Medical students enjoy a day at the lake, 1949.

Members of the medical class of 1949 were the first students to spend all four years of study in Birmingham, having begun their educational journey in the fall of 1945.  The seniors spent a day on Lake Guntersville just before final exams as the last group outing for the class.  On June 3, 1949, 31 medical students graduated; there were 24 male and 7 female graduates.  The Tennessee Valley Authority had just created the lake in Marshall and Jackson Counties with the completion of Guntersville Dam in 1939.

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