Kicking off a capital campaign, Baylor College of Medicine announced Wednesday it has received a $35 million gift from Baylor trustee and longtime Houstonian Dan Duncan to kick off the building of a new Baylor-operated clinic in the Texas Medical Center.
Mr. Duncan’s donation will be paid over 10 years and represents about a third of the clinic’s estimated cost. The clinic will be between 250,000 to 350,000 square feet and finished by late 2007 at a cost of about $90 million. The clinic will offer a full range of medical services from cardiology to ophthalmology, checkups, lab tests, and day surgery. The clinic will also allow patients to receive diagnosis and treatment in one place for conditions that cross specialties.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston earlier this month announced the purchase the Hermann Professional Building to use as its outpatient clinic and Methodist Hospital has plans to build such a clinic, a plan that was part of the reason that Baylor and Methodist ended their 50 year relationship earlier this year.
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I am trying to place Dan Duncan in my memory. Is he the young man from Huxley, that graduated from
Shelbyville, Tx. highschool in about 1949? Jack Duncan was my brother in law years ago via Carmen Ann Blankenship and their son Jack Duncan, Jr. Anyone able to answer this?
I want to know if Dan Duncan went to school near Center, TX. or Shelbyville, TX.? My mother Noveline Parker Samford graduated from Center High School in 1952. She then married Jimmy D. Samford from Center, TX. who also graduated there in 1950. Her mother’s name was Bertha Corbell and her grandmother’s name was Samantha Ann (who may have been a Duncan) and married Rube Corbell. Anyone know if we are possibly related? My mother wants to know. Thank you.