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LIFE IN THE NEW BUILDING 119.—The evolution of an emblem. A. Sketches showing steps in the development of the idea for the Institute seal by Herman Van Cott, Chief of the Medical Illustration Service.

respective personnel in time of emergency, the Medical Illustration Service proposed that a graphic training aid, based on the 1958 Emergency War Surgery, NATO Handbook, be prepared and circulated (fig. 121). This proposal was approved, and the Illustration Service was asked to develop the necessary 300 overhead projector transparencies, designed to reinforce the Handbook in the instruction of Allied doctors and ancillary medical personnel. In the development of these visual aids, Lt. Col. Kathleen Phillips, ANC, USA, assigned to the Medical Illustration Service, had an important part. Preliminary sets were distributed to major medical installations in the United States and oversea commands by October 1960. After field testing and minor revisions, the set of 304 transparencies was standardized by the Army as an official graphic training aid.