WSU’s late president leaves big legacy in Spokane
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(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Lorraine Nelson
The late Elson S. Floyd was a frequent visitor to Spokane during the last year of his life.
He had this notion that Washington State University could start a medical school, and it wasn’t long before he persuaded others that WSU really was perfectly capable of doing such a thing, and furthermore, that it was WSU’s mission as the state’s land grant university to do so.