 Dr. Method was known as the “Dean of Negro Physicians”, training several students in the practice of medicine. He employed several people in the area as well as the best Negro surgeons of the city.
Alpha Hospital expanded to a social agency, thus the Alpha Hospital Association was formed with Dr. William Method as Chief of Staff. The hospital Association conducted a nurses’ training school which was “the only place in the city where any girl of good moral character and education can complete a course in nurse’s training”.
Dr. Method also helped to establish the Spring St. YMCA at 5th and Spring, now known as the Eldon W. Ward YMCA on Woodland Avenue.
He was a trustee of St. Paul A.M.E. Church; a founder of the Columbus Ohio Chapter of the National Medical Association; a Knight Templar of St. Marks Lodge of Masons, a member of the Subordinate and Uniform Rank Knights of the Pythias; Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; Columbus Urban League; N.A.A.C.P., The Business Men’s Club of the All Negro Spring Street YMCA; Columbus Academy of Medicine; Franklin County Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Society.
Dr. William Arthur Method died on January, 16 1936
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