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snip but too soon came the realization that his year on the continent was about over, and Dr. English had to return to America and Harvard for completion of his fellowship. The passing of another twelve months saw the end of his stay at Harvard: likewise the end of three years of persistent and concentrated psychiatric study. The boy from the farm had come far . . . there were but few laps to go now! Spurgeon English was not only interested in securing further training in psychoanalysis when he returned to Berlin in 1932. he was also very anxious to see Ellen Brown. There was no interrupting call from Harvard this time, and on February 28. 1933, after his psychoanalytic studies had been finished, they were married. One month later the new Mrs. English joined her husband on his return to the United In May, 1933. Dr. English became the newly appointed Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine. 1938 was the momentous year, however, for in that year at the early age of 37. Dr. English was made Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry. At last the long sought goal had been reached. Dr. English’s extra-professional interests are indeed numerous. His musical career began during medical school with lessons in playing the banjo; later the piano accordian fell before his talent. and most recently the bass has commanded his attention. These varied musical abilities are put to practical use when Dr. English joins Dr. Wright and seven other fellow musicians in providing entertainment for the boys in the services at the 17th Locust U.S.O. once each month. Traveling is another of Dr. English's enjoyments, and 1936 saw him and Mrs. English attending the Olympic Games in Berlin, later driving throughout Germany. Austria. Hungary, Switzerland, France and Holland. He also likes amateur photography and a weekly game of golf. And finally his greatest interest is in his family which at the present time boasts of three boys. Wesley (10), O. Spurgeon. Jr. (7). and Carroll (2). Dr. English has contributed to the medical literature with, “Common Neuroses of Children and Adults” (English and Pearson—1937). “Psychosomatic Medicine” (Weiss and English—1943), “The Emotional Problems of Living” (English and Pearson—1945). He has already l een president of the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society and this year is President of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society. For your abilities as a teacher, for giving us a finer appreciation of the mental sufferings of our fellowmen. and finally for a better philosophy of life itself, we the Class of 1945 thank you. Dr. O. Spurgeon English. Knowing you has l een a real privilege. Twlvc
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today had its early beginnings with his membership there in the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. It was in the Fall of 1920 that having been accepted at Jefferson, the tall, lanky. New Englander arrived in the big city of Philadelphia friendless and having the unenviable task of finding a room and getting settled in a strange and lonely city l efore matriculating with his fellow freshmen at Jefferson Medical College. However this enterprising young man soon became a member of Nu Sigma Xu and presently life became the busy but interesting one so typical of medical school. All too soon came the realization that the four fleeting years of the academic study of medi- Graduating day in 1924 was like a platoon that had captured an enemy position but which had gotten too far ahead of its supply lines and was now threatened on its flank . . . the goal had been won but one wondered if the cause had not been lost, for Dr. English had a pulmonary hemmorrhage on the day he was awarded his degree of Doctor of Medicine. An attempt at in-terneship at the Jefferson Hospital was unsuccessful, and a month later Dr. English was a patient at the White Haven Sanatorium. Another year had passed before lie was able to complete his inlerncship and begin once again his career in the Grandest Profession. It was this untimely incident with the recognition of the fact that a well regulated life was his greatest protection, as well as an active interest in the subject that led him to the decision that psychiatry would be his specialty. Freud, and his contemporaries in the field of psychiatry had won another disciple. Post-graduate studies were begun in Boston at the Psychopathic Hospital as an interne during 1927-1928. From here he ventured to the Montifiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in Xew York City to further his study of neurology and psychiatry and its allied sciences, this being climaxed by his being granted a Commonwealth Fund fellowship for three years of study at Harvard University. This marked the first step in Dr. English’s rise in the medical educational world for it was at this time that he became an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Fortune smiled once again on the promising young psychiatrist for soon after news of the Fellowship came an opportunity to travel to Vienna and Berlin for a year’s study of the European approach to his specially. Additional training in the field of psychiatry was not his only gain while in Europe for it was in Berlin that Miss Ellen Brown who was living there at the time with her parents, entered his life story. A common appreciation for old and cultural Berlin and a mutual enjoyment of its entertainments made for a beginning court- cine had come . . . and gone. Eleven
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