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CHARLES SCRIVER INTERVIEW First Session – August 22, 2006 1. Family Background and Education NC: It is August 22nd, 2006, and this is Nathaniel Comfort. I’m in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, and we’re doing the oral history interview with Charles Scriver. Would you first just state your full name? CS: Charles Robert Scriver. NC: It’s great to be here, Dr. Scriver. I’m really looking forward to talking with you. What I’d like to do is just begin at the very beginning and have you tell me a little bit about your childhood and background and your parents and what it was like growing up. CS: It’s a very unglamorous history compared to how people move around the world today. I was born in Montreal, I was educated in Montreal, I’ve worked in Montreal, I’m going to die in Montreal. NC: When were you born? CS: I was born November 7th, 1930. I had parents who were both physicians and both on the faculty at McGill University. I was an only child. My mother was thirty-seven when I was born. It was a rather particular influence that, with my mother, who was a working mother in the 1930s, even though she was professional and from a place that didn’t have to work, it was her moral obligation to use the opportunities she had been given to study medicine at McGill University. She was in the first class to tolerate women. She became a role model for women students after that. I don’t think I was aware of it at the time, when I was a child, but later on I became very aware of it. She ended up being Pediatrician in Chief of the Pediatric Service of the Royal Victoria Hospital, which was one of McGill’s teaching hospitals. Endnote 1 My father ended up being Physician-in-Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital and was the person who specifically influenced me to pursue what I loved doing rather than what other people thought I should do. They were both interested in the place of science in medicine, so they had an influence on me. They also helped me understand what a clinician scientist does. Neither of them had quite the opportunities that I had to do things, but they were very definitely quiet influences in the background. I grew up in a three-generation family. My grandparents lived with us, and you heard about my parents, and I was an only child. I had the opportunity to go to a good school. I have kept virtually no connections with the people I graduated from. They went off into business and other things, and they all thought the things that I was interested in were strange and not very interesting. (chuckles) I definitely would be called perhaps a nerd- like person today, and my self-esteem took great leaps and bounds when I found that I could do some athletics that no one else could do. I had the javelin throw record for years in Quebec at the high school level, and I developed a new corner shot in
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