In 1944, Robert Woodruff who succeeded Asa Candler as president of The Coca-Cola Company, offered to underwrite the School of Medicine’s deficit through the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation, which he managed with his brother George. The school’s deficit sometimes ran to a quarter-million dollars annually, and Woodruff’s gift helped develop a full-time faculty and modernize teaching programs.Over the years, Woodruff made gifts that enabled construction of many buildings on campus, including the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, White Hall, Atwood Chemistry Center, and funded renovations and additions to the Anatomy and Physiology Buildings and Emory University Hospital.