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“Minutes, University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees,” Dec. 20, 1963, p. 9, fol. “Trustees, Minutes, Agenda, 1963 (Sept.-Dec.);” “Minutes, Board of Trustees,” Jan. 15, 1964, p. 5, in fol. “Trustees, Minutes, Agenda, 1964 (Jan.-June),” both in Box “Minutes of Meetings of Full Board and Committee, 1962-1964,” Board of Trustees Papers, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA [hereafter, Trustees, UM/A]. Two Board members were absent from the vote to hire Dr. Soutter. 2
John W. Lederle to Lamar Soutter, June 30, 1970, Box 45, fol. 550, “Medical School Dean, 19621970,” John W. Lederle Collection [hereafter, Lederle], UM/A; [Robert McCartney] Oral History Interview with John W. Lederle, 1975, typescript fragment, pp. 52-53, in John Stockwell Papers, UM/W. Original in Box 1, fol. 14, Oral History Program Interview Transcripts [hereafter, Oral History Collection], UM/A. Of course, as Nicholas Soutter also wrote me, he was probably glad to be rid of his previous nickname, “Lamey.” Personal communication from Nicholas Soutter to Ellen More, April 3, 2010; Rudyard Kipling, “Bertran and Bimi,” accessed at http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/ on April 4, 2010. 3
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“Lamar” was the family name of his paternal grandmother, Charlotte A. (Lamar) Soutter, whose father, Gazaway Bugg Lamar of Savannah, Georgia, was among the earliest Confederates to sign a loyalty oath to the Union. Elizabeth Soutter Schwarzer, personal communication, Sept. 12, 2008. “Robert Soutter,” Harvard College Class of 1894, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report (Norwood, MA: Plimpton Press, 1919), pp. 409-410, 609-610; graduation profile, Robert Soutter Collection, Harvard University Archives, Cambridge MA. I wish to express my great appreciation to Gael Evans, Judith M. Nordberg, and Robert Vander Hart, for research materials made available to me from their work on the website, “Lamar Soutter, M.D.(1909-1996): Founding Dean of UMMS,” accessed at http://library.umassmed.edu/soutter/. Many of the biographical details that follow are heavily dependent on the excellent research and writing of these three librarians. I am also indebted to the late Mrs. Mary Bigelow Soutter, Mr. Nicholas Soutter, Esq., his daughter, Elizabeth Soutter Schwarzer, and Dr. H. Brownell Wheeler for numerous kindnesses, including answers to email queries, phone conversations, the willingness to be interviewed, and the generosity to share crucial materials with me for the sake of this history. “Lamar Soutter, M.D.” website, ibid; St. Paul’s School website, accessed at http://www.sps.edu/ podium/default.aspx?t=112277 on April 18, 2010. 5
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Lamar Soutter, M.D., “Canoeing: The Mackenzie and Rat Rivers,” n.p., in “Autobiography” (c. 1980), unpublished typescript transcribed by Elizabeth Soutter Schwarzer, Nov. 2009, in Lamar Soutter Papers, University of Massachusetts Medical School Archives, Worcester, Massachusetts [hereafter, Soutter, UM/W]. I am most grateful to Elizabeth Soutter Schwarzer for donating a copy of the manuscript to the UMass Medical School Archives. 57