SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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DEDICATION In the past years The Lichonian has been chiefly dedicated to those gentle- men who have acquired Professorships. The Class of l955 has inlpartially dis- regarded this practice and has desired to honor an individual whom they have daily contact with and to whom all merit of such an honor is deserved. The Class of 1955 dedicates this Lichonian to one, a teacher, surgeon, friend and gentleman, RALPH FARNSWORTH HARLOE, MD.

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T 1-IFE L I C I-If O A N 1f .1-'fa 1f awe If ,sinh 1r awa 1r .wa 1f .wa 1f RALPH FARNSWORTH HARLOE Phe., Pham., MD., F.A.c.s. ALPH F. HARLOE was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, on the twenty-third day of November, 1879. He obtained his preliminary education in the public schools of Poughkeepsie and Brooklyn, New York. He continued his studies at the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1899. In 1913 he received his Doctor's Degree in Pharmacy. Dr. Harloe began his career as a medical educator at Long Island College Hospital in 1904, under Doctor Elias H. Bartley, now Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Pediatrics of The Long Island College of Medicine. Up to this time Dr. Harloe was the youngest man ever to have held a position of responsibility in the college. After several years of instructing in chemistry, he was appointed full time instructor, and laboratory director in both inorganic and biological chemistry, later taking over the entire teaching of inorganic chemistry. He also was selected as lecturer in Theoretical and Practical Pharmacy. During the first years of premedical teaching, he conducted the courses in practical physics too. In 1908 he began the study of medicine. Following the end ofx his Sophomore year he was compelled to discontinue his medical studies because of the increase in his teaching duties. Beginning 1916 Columbia University, Department of Extension Teaching, conducted premedical courses at the Polhemus Memorial Clinic. Dr. Harloe continued to give lectures, assigning all labora- tory instruction to assistants, Having been relieved of these duties, he resumed his medical course. In 1918 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The first four years as a medico found him devoted primarily to a special field of septic surgery, particularly confined to the thorax. In 1919 he introduced and de- veloped in Brooklyn, the now much used Closed Technique and Treatment of Empy- ema. He was' appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Long Island College of Medicine, by the late Dr. William Francis Cambell, and he has since been connected with the Department of Surgery. Dr. Harloe is a member of the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society, Kings County Medical Society, New York State Medical Society, American Medical Association, Asso- ciated Physicians of Long Island, Brooklyn Surgical Society, and The American College of Surgeons. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Nassau Lodge, No. 536 F. and A. M., Orient Chapter of R. A. M., Clinton Commandery, K. T., Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Theta Kappa Psi Medical Fraternity. Factual as is this chronicle, it does not include facts even more important, albeit they are not to be found on written records. 10