Stanhope Bayne-Jones (1888-1970). Medical Dean, Military Hero, Microbiologist and Epidemiologist, and Medical Historian.

Stanlhope Bayne-Jones (B-J, as he soon came to be known) led a life which included at least fotur or five careers. Any one of them would have satisfied most men. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and unfortunately was orphaned at an early age. He always took pride in the fact that he had been descended from distinguislhed medical forebears, one of whom was Dr. Joseph Jones, a prominent Louisiana physician and medical historian of the south in pre-civil war days. That he was able to aclhieve his ambition of attending Yale College and that he did well there, must have been eminently rewarding to him. He was tremendously appreciative that he had managed to get an education at a distinguished university and he took to it as a duck to water. Choosing medicine as a profession, he decided to become a bacteriologist, a career wlhich was temporarily interrupted by an interval of military service in World War I. Later he became a medlical school administrator, serving as dean of two medical schools, first at Yale and, muclh later, at Cornell. The onset of World War II found him serving as a singularly effective liaison officer between the Army MIedical Corps and civilian clinicians. After his second career as dean, he "retired" to Waslhington as an adviser to the Army Medical Corps and the United States Public Health Service. For two decades his voice there carried the ring of authority. By that time everybody in the medical field knew B-J, and few there were who did not respect him. With remarkable serenity he took the hectic, bureaucratic life of