Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - P and S Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Bottom row, sitting: Robert Beilman, John Bryant, Robert Richie, Roscoe Stuber, Val Wagner. Second row, sitting: James Thorpe, Daniel Benninghoft, Rudolph Klare, Lewis Kurke, Roberta Goldring, Joel Markowitz, Robert Milom, Herman Grossman, James Miller. Third row, standing: Warner Nash, Edgar Housepian, Arthur Larkin, Clayton De Haan, Thurman Givon, Douglas Richards, Richard Michaels, Howard Marraro, Millard Sap- pington, Robert Eddy. Top row, standing: James Neely, Joseph Karas, Arthur Aronoft, John Burnham, Jerold Lowenstein, Clifton Howard, Le Roy McDaniel. 69

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Bottom row, sitting: William Targgart, Franklin Newmark, Jose Lopez, Robert Leper, James Ware, John Williams, Seymour Kalechstein, Edwin Maynard, Jack Oppenheimer. Second row, sitting: Faul Errera, James Golub, Lester Cramer, Herbert Poch, Pierce Smith, Bernard Schoenberg, Julie Schoepf, James Terry, Vera French, Lucile Mahieu, Marvin Zimmerman, John DiJohn, Robert Milch, Jay Meltzer. Third row, standing: Frederick Duhl, Arthur Phinney, Howard Thompson, James Quinn, William Mohler, Jerry Dickinson, Norman Bank, Peter Ways, Stanley Edelman, Haiyim Schwarz, Walter Reister, Marvin Skolnick, Benjamin Wright, Miguel Garcia, Ernest Vondeweghe, Colin McCord. Top row, standing: Joseph Alpers, Eugene Shekitka, William Rotton, Frederick Whit- comb, Pierre de Reeder, Robert Van Hoek, George Edison, Stanley Olicker, Stanley Einhorn, Oscar Krieger. 68

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CLASS OF l953 ELL, the day was here. lt was Monday, September l2th, the day they'd all been waiting for, while plugging those long four years at organic and Zoology. The l2O chosen from some 2,800 applicants were strolling about their new milieu, peaking into the besmoked students' room, and doing some heavy buying at the bookstores. They decided between Gray, Morris and Cunningham, listening intently and often unwisely to upperclassman advice. Indeed, they were all feeling overly proud about their past accomplishments and all ready to dig in for new conquests. For this was the real stuFf now, no more get- ting it second-hand-in Arrowsmith, An Ameri- can Doctor's Odyssey, or The Horse and Buggy Doctor. Now would come the sophisticated trans- formation, the mastery of a new language, the understanding of new concepts, the acquisition of a huge bulk of vital information. Old mis- conceptions would be thrust away. All presumably came with some philosophic animus, influenced by the typical American lib- eral arts education, and tempered by the pull- ing power of the scientific method. Brought with them, therefore, was the desire to understand the basic principles of human organization and function. How does good old Homo Sapiens transform its energy lnutritioni bringing about its activities and responses to stimuli? How does the noblest of primates integrate these activities and responses? What, for example, is behind the often absurb behavior of humankind? They'd learn it all, like the famous song of Detweiler and Shapiro implied. And they'd learn much of the basic stuff in their first year-em- bryology, anatomy, microanatomy, psychiatry, biochemistry and physiology. But woe and begone, the work began to come. What philosophic analysis could be left in tired students memorizing a welter of facts. Their first week seemed like a term at college. They really welcomed the First Year Reception, sponsored by the P and S Club, that first Friday night. They were pleased to hear again how carefully they were chosen. Dean Serevinghaus spoke and pro- vided some interesting statistics. The l29 stu- dents of the Class of i953 received their under- graduate education in 47 colleges and came from 27 states. About one-third were Gotham- ites. Sixty-five of the lO8 males were vets. The average age of civilian students was 20, of vets, 25. There were three foreign students in the class. Backgrounds of the students were interest- ing and diverse. Some had been physics and philosophy maiors. They had been campus illumi- naries, athletic stars, magazine editors and class presidents. Having learned some more about themselves they went back to their iobs, and, excepting a Saturday night out, stayed with it-at least until after the first exam, They did take out enough time to elect their class officers. Quietly, the three best represented colleges put their candidates forward and Old Eli came out best. Pierce Smith and George Cahill were elected president and vice-president, respectively. How 'lil .lulie Schoepf of Vassar became secretary-treasurer is a problem for Mr. Kaltenborn. They were forced to take time out for physi- cal exams, and for X-rays that, for technical reasons, had to be repeated. Some gave their life for science contributing their thyroids to the radio-active iodine experiments of Dr. Sidney Werner. Some gave their lives and blood to science and SiO. They all met Albert after Professor Elftman very graciously introduced them to the 30 stiffer members of the class. The Organizer became a pass word. Chuck or Spinal Noback, as he was vari- ously called, to his face and behind his back, became a favorite, the only complaint being that he might be charming as hell but he dis- couraged rote memorizotion. They became enamored to correlative clinics, especially after Dr. Kneeland's dramatic presentation of a co- arctation of the aorta. All, save Princeton men, became equally enthralled with Dr. Cahill, who covered, among other things, the topic of how Princeton men became birds. ln the correlative lectures they even were able to forget the un- pleasant seating built for dwarfs, and the poor ventilation which hardly bespoke for the health- consciousness of the P and S faculty. Some, at least, found the going unpleasant and rough. For what's intellectual about degluti- tion and micturition that swallowing and urina- tion won't take care of? Some of the doctors- to-be feared being institutionalized. They won-