History of Health Sciences: Finding Aids

Grace Renee Ferguson was born in Brigham City, Utah, on February 26, 1925. A graduate of Box Elder High School (Utah), she attended the University of Utah and the University of Utah School of Medicine. Ferguson graduated from medical school in 1948. She completed a psychiatry residency at New York Hospital, New York City. Harry Neuman Iticovici was born on June 2, 1922, in Romania. He fled Romania during the rise of Hitler at the age of nineteen. He attended school in Beirut, Lebanon, before being accepted into the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1948. Ferguson and Iticovici married in New York City in 1952. Ferguson died on January 12, 2004, Iticovici on May 12, 2015.

The University of Utah Medical Center volunteer services and volunteer auxiliary were established to assist hospital patients. The Volunteer auxiliary consisted primarily of women who volunteered at the hospital but also served as a fundraising group for the hospital. This collection includes auxiliary scrapbooks.