Committee members included Edward H. Cary, III – the grandson of Foundation founder Dr. Edward H. Cary – Ruth Collins Altshuler, Jan Hart Black, Mary McDermott Cook, David R. Corrigan, Harlan R. Crow, Thomas M. Dunning, Robert A. Estrada, Nancy Strauss Halbreich, Paul W. Harris, Lyda Hill, James R. Huffines, Mrs. Eugene McDermott, Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, Caren H. Prothro, Carolyn Perot Rathjen, Catherine M. Rose, Lizzie Horchow Routman, Robert B. Rowling and Emmitt J. Smith, III.
Inspiring Words
“It was the Foundation that stepped up and said we’ve got to be a provider, a catalyst.”
Mayor Mike Rawlings
“We’ve got just the brightest people – this is a real shining star.”
Caren Prothro
“Six Nobel Laureates – my gosh a’mighty – nobody has all that!”
Lyda Hill
“Southwestern Medical Foundation is in large part responsible for the enormous success of Dallas as a medical center.”
Ruth Altshuler
“You can’t be a world-class city such as Dallas is today without a teaching hospital and a medical center of the quality that we have.”
Harlan Crow
“Research drives the evolution and development of health care and medicine.”
Bill Solomon
“There were a few key people like Don Seldin who said this institution is going to stand for excellence. It will grow for sure – it will do all the things that it has to do, but as it does, it will stand for quality. That was part of the founding and the culture of the institution, and it persisted through the decades.”
Kern Wildenthal, MD, PhD
“As we know, medical scientific research begins with the individuals who are trained and dedicated to doing that research and have the resources available to them to carry out that research. That’s what’s been so vital about Southwestern Medical Foundation.”
Bob Estrada
“Without the generosity of the people of this community, UT Southwestern would not be one of the top-rated medical schools in America.”
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
“Curiosity. What would the medical school be without curious people?”
Margaret McDermott
“I feel very strongly that people in academic clinical departments should, among other things, have a research program of presumably high dignity.”
Donald Seldin, MD
“Sometimes I’m in the position of just dreaming about doing excellent research. Because of Southwestern Medical Foundation, it’s been possible to actually achieve what I want to.”
Bruce Beutler, MD, Nobel Laureate
“We’re gonna build a medical school – we’re gonna build a great medical school.”
Tom Dunning
“You have to give them the opportunity to make their discoveries. You have to make it possible so that they know that they won’t be limited – that they’re limited only by their imagination and skill.”
Michael Brown, MD, Nobel Laureate
‘‘The Medical Center was not a creation of the city, but of the citizens of Dallas seeing a need for their community.”
Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, President, UT Southwestern
”We are lastingly grateful to the founders, donors and all the other past and present visionaries who have made such an impact on our community.”
Kathleen M. Gibson, President and CEO, Southwestern Medical Foundation