FLOYD CURL DRIVE
Robert Floyd Curl (1897–1971) was a Methodist clergyman for nearly 55 years, serving as pastor, district superintendent, administrator and professor at Perkins School of Theology. As executive secretary of the Southwest Texas Conference, Dr. Curl, on January 24, 1955, presided over the first meeting of trustees for Methodist Hospital. When one of the first streets in the Medical Center was named for him, the only building on the street was Methodist Hospital. When his son, .;Robert F. Curl Jr., was nine years old, his father gave him a chemistry set. The younger Dr. Curl went on to become a professor at Rice University and to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
