Talk:Boston University School of Public Health

Infobox
I was wondering if anyone had an opinion regarding the infobox that I had added on March 16th? User:Pzavon had deleted it, saying that an infobox only belongs on the main university page. I thought that since each school could have a different founding date, a different provost, a different dean, different student population, different undergrad population, different grad population, different tuition, different logo, and different tuition, that this merited a different infobox. I also don't believe that things like school mascot, color, fight song, etc. be included in the infobox. The point was to show the things that were different from the infobox on the main page. I am afraid that Pzavon deleted it without noticing that it was not a direct cut and paste from the Boston University page, but rather, had many different facts specific to this school. If a consensus is met with Pzavon's decision, then I will leave the infobox off of the article. Cmcnicoll 05:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with you. I see that Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Medical School have infoboxes.  I think they are totally appropriate for schools, which are distinct institutions within the university.  I would sniff around a bit more and see if there is a policy on this we're not finding, though.  bikeable (talk) 20:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I reverted to the page with the infobox. I saw that other universities use the infobox for their individual schools too. Cmcnicoll 09:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm in favor of the infobox. MaynardClark (talk) 16:31, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Norman A. Scotch
Can we develop a page for Norman A. Scotch? I have a draft, but all I have is from audio archives in an oral history project which was defunded after reduced endowment service in the History Department of the University of Nevada, Reno. I do not know whether or not he is still alive (even after extensive inquiry), but here are the NOTES from those three CDs from the oral history program:

Tape 1

Norman Scotch was born in Boston in 1928. His mother was from Lithuania and his father from Russia. He had one brother and one sister. He went to art school at night during high school and has done painting, photography, and sculpting, as well as acting. He was the youngest in his class, failed a lot of his classes in high school, and adopted the role of class clown. His parents were not big on education, but his brother brought books into the home, and Scotch read the encyclopedia. Since retirement he has written screenplays. He graduated from high school in 1946 and went into the army, where he was an occupational counselor at the separation center for soldiers leaving the army after World War II. He had the GI Bill for college and went to Boston University and earned a B.A. in psychology and a master's in sociology. He then earned a Ph.D. in anthropology at Northwestern, where he lived in Anthro House and took cello lessons. He got a teaching job at Washington State. He wanted to do fieldwork in Africa and study hypertension among the Zulus but was turned down for a grant by the Ford Foundation. He was then sponsored by Jerry Stamler from the medical school at Northwestern, who was interested in diet and hypertension in Africans. Scotch received a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service and wrote what he considers to be the first serious paper on medical anthropology. He also discusses coining the word "ethnomedicine." Before going to Africa, Scotch went to study the Washoe Indians in Nevada to gain some fieldwork experience.

Tape 2

While at Northwestern, Scotch taught Sunday school in Glencoe, Illinois, where the rabbi was Edgar Siskin, who had done fieldwork with the Washoe in the late 1930s. Scotch remembers Dresslerville as being like a junkyard with wrecked cars behind every house. He met Hank Pete, Bill Jacobsen, and the James family. Bertha Holbrook was his paid informant at fifty cents an hour, and Scotch took everyone's blood pressure for an epidemiology study. His wife, Frieda, worked with him. They lived in a trailer at the Stewart Indian School. Frieda also did surveys on relocation for the B.I.A. After his fieldwork in Africa, Scotch published thirty papers on Zulu hypertension. At Washington State, Scotch taught anthropology and sociology and wrote his thesis. His hypothesis for the study among the Washoe concerned blood pressure as it relates to social tensions and integration into white society. His study among the Zulu had much better methodology. He was on the cutting edge of cross-cultural studies of hypertension. Scotch received the Russell Sage Fellowship to get a masters in public health at Harvard School of Public Health.

Tape 3

Scotch was offered a job at Harvard, became an assistant professor in public health, and lectured in anthropology. He was thrilled to be on the faculty at Harvard, where he had been turned down twice as a student. A study he did at Harvard resulted in the book Social Stress. At the same time, he taught night courses in anthropology and sociology at Brandeis University and took a course in painting. He then went to Baltimore to teach at Johns Hopkins as associate professor. With Sol Levine, he established a new department there. Scotch received a grant with the Framingham Heart Study to do longitudinal studies on stress and heart disease. Scotch achieved tenure and the rank of full professor at age thirty-eight. He was visiting professor at the University of California at San Diego and worked at the Salk Institute doing studies on alcoholism. He took a position in the medical school at Boston University in 1972 and started a new department, the School of Public Health, where he enjoyed being the administrator. He retired in 1992 but still works one day a week in a community substance-abuse program, Join Together, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He discusses his view of anthropologists then and now.

The sources of the information are:
 * Anita Ernst Watson Ph.D., Shared History Coordinator, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno.
 * Alicia Barber, Ph.D., mobile 775.771.3975, aliciambarber@gmail.com, www.aliciambarber.com

There also are THREE (3) PDFs of a book on 'The Washoe Ethnographers' about the world and work of Norman A. Scotch and his colleagues in Nevada.

The SECTION or CHAPTER on Norm Scotch [Norman A. Scotch] is pages 359-394. There is brief material from him on pages 112, 235, and 253. Scotch, Frieda, 359, 362, 364, 367, 369-370, 372-373, 377-382, 386-387, 389, 392, 394 Scotch, Norman, 112, 235, 253, 359-394 Scotch, Richard, 362, 366 Scotch, Ruth, 367 Scotch, Sam, 359, 361, 364, 366 Scotch, Sarah, 359, 361, 364, 384 Scotch, Steven, 386

I don't know what else to do with this information. What I've saved of my efforts to track down Norman Scotch are kept here: MaynardClark (talk) 16:31, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MaynardClark/NormanAScotch
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MaynardClark/NormanAScotch


 * I think this would be a wonderful page. Postcard Cathy (talk)

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