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Gertrude Dupuy Mudge Fonds
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CA MUA MG4180
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0.09 m of textual records ; 43 photographs; 9 negatives
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(1886-1958)
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Gertrude Mudge was born in 1886 in Montreal. She joined the staff of McGill University in 1915 as a clerk in the Office of the Registrar. In 1919 she was promoted to the Assistant to the Registrar. In 1923 she was transferred to the Faculty of Medicine as Assistant Secretary and remained there until her retirement in 1953. In those years she befriended and encouraged thousands of students and was especially interested in the challenges facing women medical students. After her retirement, Mudge made a 12,000 mile journey across Canada and the United States including Hawaii visiting many of the graduates she had known during her long career. At the 1955 Spring Convocation, she was awarded an honorary M.A. degree in recognition of her long and devoted service to the staff and students of the Faculty of Medicine. She died in Montreal in 1958. The Gertrude Mudge Memorial Fund was later established by members of the medical community.
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The fonds comprises of letters from former students relating anecdotes about Gertrude Mudge (1964-1993), and letters from donors to the Gertrude Mudge Fund (1953). There is a copy of the duties of an assistant secretary, a reprint of an article (1944) by Miss. Mudge in tribute to Dr. James Crawford Simpson (for whom she worked for many years), related correspondence (1944), original draft of her acceptance speech for her honorary degree, and typed speech of Dr. G. Lyman Duff, the Dean of Faculty of Medicine, presenting the honorary degree (1955). Correspondence between Miss Mudge and the University Pension Department (1948-1953), and photocopies of articles concerning her retirement and death (1953-1958) are part of the collection. Non textual records include photographic negatives and prints for articles on Gertrude Mudge, as well as some personal snapshots.
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Donated by Peter Hanlon on May 30, 1994
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Hand-written and typescript