Dr. Philip O'Bryan Montgomery arrived at Southwestern Medical School in 1952 to practice and teach pathology. In this photo from the year of his arrival, he and an assistant are is in his laboratory in the prefabricated plywood buildings (often called "the shacks") that constituted the Oak Lawn Avenue campus. Dr. Montgomery would go on to play a pivotal role in the development of UT Southwestern, including building bridges between the medical center and the broader Dallas community.