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Chronological list of evenst from 1960 to 1980:

1. Professor F. R. Magarey becomes the eleventh Dean of the Faculty in 1960
2. The Vietnam War Starts in 1962
3. St George Hospital becomes a teaching hospital in 1963
4. Lidcombe Hospital (previously The Rookwood Asylum) becomes a teaching hospital in 1964
5. St Margaret’s Hospital becomes a teaching hospital in obstetrics in 1964
6. The Bosch Building opens in 1965
7. In 1966 Sir John Loewenthal became the twelfth Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
8. The Mater Misericordiae Hospital becomes a teaching hospital in 1966
9. The Parramatta Psychiatric Centre becomes a teaching hospital in 1968
10. The Faculty of Medicine and the Vietnam War
11. The Macquarie Hospital became teaching hospital for psychiatry in 1969
12. David Clarkson Maddison Becomes the Thirteenth Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1972
13. Professor Richard Spencer Butler Gye becomes the Fourteenth Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the First Full-Time Dean in 1974
14. Westmead Hospital opens as a teaching hospital of the Faculty of Medicine in 1978