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

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HOWARD BAKER Medical Director ADMINISTRATION ROBERT LIVINGSTON JOHNSON President of the University

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To study medicine fs a, privilege. , To have attended so excellent a school a$ ours, and to haveybeen students of the distinguished and devoted teachers on the faculty in our four years at Temple Medical School is an additional bounty. We are fortunate in having heed' among the first to benefit from the use of our modern medical center. We are fortunate not to have missed the instruction of such talented physicians and fine persons, as Dr. Esther Grcishcimer, Dr. Edward Chambcrljain, Dr. Richard Kern, and Dr. John Kolmer whose retirement came soon after we passed under their tutelage, and Dr. Dean Collins and Dr. Edwin Gaultj who died shortly after our class heard their lectures.: We are indebted to many for our good fortune. What more valuable gift can a teacher offer than the knowledge he has spent his life acquiring? Mow can we repay Dean Parkinson for devoting a lifetime of energy to; shaping the well-equipped, well-staffed institution Temple Medical School is today? Our debt will not be easily repaid. Thanks! to the generosity of the faculty and benefactors of rein pie Medical School we are entitled to go forth and practice medicine with confidence. Lack of. confidence will hinder our success, as will an excess of it. We-must never doubt our jx wer to do good, but we must not allow smugness to interfere with our aim to improve. If we are to prove worthy of our teachers and our school, our studies in medicine must end only when our lives end. However, our unceasing obligation td seek knowledge ought not be regarded as an objectionable burden. for with it come reward to which we would otherwise not be entitled. The greatest of our rewards is the ability to promote health and happiness in others. Those who £eek material wealth as the greatest reward of a physician will find only frustration. They will envy tfcqse who are wealthier; they will resent the government that taxes them; they will despise those too poor to p y them; they will not share the good reputation - 01 their more generous colleagues; and, alx ve all, they will never know the great joy in giving. The physician whose joy is in seeing patients restored to health and happiness will never lack rewards. Furthermore, if avarice ever deprives the poor and unfortunate of their right to medical care, socialization will deprive us of our right to practice as we choose. Let us give because we wish to give—not because we are compelled to. Only by giving can we repay our debt. Many of us will teach at some time and so repay our teachers. And may we always be willing to offer our support to Temple Medical School in every way. Above all, by giving our patients the best medical care of which we are capable we can each be a credit to Temple's name. If we do not forget that we have been privileged to attend Temple University and that we are indebted to its faculty, 1 am certain that success will attend our careers. 1 offer my thanks to our teachers and best wishes to all of my classmates. Ira Joel Abramson

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WILLIAM N. PARKINSON, M.D., DEAN The year 1959 marks Dr. Parkinson’s thirtieth anniversary as Dean of the medical school. During this period the growth of the staff, facilities, and reputation of Temple Medical School have been remarkable. This record of progress constitutes an enduring monument to Dr. Parkinson’s energy' and efforts. Dr. Parkinson, an honor graduate in medicine at Temple in 1911. has unceasingly contributed to the progress of his alma mater. Surprising in view of the magnitude of Dr. Parkinson’s official duties is his personal interest in every one of his students. Though contacts with him arc limited. Dr. Parkinson knows every one of his students by name and jx ssesses a remarkable knowledge of their academic and extracurricular activities. Our school has been privileged to have had so dynamic, yet so ingenuous a man as Dean during these years. 10