MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1993

Health professionals and hospital managers assembled at Baptist Memorial Hospital Tuesday, hoping to glimpse the future of American health care. In a scene repeated at hundreds of hospitals around the nation, a crowd of about 75 watched an American Hospital Association teleconference previewing President Clinton’s health care reform plan. Clinton is scheduled to unveil the plan formally in a speech tonight, although a draft has been circulating for more than a week.

50 years ago — 1968

Memphis State University will offer a new doctoral program in chemistry this fall under the direction of Dr. Donald Schwartz, former program director of the National Science Foundation.

75 years ago — 1943

Memphian S. Toof Brown has been named to the 15man postwar planning committee of the American Legion at the legion’s 25th annual convention in Omaha.

100 years ago — 1918

Arthur Chevrolet, noted speedway champ and foreign pilot, will compete in the championship automobile races at the Tri-State Fair Saturday.

125 years ago — 1893

The first issue of the Memphis Sunday Times, under the management of F.Y. Anderson and J.R. Williams, will come out in the morning.

Germantown quarterback Forest Nabors (16 with ball) slips the tackle of a Memphis University School defender and scampers for 34 yards in the Red Devils 16-6 victory over the Owls on 23 Sep 1983. The win improved Germantown’s record to 4-0, while MUS dropped to 2-1 in the game played at Germantown. THOMAS BUSLER / THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL