Our History
Beginnings
In 1932, Benjamin Bernard Weinstein founded the Spectators Club at Tulane. In the words of B. Bernard Weinstein, the "Spectators Club was a very pretentious literary society of a number of youths, pregnant with fine poetry, literature and waiting to deliver it to the eager ear." This group met in a room in the then discarded athletic dormitory,, around a King Arthur's size round table.
In 1933, B. Bernard Weinstein entered medical school at Tulane and found no teaching on the history of medicine. Therefore, he gathered a group of ten men that called themselves the Mentis Cephalic Society. This group met first on November 13, 1933, when B. Bernard Weinstein delivered the first paper on "The History of Purpura." Each man in rotation presented a paper at similar meetings. The group received early guidance from Dr. Rudolph Matas, Dr. Issac Ivan Lemann, Dr. Meyer Mayerson and Dr. Harold Cummins.
