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1950s
}1951:
U.S. President Harry S. Truman dedicated the Chapel of Four Chaplains in the Baptist Temple. When renovations to the Baptist Temple are complete, the hall of arched limestone will become a dedicated arts and culture venue.
1953:
Patients at Temple and its affiliated teaching hospitals were the first to try a new treatment for leukemia called Thio-TEPA. The drug was developed by Harry Shay, director of the Fels Research Institute of Temple University School of Medicine.
1958:
Temple gained an additional campus in Ambler, Pa., by merging its Ambler Junior College with the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women, established in 1911.
1959:
Millard E. Gladfelter was named Temple’s fourth president.