Dr. Robert Bay
Date:
Tuesday, March 1, 1955
Recipient of the 1955 Schweitzer Medal for outstanding contributions to animal welfare.
Dr. Robert Bay, a veterinarian in charge of a colony of 500 experimental beagles, whose humane treatment of the animals exemplifies the purpose for which the Medal was struck.*
*Dr. Bay later resigned after being refused permission by new management to end the suffering of a beagle with 24 fractures.