Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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SENIOR CLASS jAMhs Otey Burke Pmhlcnt W ' lL LIAM Benjamin Hoover Vici ' -Presiilcnf Jo 4N Thomas Llewellyn Secretary -Treasurer R OBERT Burns McEwen Historian John Paul Jones Exccli iif Council W ' lL LIAM Alton Pennington Honor Council Ca siMiR Francis Jaskiewtcz Rcprcsentatiie X-Ray Morgan Burgess Raiford Rcprcscntatiie Skull and Bones John Alexander Wright, Jr. Athletic Representative SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In the late summer of 1 3 3 we came en edge of Medicine which only those of the sele tivc of those whose minds are veiled in igno would discover here the intricacies, the natun courses fundamental, we learned about Death .mg tiie portals uf tliis our institution seeking that knowl- and inner circle could impart. With the myopic perspec- nce, we thought sometimes with poetic eagerness that we and the very soul of Life. Plunging immediately into the nstead: we saw theni first on the stone slabs, all of them on their backs, none of them moving; and later turned on their faces with noses and faces pressed flatly on the stone tables, awkwardly, not moving nor saying anything. That was our introduction to Medicine. With slow and tedious effort we learned to use them for their purpose, and with ingenuity born of boredom, devised many new uses for parts of them. Time passed, and with a summer inducing partial amnesia at a close, we returned with something of the old eagerness. There were new faces; some of the old ones were missing The work began again, and we learned just how far we could insult the physiological processes of Life until the damage was irrepar- able by drugs. Then the dog died on the table whether at the beginning or middle or end of an experi- ment. But the Other, we saw Him again in the morgue on the slab. He stood the knife well and com- plained not at all when gutted. We moved on seeing them in the hospitals and at the clinic. They were alive and we learned some- thing of what could be done to keep them so, but the application of the therapeutics was disappointing. Whatever it was we anticipated we did not find. So with ever the feeling of hungry men viewing an empty pot, we that year became emotional liars, for if there was anything left of eagerness, it existed only exteriorly. But there was more to be learned. We submerged under new work and irradiated the malignancy of indifference with humor, effective though leaning to the ribald. We had put into this subject more of effort than into anything else in our lives. And if we had not found what we expected, what we had found be- came gradually more satisfying. As the end of this last year draws near, the confusion we felt then fades under the rush of many memories; what bitterness we had loses its unpleasant taste. There were friendships cemented and always the spirit of fellowship and honor prevailed. We remember the many hopes, ambitions, emotions that have been casualties, and the fewer that have matured with the tolerance gleaned from those who have taught us; their unceasing effort in our behalf we remembered and acknowledged in deepest humilitv. HISTORIAN.

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A beloved character who during his brief stay gained the greatest admiration and most humble respect of this Senior Class in Medicine.

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WILLIAM BAYNE ALLEN Kansas City, Missouri Phi Beta Pi B. S. University of Missouri. JOHN MINITREE ANDERSON Hampton, Virginia LEE SCOTT BARKSDALE Petersburg, Virginia Phi Chi B. S. University of Richmond; Gerni.in Club. SCHOOL MEDICINE CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-SEVEN