This collection contains photographs, letters, and ephemera related to the life and career of Dr. Waverly M. Cole, an anesthesiologist from Richmond, Virginia. Included in the papers are awards and school diplomas, photographs of Cole while a student at the College of William and Mary and the Medical College of Virginia (MCV), and letters written to Human Rights organizations.
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Waverly M. Cole was born in 1929 and grew up in Blackstone, Virginia. He went to the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1950, and then went to the Medical College of Virginia to study Anesthesiology. He was an anesthesiologist in Richmond and passed away in 2009.
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Acc. 2014.183 was received by Special Collections from the donor via U.S.P.S. on 7/24/2014.
Accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in November 2014.
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