Mark your calendars! Head to Level 6 of the library (WHM) on Tuesday, August 13 from noon–1 p.m. for a sweet treat celebrating the library’s namesake, Dr. Leon S. McGoogan. Library staff will be dishing up slices of birthday cake for the UNMC community (while supplies last).
Dr. McGoogan became an obstetrician and delivered around 9,000 babies during his career. He served as chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, from 1950-55, and again from 1961-62. For nearly sixty years he was an instructor in OB/GYN, and in his later years was Senior Consultant to the department.
He served the library for decades and upon his death in 1993, left a substantial fund to endow library operations. Not only did Dr. McGoogan lead the way in fundraising and monetary donations himself, but he also donated his own rare book collection and contributed his knowledge through many lectures on rare books in the collection and on the history of medicine.
Dr. McGoogan was known around Omaha for his distinctive personalized Nebraska license plates, which said “STORK.”
Learn more about Dr. McGoogan in his oral history interview.