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R. JANET WATSON, M.D. 1913-1969 We are here today to pay tribute to Janet Watson, a dear friend and colleague, who achieved international recognition for her scientific achievements and more immediately the enduring love and respect of her students, relatives and friends. Janet was born in Fenchow, China, in 1913, of medical missionary parents. Her education through high school was carried out by her mother. That this parental education was excellent is substantiated by her election to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year at C arleton College from which she graduated Summa Cum Laude. Janet travelled east to study medicine and received her Doctor of Medicine from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1938. This was followed by an internship, with residencies in pediatrics and internal medicine at tlie Long Island College Hospital. At this point in her career, she expressed an interest in hematology and was sent to Boston for a post doctoral fellowship in hematology with Dr. George Minot and Dr. William Castle at the Thorndike Laboratories of the Harvard Medical School. Janet returned to the Long Island College of Medicine, which was to become the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, to become an As- sociate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and then achieved similar rank in the Department of Pediatrics. It was here as the author and co- author of almost 50 scientific papers that she received world-wide recognition for her studies of the anemias and pioneered in Sickle Cell Disease. Her vast fund of knowledge, coupled to a probing, scientific mind, with a fine sense of timing, made her a keen and sympathetic clinician. Above all, Janet Watson remained a devoted teacher and friend, whose warmth and charm was felt by all fortunate to come in contact with her. This is never more clearly identified than by her effort to learn the names of every student in her laboratory the first week of class. Graduate students came to her from all over the world and went to their respec- tive lands stimulated and inspired to carry out her teachings. Her universahty will be achieved through her academic progeny. Throughout, she remained humble to her achievements and kept close ties to her mother, her brother Ted, and sisters Edith and Margery. Apart from medicine, she lo ed nature in general, and ornithology in particular. She rarely missed a weekend of hiking with the Brooklyn Bird Club, observing and taking census through the seasons. The year book of this medical school was dedicated to her in 1951 and 1964. A portion of the last dedication best illustrates Janet Watson as the brilliant humanist we all remember: To salute Doctor Janet Watson as a dedicatee of the 1964 Lichonian is to pay tribute to an individual who fulfills without question the criteria which we set forth as our goals. The sensitive and knowing hand of the healer, the keen insight and ever probing mind of the .scientist, the encyclopedic knowledge and earnest concern of the teacher, the patient ear and reassuring voice of the sincere advisor and friend: these are the inspiring qualities which spring from the very nature of this selfless physician and gracious lady whom we have come to know and regard with deep respect and true affection. Eulogy by Austin Fink, M.D.
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In tlie case of drastic change the uneasiness is of course deeper and more lasting. We can never he really prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-es- teem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self- confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling. Eric Hoffer in The Ordeal of Change September of 1966 was the beginning of what was to become a new way of hfe. It was to signify an entrance into another world; one small world within a larger one. Times were changing. Paris designers brought down the waistline and brought up the hemline, giving birth to the mini. Female in- dependence took a giant stride forward as the pill increased in popularity and women gained greater social freedom. The fading beat generation and the man coupled to spawn the Love Child. Flowers were seen on city streets. The hippies soared on LSD to the sweet fragrance of pot and the strains of hard rock. Speed kills. Colors spilled from the turned on mind and psychedelic art was born. Strawberry Fields ushered in 1967. At a time when the term ac- tivism and the country Biafra could not be found in the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, opposition arose to the escalation of the War in Vietnam. Draft card burning and self-immolation became front-page news and glued together the groups that were to form the Peace Movement. Adam Clayton Powell began his Bimini exile and Senator Thomas Dodd bristled in the glare of public exposure. A military court began the court-martial trial of Howard Levy for refusing to instruct Green Berets, while another former Downstate student, Carl Coppolino, failed to convince a Florida court of his innocence in his wife ' s mysterious demise. In early June war flared in the Middle East and like a phosphorus flame, Isreal seared her Arab oppressors. In a country nurturing a peace movement, a general, resembling a character in The King and I, seized the public ' s imagination and Moshe Dayan became an overnight hero. 1967-68 brought a new TV show, Laugh-In, which kept many a medical student away from his books. The Graduate captured the fancy of critics and public alike and became a standard against which subsequent films were judged.
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