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• Forsyth in the Forefront Medical school to probe its role in county plan for sterilization As World War II wound down in 1944, Dr. C. Nash Herndon of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine described a eugenic sterilization program in Forsyth County using language eerily reminiscent of Nazi experimentation. • Sign This or Else... A young woman made a hard choice, and life has not been peaceful since Nial Cox Ramirez remembers every detail of what happened to her in 1965, even though she has been trying hard to forget. Ramirez had a choice to make, and it was a wrenching decision for an an 18-year-old who had just had her first child. Her options? Sign a form from the Eugenics Board "consenting" to be sterilized, or have welfare payments for her mother and six brothers and sisters cut off. • Benefactor With a Racist Bent Wealthy recluse apparently liked the looks and potential of Bowman Gray's new medical-genetics department The official version of the story from Wake Forest University has long been that a "New York philanthropist with a deep interest in population genetics" made a $100,000 gift of stock to the fledgling Department of Medical Genetics in 1953. • Comes a Stranger Geneticist combed Watauga County, creating and studying family trees Dr. William Allan's research of family trees in Watauga County would become the basis for much of the science that he and others did at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. • ADVOCATE: WF president embraced eugenics movement • CASTRATION: Files suggest that punishment was often the aim
PHOTO - Bowman Gray School of Medicine |  FLASH: NIAL'S STORY 
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