students, 26 men and two women, arrived there were 15 faculty members. By the time the first class graduated in 1955 there were 43 faculty members. The UCLA Medical Center opened in 1955. Under Warren's leadership, the school grew steadily, adding Schools of Dentistry, Nursing, and Public Health. Against some influential opposition, Warren established his medical school on the UCLA campus rather than in another part of the city. He strove to integrate not only the structures but the faculty with other departments of the university. He fostered the development of a major biomedical library as both a tangible and intellectual link between the life sciences and the health sciences. Warren became Vice Chancellor, Health Services in 1962. From 1963 to 1965 he served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy and later Lyndon B. Johnson on mental retardation. Returning to UCLA in 1965, he became professor emeritus, a position he held until his death in 1981. His first wife Viola died in 1963 and on July 18, 1970 he married Gertrude Turner Hubberty. In 1971, Warren was awarded the Enrico Fermi Award. His citation read: He died on July 26, 1981 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. He was survived by his wife and three children. His papers are in the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. The Stafford L. Warren Medal is named in his honor and is awarded to the top graduating medical student from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA each year. Notes Bibliography 1896 births 1981 deaths United States Army personnel of World War II Enrico Fermi Award recipients Harvard University alumni Manhattan Project people People from Colfax County, New Mexico American radiologists Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army) University of California, Berkeley alumni David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA faculty University of California, San Francisco alumni University of Rochester faculty Johns Hopkins University alumni American nuclear medicine physicians United States Army Medical Corps officers United States Army colonels Physicians from New Mexico Radiation health effects researchers