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A new finding aid is available for the Bianca Artom Collection. Mrs. Artom and her husband, Dr. Camillo Artom, fled fascist Italy in 1939. They came to Wake Forest, NC where he had been hired as chair of the biochemistry department at Wake Forest College Medical School. He was a world-renowned chemist whose study of lipid metabolism,  atherosclerosis, and the effect of phosphorus in the body was ground-breaking. They moved to Winston-Salem in 1941 when the medical school relocated to partner with North Carolina Baptist Hospital.  Dr. Artom retired in 1961 and died in 1970. Casa Artom was named in honor of the Artoms, and in 1975, Bianca began teaching Italian language and literature at Wake Forest. She taught until 1990, and also served as the summer director for the Casa Artom study abroad program for many years before she died in 1994. The finding aid for her collection is at this link: Bianca Artom Collection.