Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Roger W. Sevy, Ph.D.. M.D., Dean Dr. Sevy in 1960 - Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology Hugo Dunlap Smith. M.D.. F.A.A.P. Associate Oean for Curriculum Now and Then M. Prince Brigham, M.D., D.Sc., F.A.C.S Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs 'WDiltt 21

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1962. providing housing for student nurses and other students of the Health Sciences Center. The School of Dentistry was founded as the Philadelphia Dental College in 1863 and became part of Temple University in 1907. The School of Pharmacy was founded in 1901, and in 1932 a four-year program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy was initiated. The School of Oral Hygiene was opened in 1921 and the School of Medical Technology was begun in 1939. In 1966, the College of Allied Health Professions was established offering baccalaureate courses in medical technology, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and health records administration. As the Health Sciences Center became an actuality, plans for expansion continued. In 1963 the Medical Research Building was completed. This nine-story building, located between the Old Medical School Building and Kresge Science Hall, houses the department of medical physics, physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, microbiology and anatomy. The Fels Research Institute and the Agnes Barr Chase Surgical Research Foundation are also located in the Medical Research Building. Plans were made for three additional buildings - a Basic Sciences Building for the medical school, a Continuing Education Building and a Clinical Teaching Hospital. In 1968 the Kresge Science Hall was completed, providing classrooms, a library and student activities space. The spacious Student Union-Continuing Education Building, located next to the Skin and Cancer Hospital, was opened within the past few years and provides classrooms utilized by both students and graduate physicians, areas for study and relaxation, a book store and a cafeteria. Work was also begun on the third projected building, the Clinical Sciences Teaching Building. The area behind the Out-Patient Building was razed, but construction was never actually begun due to design and financial difficulties. Finances have been a big problem at Temple University Hospital during the Seventies. In 1975. the Institution's creditors refused to advance further monies and closing seemed imminent. The crisis was resolved however when the State of Pennsylvania agreed to underwrite the hospital's S25.000.000 debt. In doing so, the State assumed ownership of Temple University Hospital which would then be loaned to Temple University for the sum of SI.00 per year. From their small beginnings, the Samaritan Hospital and Temple University School of Medicine have grown into today's Health Sciences Center. Over the years and through many difficulties, the Hospital and School of Medicine have endured and flourished; they have remained true to the ideals of their founder, providing needed medical care to the community and offering medical education to large numbers of men and women. The Temple University Health Sciences Center of today is a lasting tribute to Russell Conwell. for it is indeed the realization of a vision of one man; an idea materialized; an ambition embodied. Skin and Cancer Hospital Mrdual Kiuau BmUm Construction of the Medical Research Building a» » The Pit - excavation site of the still unbuilt new hospital Parkinson Pavilion Directory 20

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