Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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SHOFNER, NATHANIEL S1-:1-ioiw, BA., M.D. B 9 H, A K K MT. PLEASANT, TENN . Dramatic Club '14-'19g President Dramatic Club '16-'19: Glee Club' '16-'1Sg Manager Glee Club '17-'1S3 Owl Clubg Commodore Club: Honor Committee '14-'15g Commodore Rep- resentative 'M-'15p President Y. M. C. A. '18- '19, Commodore Board '17-'1Sg Publication Board '18-'19g Calumet Club: 'Editor-in-Chief Hustler '17-'1S: South Campus Editor of Commodore '18-'19, THOMAS, DANIEL REI-:s, M.D. E N. IIIX4 l LAFAYETTE, COLO. Honor Committee Class '17-'18i Secretary and Treasurer Class '1S-'19: Witherspoon Club: Commodore Club. H'E.1iBERfr, '1?iMimeg M'.'D. ' AM, 1 A ' FR'AN14LiN,' TENN., - Q, ' Owl Club '15-'IGQQQ Commodore ,Board f9I6'.: Commodore Representative '15- 1,65:fpgn-1-191. lenzic Council 1'6'-'17-f-183 'Commodore Club, '18-'19s Witherspoon I-Club '19, . l A . ...l VJALTER, ,EARIQE CHNS., M. D., IPX l ROCK PORT, Mo. V E Witherspoon Club. WHITE, DAPHNEY EARL, MDL . or B Ir, qw K X MONTlCELLO, ARK. ' Commodore Band '15-516-'1-75 Honorary Medi cal Fraternity. K if A

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MCMILLION, jo!-IN DIBRELL, M.D. E N, fl? X MARTIN, TENN. Varsity Baseball '15-'18: Secretary and Treasurer Class '16-'1T: Owl Clubg Glee Club '17-'18-'19g Commodore Representative '17-'lSg Witherspoon Club '18-'19g Commo- dore Clubg Commodore Representative '18- '19. .AN MCNEIL, JAMES PERSINGER, M.D. fl? X, fb K K JOHNSON CITY, TENN. Witherspoon Club: President Senior Classg Honor Committee '15-'16-'17-'18. Y xx x ROBINSON, GUILFORD ALLEN, M.D. 111 B H, T' K X WESTERN cRovE, ARK. Honor Committee '15-'1Gg Vvitherspoon Clubg Pan-Hellenic Council '18-'19g Treas. Honorary Medical Fraternity, Phi Kappa. Chi. MILAM, ERNEST BOWLING, M.D. E N, KP X JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Dramatic Club '14-'15-'16-'17g Glee Club '17-'18-'19g Vice-President Freshman Med. Classg President Sophomore Classg Masonic uildg Y. M. C. A. Cabinet South Campus '16-'18-'1Sg Gen. Sec'y Y. M. C. A. South Campus '185 President Glee Club '17-'18. MOORE, JOHN NORTON, M.D., A.B. if X, 2 A E TRENTON, TENN. Honor Committee '18-'l9.

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Page twenty-nine was fffmessewreer-A-We fefeeeer-Waimea-eww-1 ras 4 . - - l 4fffx ?'5 f'L'15if2' ti A fe, 923 -4' - h e M KJ 2556? S, Q H .B A:afamwwmpwmaama.aQ.ma:msfsmuemwfmma'.am Q WW ,gf .JM 2 'We 4 KqZxw1'ws,,.,-,-:m,,.,m.,:,..as ,. H, , W t History of the Senior Medical Class was a cloudy morning for maybe the sun just couldn't shine through the smokey when we got off the car ' at the. South Campus. We were soon greeted by Sam, who wanted to haul our trunks. He was a psy- ? QQ cholofist. I-Ie called us Doctor,,' and at once we became iniiated with importance and handed over our trunk checks. L14 53 We settled the room-mate and boarding-house question, which wound up the preliminaries. Then we were ready for the real encounter. The first morning of work we went up to the anatomy laboratory. Here we met the person with whom we were to spend four hours a day for five months, in such intimate association that we were to know him better than we had ever known anyone before, and who was seldom out of our thoughts during the whole year. Even now if a memory of him, or her, seems to be growing dim we turn to our anatomy book to freshen it again. This favored individua-l was our stiff, or, as the professors say, cadaver. This year was a distressingly novel revelation of the meaning of the word work. Freshmen in medical school are never hazed nowg upperclassmen look on them with a kind of condescending pity. We ate with an open fgreasyl book by our plateg we slept with a box of bones by our bed, and an anatomy book under our pillow. We never went anywhere. Our Thanksgiving holiday was as accurately so called as is chocolate blanc mange, afternoon matinees, or white shoe- blacking. We all cut class one afternoon to see The Birth of a Nation, and are still regretting the consequences. When the year was over we wondered how we did it, and felt a deep compassion for the poor misguided pre meds. Our Sophomore year was somewhat of an improvement. We got a Sunday off occasionally, and it is said that one of our members went to a dance. We began to feel our knowledge, too. We delighted in explaining things to the Freshmen, and we called the gristle in our steak ligamentum nuchae, just as the Freshmen on the West Campus ask us to pass the sodium chloride. It was this year that the Angel of Discord, class politics, was brought in among us, as a complete surprise to a little less than half. It continued to disturb the harmony at election time for two years, with the usual line of complaints from the faction whose plans did not materialize. We hope that other classes will not make the same mistake. In the Sophomore year we lost Dudenbostelle, but acquired Freiburg. The Junior year started out with two new men. These were Shofner, who had been doing teaching and laboratory work here, and Caire, from Tulane. We are probably a shade better off for having these two men. Excepting the above-mentioned politics, one of the big questions before us this year was summer school, to enable us to finish sooner and get into the army. We made quite an agitation to obtain the change, and sent petitions to the faculty,