HENRY WALTERS was a Baltimore civic leader and the son of William T. Walters, founder of the Walters Art Gallery. This professorship, originally designated for zoology, was later redirected for a biologist, reflecting the university’s academic priorities.
One of the leading donors to the 1902 Endowment Fund Campaign, Henry Walters also played a part in the relocation of the School of Arts and Sciences from downtown Baltimore to the Homewood campus. In 1905, Mr. Walters endowed the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the School of Medicine, the first such program in the United States.
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