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Collection GraN : Neil A. Grauer Collection

Description

Key

274770

Reference Code Element

GraN

Dates

2002-2021

Extent

56 cubic feet (52 boxes)

Creator

Personal name, Grauer, Neil A.

Administrative/Biographical History

Neil A. Grauer was born in 1947 and grew up in Great Neck, New York. He received his BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1969 and masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 1970. As an undergraduate student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences, he created a cartoon Blue Jay mascot while cartooning for the Hopkins News-Letter. He was a court reporter, feature writer, and cartoonist for the Baltimore News-American from 1970 to 1980, after which he served as the public affairs officer in the Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Attorney General's Office. In 1984, he published "Wits and Sages" which profiles twelve contemporary newspaper columnists, illustrated with his caricatures of the columnists. His "Drugs and the Law" (1988) appeared as part of the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs, and "Medicine and the Law" (1989) appeared in the Encyclopedia of Health. Other books include "Baltimore, Jewel of the Chesapeake: A Contemporary Portrait" (1991), "Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber" (1994), "Lacrosse: Technique and Tradition, The Second Edition of the Bob Scott Classic" (2006), a collaboration with lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala, and "Strong Deeds, Gentle Words: The Truman Semans Story" (2016). From 1992 to 1997, he was senior writer for Vanguard Communications in Washington, D.C. He wrote press releases, op ed articles, editorial memoranda, brochures, and speeches for non-profit environmental organizations, educational coalitions and government agencies devoted to promoting health and human services. He also prepared comprehensive press kits for books published by trade houses and university presses, such as Harvard and Nebraska.
In 1998, he returned to Johns Hopkins as public affairs officer for what then was the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education (SPSBE). In 2002 until his retirement in 2021, he was assistant director of editorial services for Johns Hopkins Medicine's Office of Marketing and Communications. Grauer is author of several Johns Hopkins Medicine history books, “Centuries of Caring: The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Story (2004), "Leading the Way: A History of Johns Hopkins Medicine" (2012), "The Special Field: A History of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins" (2015), and "Old Hands: A History of the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins" (2021). He also was a major contributor to in-house publications, in particular the "Hopkins Medicine Magazine", "Change" and "Dome", writing feature pieces, obituaries and profiles; as well as occasionally speeches during the course of his career at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Scope and Content

The Neil A. Grauer collection covers his tenure as assistant director of editorial services for Johns Hopkins Medicine and document his many publications. Materials include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, clippings, reference material (from online sources as well as copies from the Chesney Medical Archives), interview transcripts, occasional photos, audio cassette interviews and a few digital video disks. Grauer's files for articles and pieces used in the magazine, Hopkins Medicine, were used to produce magazine features, "Alpha Docs", "Class Notes" and "Obituaries". These files include correspondence with faculty and alumni, interview transcripts, reference and other materials. There are also folders pertaining to Hopkins leaders who were subjects of Grauer's articles. Files include material utilized and produced for "Change" - a monthly newsletter for faculty and senior staff of Johns Hopkins Medicine and "CPA News" - the Clinical Practice Association Newsletter which was later replaced with "Best Practices". Grauer's files for articles from Dome, a Hopkins Medicine publication for health system employees (2004-2021) include the “Who/What” back page, with brief paragraphs on faculty achievements. Dome files also include separate stories he wrote for print issues of Dome from 2004 to 2018. Grauer also wrote a feature, “Hopkins History Moments,” for the online version of Dome until 2021. Records related to his many books, include research files, drafts, and oral interview. Grauer wrote institutional histories of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and the departments of neurosurgery and surgery. Also included are files related to his work for CEPAR.

Administration

Archival Arrangement

Materials used in Johns Hopkins Medicine magazine are organized into folders under these headings by date of issue of the magazine. Materials related to his book projects are grouped together by the individual book titles.

Date(s) of Descriptions

2022

Processing Information

The Neil A. Grauer Collection was inventoried by Medical Archives student assistant Lukas Dean in 2022 under the direction of Phoebe Evans Letocha.

Accession

2022-053

2021-022 C

2021-022 B

2021-022 A

2019-042

2017-075

2017-027

2016-063

2013-099

Composed Of

Found 48 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
Moving images	314342		Series	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
Sound recordings	274771	1991-2019	Series	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-01- Dome - Who/Whats	314749	2004-2007	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-02- Dome - Who/Whats	314751	2004; 2008; 2012-2013	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-03- Dome - Who/Whats	314752	2009-2010	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-04- Dome - Who/Whats	314753	2011-2012	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-05- Dome - Who/Whats	314754	2013-2015	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-06- Dome; Hopkins Medicine Magazine	314755	2004-2014	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-07- Hopkins Medicine Magazine	314756	2003-2008	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-08- Hopkins Medicine Magazine; Managed Care Partners; Hopkins on Alert	314757	2006-2009	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-09- Hopkins Medicine Magazine; Assorted Publications	314758	2003-2007	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-10- Hopkins Medicine Magazine	314759	2007-2009	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-11- Hopkins Medicine Magazine	314760	2009-2012	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-12- Hopkins Medicine Magazine	314761	2000-2015	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-13- Hopkins on Alert	314762	2001-2013	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-14- CEPAR	314763	2003-2004	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-15- Facts & Figures; Hopkins on Alert	314764	2004-2005	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-16- Change; CPA News	314765	2003-2005	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-17- Change; CPA News; Leading the Way	314766	1987-2013	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-18- Leading the Way	314767	1985-2012	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-19- Leading the Way	314768	1980-2010	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-20- Leading the Way	314769	1985-2010	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-21- Leading the Way; The Special Field	314770	2009-2016	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-22- The Special Field Neurosurgery Files	314771	1990-2014	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-23- Hopkins Medicine Magazine - Book Reviews; Surgery History Book	314772	1939; 1985-2020	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2017-027-24- Books by Others	314773		Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-01- Hopkins Medicine Magazine	314774	2008-2019	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-02- Facts & Figures; Smallpox, SARS, Anthrax, and Flu	314775	2002-2009	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-03- Bayview News; CPA News	314776	2004-2016	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-04- Hopkins Medicine Magazine; Dome	314777	2007-2018	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-05- Hopkins Medicine Magazine	314778	2019-2020	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-06- Hopkins Medicine Magazine; Surgery History Book	314779	1999-2021	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-07- Dome; Miscellaneous Writings and Research	314780	1956-2019	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-08- Miscellaneous Writings	314781	1980-2019	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-09- Surgery History Book; CEPAR	314782	1962-2019	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-10- Miscellaneous Writings and Research	314783	1982-2019	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-11- Surgery History Book	314784	1904-2020	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-12- Hopkins Medicine Magazine – Book Reviews; The Special Field	314785	1981-2018	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-13- Hopkins Medicine Magazine – Book Reviews	314786	2010-2019	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-14- Surgery History Book; Dome	314787	2001-2021	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-15- JHUSOM Reunions	314788	1937-2018	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-16- Resolutions of the Advisory Board of the Medical Faculty; Dome; Remarks Written for Others	314789	1989-2018	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-17- Change; Dome; Managed Care Partners – Bits, Bytes & Briefs	314790	2002-2012	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-18- Miscellaneous Writings and Research	314791	1997-2017	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-19- Sibley History Book; Advance Obituaries; Email Correspondence	314792	2004-2021	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-20- Facts & Figures	315805	2002-2007	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-21- Miscellaneous Writings and Research	314794	1982-2019	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection
2021-022-22- Hopkins on Alert	314795	2004-2007	Box	CollectionGraN- Neil A. Grauer Collection

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