1. Women were 4.5% of the U.S. physician population when Apgar graduated from college. Apgar never met a woman physician until after she graduated from college. This was the wife of Dr. Cecil Drinker (of Drinker respirator), who hired Virginia Apgar as an au pair for the Drinker children. The Drinkers were spending the summer at Woods' Hole.
2. Apgar often used these cards for making notes. One of my great treasures is one of these cards. Apgar scribbled the names and addresses of Scandinavian anesthesiologists whom she thought Dr. Richard Patterson should visit on an upcoming trip to Scandinavia. Dr. Patterson gave the card to me.
3. A proposal for a new method of evaluation of the newborn infant;Apgar;Anesth Arialg,1953
4. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was founded in 1938. In the early 1940s, it became commonly known as the March of Dimes after its popularfund-raising program. Source: Paul JR,1971
5. Some wonder about the motivation of this move. A letter to Apgar's "Aunt Edith," April 22,1959, states herreasoning; it was clearly seen as a great opportunity.