Women's Cancers Awareness Scarf
Tulane Cancer Center
Introducing the Tulane Cancer Center Ladies' Scarf
The Tulane Cancer Center is proud to introduce our latest premium for donations to the Tulane Cancer Center Research Fund -- our ladies' scarf. Your donation will support our efforts in the translation of laboratory and clinical research into better ways to prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat cancer.
Design
The Tulane Cancer Center scarf is 100% silk, hand-finished, and measures 10" x 48". It is available in two color schemes - Tulane green and blue with gray highlights, and wine and gray with beige highlights. The design of the Tulane Cancer Center scarf incorporates many of the architectural features found in the Hutchinson Memorial Building, currently home to the Tulane University School of Medicine. The scarf's outer, linear border, as well as the inner decorative border are reminiscent of carvings (circa 1930) found today at the LaSalle Street entrances to the Hutchinson Memorial Building.
History
The center panel of the scarf incorporates images of sculpture which adorn a pair of bronze doors now mounted in the Rudolph Matas Medical Library on the second floor of the Hutchinson Memorial Building. Designed in 1929 by Douglas V. Freret of Favrot and Livaudais Architects, these doors were once used as the main entrance to the Hutchinson Memorial Building on Tulane Avenue. They were installed in 1930 during the tenure of Dean C.C. Bass and dismantled in 1963 when the entrance was relocated to the new Burthe Cottam Building addition. The doors were in storage for almost twenty years before they were mounted in the library on either side of the old card catalog in 1981 to honor the memory of Dean Bass. The library has a set of the blue prints for the first three floors of the Hutchinson Memorial Building which includes drawings of the bronze doors as well as the plans for the library itself.
The crawfish, caduceus, and pineapple imagery incorporated into the doors
symbolize Louisiana, medicine, and welcome -- how appropriate!
Our Thanks to You
The Tulane Cancer Center scarf is available as a premium in recognition of a tax-deductible donation of at least $50 to the Tulane Cancer Center Research Fund. Donations can be made by calling:
Keadren Green at the Tulane Cancer Center, (504) 988-6064
or by sending a check (made payable to the Tulane Cancer Center) to Tulane Cancer Center, ATTN: Keadren Green, 1430 Tulane Ave., SL-68, New Orleans, LA 70112
This page is http://www.som.tulane.edu/cancer/scarf.html
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Monday, May 1, 2006
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