning in children, poisoning prevention and safety measures, poisoning case studies, treatment of poisoning, poison control centers, American Academy of Pediatrics, Duke Poison Control Center, and pediatrics in China. Materials range in date from 1931 to 1995.