Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - P and S Yearbook (New York, NY)

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President of Columbia University Michael I. Sovern, L.L.B., L.L.D. Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine s lr, 3 It ... My warmest congratulations to each and every one of you who have completed four strenuous years in one ofthe finest medical schools in the country. You now have an even more challenging future ahead of you. The years ahead will seem dominated by the explosive pace with which new knowledge and technology become available. Your special responsibility will be to recognize the extent to which knowledge and technology carry with them social ethical, and financial problems. These problems will demand a solution, and throughout your professional lives your lirst concern may be the humanitarian values which you must apply to the solution of these problemsi Henrik H. Bendixen, M.D.

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FACULTY

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Associate Dean for Student Affairs Donald F. Tapley, M.D. Alumni Professor and Senior Deputy Vice President for Health Sciences Dear Class of 1985: In the summer of 1981 the Health Sciences Campus appeared to have insufficient housing for you, yet all were settled in by September 1, 1981. Today Maxwell and Harkness Halls are gone. and Bard Hall remains as the modernization ofthe Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center proceeds. From initial adversity you have exhibited determina- tion. grovdh ofindividual and class personalities. strengths. talents and leadership which initiated a new era ofconstructive activity and exten- sion into the community with involvement long missing on medical school campuses. You have officially represented the College of Physicians and Surgeons at the American Medical Student Association, the New York County Medical Society. the Medical Society of the State of New York. the American Medical Association. the Student National Medical Asso- ciation, the National Association of Minority Medical Educators. the American Medical Women's Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the National Institutes of Health. You have collected awards for outstanding research at the school, city, state and national levels, published classic scientific research. been seen in widely distributed publications, made professional movies and television documentaries, and become missionaries at home and, literally, around the world. All this has been done with an articulate intelligence. quality, enthu- siasm. positivity, ingenuity and diversity which give your class its individuality. From homeless students you have entered into every possible facet of extracurricular activity while maintaining academic excellence. 1 congratulate you on this assumption ofleadership so vital to the future of all of us. 1 thank you for my being a part of it. 1 congratulate you on having done it so very well. Your broad interests. achievements, participation and leadership have been well demon- strated and quite obvious as you have become Physicians and Surgeons. Linda D. Lewis, M.D. Lester M. Geller, Ph.D. Associate Dean for tudent and Curricular Affairs 21