State Veterinarian history

As legislative articles were drafted in 1858 to form the "State Agricultural College and Farm," it was specified that veterinary studies would be included in the subjects of instruction.

1872 - First Class in Veterinary Medicine Offered Nowhere in the world can you find a greater commitment of people helping people than at a land-grant university.

1879 - Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine Officially Founded Evolving from a four-year course in both agriculture and veterinary science, Iowa State’s Veterinary School was officially founded in 1879.

1885 general information book about horses and cattle.

Beginning in 1886, animal health courses were offered to students enrolled in agriculture but not for veterinary degree credit.

1888 – On June 6, Doctor Mark Francis received his formal appointment to the faculty, which marked the real beginning of professional veterinary medicine in Texas.

At the end of the school year (June 1889) the adjoining room became vacant and was assigned to us as a classroom.

The veterinary program moved to more spacious facilities in Old Agricultural Hall in 1893.

1902 – Erection of the Chemistry and Veterinary Building.

1903 – First Veterinary Association in Texas Organized at Fort Worth and Doctor Mark Francis elected president.

At their urging, in 1907, the state legislature finally authorized the establishment of a department of veterinary science.

1908 – Veterinary Hospital Constructed.

Nevertheless, it was not until 1910 that the State Board of Agriculture officially organized the Veterinary Division and selected its head, Doctor Richard P. Lyman.

1912 - Expansion The turn of the century student enrollment, as well as clinical work, began to increase rapidly, bringing with it the subsequent problems of crowded, inadequate teaching facilities and faculty shortages due to insufficient funds.

1916 – School of Veterinary Medicine, with Doctor Mark Francis as the first Dean, opened its doors with 13 students in September.

1918 – Francis Hall built.

The veterinary staff had been more of less disorganized all this time and it was not until 1919 that the veterinary division was fully staffed and back in operation.

1920 – First grads (4) to receive DVM degrees from Texas A&M.

In 1929 limited enrollment of 60 freshmen was announced for the veterinary division thus beginning the gradual increase in higher acceptance standards for freshmen.

1933 - The Expansion of Departments The increasing demand for veterinarians was answered by an increase in applications to veterinary schools.

The loss of information on the history of veterinary advertising has occurred as it has in other subject disciplines . Even as early as 1935, librarians began to recognize the problems of removing ads from journals.

The clinic was further expanded in 1938 and named the Stange Memorial Clinic.

1948 – Doctor Ivan B. Boughton appointed Dean.

At the time it was built, it was described as "the finest in the country and excelled by but few of the European schools." The school became the first in the Midwest to have its own radiation therapy machine, purchased in the early 1950’s.

1953 – Veterinary Medical Hospital built.

1955 – Veterinary Sciences Building built.

The Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory was completed in 1956.

1958 – Public Health Department (the precursor of today’s Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences) is formed.

Electric trocardiographic equipment, which is now gaining popularity with practitioners, was first purchased for the College around 1960.

A major step in improving the school's research capabilities came with the purchase of an electron microscope in 1961.

1963 – Women admitted (on a limited basis) to the DVM professional program.

1966 – First woman (Sonja Oliphant Lee) receives DVM degree from Texas A&M.

1967 – The Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL) established.

1968 – Clinical Pathology Laboratory opens.

1970 – First African American (James L. Courtney) receives DVM degree, after being one of first African American undergraduates, at Texas A&M.

1971 – Office of Continuing Education formed.

1972 – Institute of Comparative Medicine founded.

In 1975, the State Legislature responded to the need for more veterinarians in Oregon and to the need for increasing the opportunities for Oregonians to study veterinary medicine by establishing the College of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State University.

At a cost just over $25 million, the new facility for the College of Veterinary Medicine was completed in 1976.

Magruder Hall, a veterinary teaching facility including a large animal clinical service, was built in 1979.

1980 – The CVMBS begins recognizing its “Outstanding Alumni.”

1981 – Small Animal Hospital building opens.

1985 – Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) formally established.

1987 – Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center founded.

Veterinary Serials: A Union List of Serials Held in Veterinary Collections in Canada, Europe and the United StatesA, produced in 1988 to identify every veterinary-related title published by a pharmaceutical company or pet food company

1990 – Reproductive Services Laboratory expanded.

1991 – The CVMBS celebrates its 75th Anniversary.

1993 – Veterinary Research Building and new Large Animal Hospital constructed at a cost of nearly $40 million.

1994 – Inaugural Veterinary School Open House held.

1999 – First cloned calf.

In 2001, the Oregon Legislature appropriated funding to add a small animal clinical service to the veterinary teaching hospital and to expand the doctor of veterinary medicine program to provide all four years of instruction in Oregon.

2002 – First cloned cat.

2004 – The National Center for Foreign Animal and Zonotic Disease Defense (FAZD) is founded.

2005 – First horse cloned in North America born

2006 – The CVMBS celebrates its 90th Anniversary.

Phase 1 of the project, completed in 2008, provided a new 108-square-foot, state-of-the-art Large Animal Hospital.

2009 – Doctor Eleanor M. Green is named first woman dean of veterinary medicine at Texas A&M.

2011 – Texas A&M joins the Global One Health program, introducing the One Health Initiative to create “One Health, One Medicine, One World.”

2013 – The Center for Organ and Cell Biotechnology (CCOB), a collaboration between the Texas Heart Institute (THI) and the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) led by Doctor Doris Taylor, director of Regenerative Medicine Research at THI, launches.

2014 – During the Ebola outbreak in Dallas, the VET cares for an affected nurse’s dog and helps create protocols for canines potentially exposed to the virus.

2015 – Grand opening of $3.1 million Avian Health Complex, meant to expand the Schubot Center for Avian Health.

2018 – The CVMBS hosts the National Veterinary Scholars Symposium (NVSS), titled “Veterinary Scientists in Global Health Research,” and the National Colloquium for Combined DVM/PhD Biomedical Scientists.