What People Say
Healing through Architecture
“I was in surgery last Saturday until 4 AM; came out and looked at the Clock Tower. It uplifted me. I thought, this is the very best UCSF has done. It is a great design. I know how Parnassus Avenue looked without it….”
Dr. Lewis Messina, University of California San Francisco
“We all derive great pleasure from the clock, which has virtually become the campus's symbol. Indeed, I am fortunate to behold the clock tower each day from my office; It fits in so well that it is hard to remember Parnassus Avenue without it.”
Julius R. Krevens, MD, Chancellor, University of California San Francisco
“Your service to the University of California, San Francisco is appreciated more than we can ever say.”
Francis Sooy, MD, Chancellor
“The Clock Tower has become the symbol of the San Francisco campus and we use pictures and diagrams of it on many of our publications.”
David Layne, Director of Design and Construction, University of California San Francisco
“The brighter, open environment is particularly important for the mental health patients or critically ill, since an outside view permits them to keep better track of day and night.”
Mrs. Moore, Medical Intensive Unit, UC Medical Center Sacramento
“One family claimed the health of their relative, a critical care patient, 'improved within onehalf hour of his move into the Tower from the old facility.” It seems there is a whole new outlook, a new spirit, among the patients, families and staff.'
Penny Marsten, Director Volunteer Service UC Medical Center Sacramento
“I applaud the imagination evident in the long range planning involving the new patient wing.”
Hamilton S. Davis, MD, Chairman, Surgical Sciences, UC Davis Medical Center