Medfield College Medfield College Medfield College is a fictitious college used as the setting for several films by The Walt Disney Company. Among them are the two "Professor Brainard" movies, "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961) and "Son of Flubber" (1963); and the "Dexter Reilly" trilogy: "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" (1969), "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" (1972), and "The Strongest Man in the World" (1975); as well as the remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor", "Flubber" (1997). The town of Medfield, the location of Medfield College, was the setting for another Disney film, "The Shaggy D.A." (1976), implying Medfield was also the
Daniel Brainard Daniel Brainard Daniel Brainard (May 15, 1812 – October 10, 1866) was a Chicago-based surgeon and founder of Rush Medical College. Brainard came to Chicago, in 1836, at the age of 24, and immediately set up a medical practice, soon after which he applied to the Illinois state legislature for a charter for what was to become Rush Medical College. The charter was granted on March 2, 1837, two days before the city of Chicago was incorporated. He chose the name for the school after Benjamin Rush, the only physician with medical training to sign the Declaration of Independence. Brainard