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duck club near Colusa.
He also continued his interest in medicine. In 196667 he served on the ‘“‘Western Nevada and Sierra Counties
Health Facilities Planning Council’? and was a member of
the advisory committee for building the new wing at
Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. Realizing the great need
for improved medical care in the area, in 1968 Dr. Rector
accepted an appointment to the Board of Directors of
Sierra Nevada Memorial-Miners Hospitals. During the
three years on the board, he served as president for the
last two. High on his list of accomplishments were the
creation of Sierra Nevada-Miners Hospitals Foundation
in 1969 — organized to assist both hospitals in meeting
their long-range financial needs and the subsequent raising of sufficient community funds to obtain a $500,000
Hill-Burton federal grant which made it possible to begin S>
construction of a $200,000} addition to Sierra Memorial
Hospital. The new wing was completed in 1971, giving
the area thirty additional acute care beds together with
a badly needed intensive care unit and a first-time ever
pediatric ward — the latter being endowed by Concetta
H. and John Mott Rector.
4. E. William Rector, M.D., usually called Bill, son
of Edwin Meritt Rector and Ruth Richards Rector was
born in Nevada City on October 15, 1912. After attending public schools, Bill took his premedical work at the
University of California, Berkeley and then entered
McGill University School of Medicine where he was
graduated in 1 938 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
He was a member of Zeta Psi and Nu Sigma Nu fraternities.
Having selected surgery as his specialty, Dr. Rector
then entered University of California Hospital in San
Francisco for five years of training — first with an internship in surgery, followed by four years of rotation
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