- AMEDD MUSEUM FOUNDATION
February 1, 2021
The Foundation was recently honored to present Corporal Maurice Zolkower with a Combat Medic statue on the occasion of his hundredth birthday, February 6, 2021. Known as Murray, CPL Zolkower was born in New York City, graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1938, and was in his first year of pharmacy school at Columbia University when the princely sum of $15/month enticed him into joining the New York National Guard, B Co, 114th Infantry. […]
June 9, 2019
On 3 May 2019, the Foundation bade a fond farewell to Grant Writer, Samantha Popejoy at the Quarterly Board meeting. Beginning her work at the Museum as a Graduate Intern in Museum Science, Samantha quickly made herself at home getting to know the staff and the Museum. Her bright personality, quick grasp, and innovative ideas were soon to have positive impacts across the Museum. As her Internship came to a close, the Foundation employed her […]
June 9, 2019
On 3 May 2019, the Foundation Board celebrated the 2018 Neel Award winner at a ceremony in conjunction with the Quarterly Board meeting. Vanessa M. Schulman won the prize for her essay entitled “J. J. Woodward, the Philadelphia Centennial, and Medical Imaging in Nineteenth Century America.” Board Chairman, Dan Perugini, made the award presentation on behalf of the Foundation. In addition to the plaque, the award includes a $1000 prize and the article will be […]
April 4, 2019
The recent passing of COL(Ret) Basil Pruitt, Jr and COL (Ret) Beth LaNoue inspired the AMEDD Museum Foundation executive committee to establish memorial funds in honor of them both. The funds donated in honor of Dr. Pruitt will be used for an exhibit of the advances in medicine flowing from his work at the Army’s Institute for Surgical Research, and the committee’s donations in honor of Beth LaNoue fund will be used to support ongoing […]